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Automation specialist and AI developer helping businesses grow through smart systems, AI-powered tooling, and data-driven strategy. Experienced in building end-to-end automation workflows, AI creative tooling, and client delivery pipelines. Strong collaborator with hands-on ability to develop internal tools and custom GPTs, streamline operations, and ship web and content distribution solutions. Comfortable taking ownership quickly, delegating tasks, and maintaining quality through testing and structured QA.…Automation specialist and AI developer helping businesses grow through smart systems, AI-powered tooling, and data-driven strategy. Experienced in building end-to-end automation workflows, AI creative tooling, and client delivery pipelines. Strong collaborator with hands-on ability to develop internal tools and custom GPTs, streamline operations, and ship web and content distribution solutions. Comfortable taking ownership quickly, delegating tasks, and maintaining quality through testing and structured QA.

Kārlis Smalkais

AI Developer, Programmer, Web Developer, +1

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Automation specialist and AI developer helping businesses grow through smart systems, AI-powered tooling, and data-driven strategy. Experienced in building end-to-end automation workflows, AI creative tooling, and client delivery pipelines. Strong collaborator with hands-on ability to develop internal tools and custom GPTs, streamline operations, and ship web and content distribution solutions. Comfortable taking ownership quickly, delegating tasks, and maintaining quality through testing and structured QA.…Automation specialist and AI developer helping businesses grow through smart systems, AI-powered tooling, and data-driven strategy. Experienced in building end-to-end automation workflows, AI creative tooling, and client delivery pipelines. Strong collaborator with hands-on ability to develop internal tools and custom GPTs, streamline operations, and ship web and content distribution solutions. Comfortable taking ownership quickly, delegating tasks, and maintaining quality through testing and structured QA.

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Automation specialist and AI developer helping businesses grow through smart systems, AI-powered tooling, and data-driven strategy. Experienced in building end-to-end automation workflows, AI creative tooling, and client delivery pipelines.

Strong collaborator with hands-on ability to develop internal tools and custom GPTs, streamline operations, and ship web and content distribution solutions. Comfortable taking ownership quickly, delegating tasks, and maintaining quality through testing and structured QA.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Beginner

Language

Latvian

Fluent

English

Intermediate

Work Experience

AI Development Intern at Sharpify

May 1, 2026 - June 1, 2026

One-month remote internship focused on AI-powered ad creative tooling, client web delivery, and internal workflow development. Built upon an existing team lead AI ad generator using Claude Code for application logic and Pollinations AI for image generation. Delivered a client website independently and, within two weeks, took on a supervisory role: delegating tasks, reviewing colleagues’ output, and performing quality assurance. Achievements included: extending an AI ad generator to produce full ad creatives (copy + images); engineering two custom GPTs adopted by the team to standardize creative output and reduce per-ad production time; delivering a client website on brief and on schedule; supervising parallel AI ad generator development by providing technical guidance to meet team standards.

Automation Developer (Contract) at Private Client (PropTech Pool)

March 1, 2025 - July 1, 2025

Remote contract to build and manage automation infrastructure and content operations for PropTech Pool, a property technology newsletter. Delivered automation across newsletter distribution, subscriber management, social media distribution, and visual production. Built and deployed newsletter distribution and subscriber management workflows to reduce manual effort and improve publishing consistency. Developed LinkedIn content pipelines that generated short article summaries and newsletter digests for social posting. Designed visual identity and recurring branded assets for newsletter issues and contributed to editorial strategy and content theme direction.

Automation Specialist at Aekora.com

January 1, 2025 - August 1, 2025

Remote role at an AI agency identifying manual bottlenecks and building automation solutions for internal operations using no-code and low-code tools. Built an automated email outreach pipeline that handled writing and sending outreach emails, eliminating multiple hours of manual work per cycle. Engineered an internal data scraping pipeline that collected 30 targeted records, replacing time-consuming manual research. Contributed to automation strategy and technical scoping by collaborating with the team to prioritize high-impact operational improvements.

IT & Systems Intern at Ogre Technical School

January 1, 2021 - February 1, 2022

School placement internship covering IT and office technology responsibilities, including hardware testing and documentation, web development, equipment commissioning, administrative systems support, and e-commerce development. Unboxed, configured, and tested office hardware (e.g., webcams, document scanners, paper cutters, laminators) before deployment. Produced official documents and structured Excel spreadsheets for record keeping. Developed a functional clothing e-commerce store on WordPress including product setup, layout, and basic store configuration.

Web Developer at Personal Project (Latvia educational courses website)

January 1, 2021 - May 1, 2021

Self-initiated WordPress web project created to address a perceived gap in the Latvian market for online educational course services. Implemented UX planning, theme customization, front-end development, and deployment. Integrated the LearnDash LMS plugin for structured course delivery, lesson management, and student progress tracking. Project was ultimately discontinued due to insufficient upfront market validation and increased hosting/plugin maintenance costs.