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Senior AI Engineer | LangGraph Agents & RAG | Python, LLM Evals, MCP, FastAPI

Brasov, Romania
Only remote
Brasov, Romania
Only remote

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About me

AI engineer with 13+ years of production software. I build LangGraph agents with human approval gates, hybrid RAG that refuses rather than guesses, and evals that fail CI loudly. Freelance through my Romanian company, 100% remote, CET hours, English.

Senior AI Engineer building production agentic AI and RAG systems in Python, backed by 13+ years of shipping production software.

Agentic AI / LangGraph
Multi-agent systems on LangGraph: typed state schemas with reducers, conditional edges, intent routing, Send fan-out, durable checkpoints (SQLite, PostgreSQL) and human-in-the-loop interrupt/resume review gates. Tool calling, MCP servers, deterministic workflow spines where an LLM is not needed. Migrated a 60+ pipeline codebase from LlamaIndex to LangGraph.

RAG & Retrieval
Hybrid search: dense embeddings + BM25 fused by reciprocal rank fusion, cross-encoder reranking, faithfulness and grounding gates. Vector databases: LanceDB, Qdrant, pgvector. FastEmbed, semantic search, chunking strategies.

LLM Evaluation & Observability
Golden datasets, LLM-as-judge with planted-defect self-tests, DeepEval, promptfoo, adversarial prompt testing, PII leakage guards, token usage and cost tracking per call, prompt caching optimisation. LangSmith tracing.

LLMs
OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, DeepSeek, AWS Bedrock. Prompt engineering, structured output, JSON schema constraints.

Python Backend
Python 3.12+, async/await, FastAPI, Starlette, pytest, pytest-asyncio, ruff, mypy, pandas, scikit-learn, Prophet.

Platform & DevOps
Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, AWS, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, SonarCloud, Flyway, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Cloudflare Workers, systemd/Linux VPS operations.

Software Engineering
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Go, GraphQL, gRPC, NATS, Protobuf, microservices, event-driven architecture, ADRs, code review, TDD.

Recent projects
- US home-services company (2026, contract): rebuilt a provider-audit agent as one Python service in shadow mode against the live agent (261 tests, full event parity) on Kubernetes/ArgoCD; built a hybrid-search RAG index over the engineering estate with a golden retrieval-eval suite.
- Own production platform: 60+ LangGraph pipelines on a VPS with durable review gates, evals and cost tracking.
- Vitrifi (2022-2026): architected a multi-tenant SaaS on Go microservices, GraphQL, gRPC and NATS for UK wholesale broadband.

100% remote, CET timezone, English. EU B2B invoicing.

Experience

Professional experience5 - 10 years
Freelancer since2019

Languages

EnglishFluent

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