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Oleksii Kaplenko

@oleksiikaplenko

Senior AI Engineer: production LLM agents, RAG, evals and fine-tuning. Led an AI SaaS build. ML since 2017, 4 US patents, Claude Certified Architect.

Czechia
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What I'm looking for

Fully remote, hands-on role on production LLM and agentic systems: multi-agent orchestration, tool calling, RAG, LLM evals and guardrails, fine-tuning and serving open-weight models. Contractor/B2B preferred, employment also welcome. Based in Europe (CET/EET), happy to overlap with UK and US East Coast hours.

Senior AI/ML Engineer specialising in LLM-based and agentic systems, with commercial machine-learning experience since 2017. Today I mostly build LLM systems in production: multi-agent and tool-calling architectures, RAG, model routing across Claude, GPT and Gemini (LiteLLM), LLM evaluation (golden datasets, LLM-as-a-judge, drift and regression checks, CI eval gates), observability (Langfuse, OpenTelemetry) and guardrails.

At SaneAI I led the build of an AI strategic-planning SaaS for enterprises from scratch: architecture, backend (Python, FastAPI), frontend (React, TypeScript), database (Supabase/PostgreSQL) and CI/CD. I designed the LLM layer with cross-vendor fallback and versioned prompts, built agentic tool calling that lets users edit the plan through chat with guardrails and permission-scoped access, created the evaluation pipeline used as a release gate, and built scheduled autonomous agents with human-in-the-loop approval and AI cost caps. I also set up an AI harness for the SDLC (Claude Code subagents, skills, hooks, MCP servers) that turned the team AI-driven.

At TSGS, a proprietary trading firm, I architected a multi-agent portfolio-management system (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen) where agents for risk, sentiment and signal generation reach a joint decision, fine-tuned open-weight LLMs with LoRA and served them with vLLM and SGLang, and ran production trading strategies with deep reinforcement learning (PPO).

At Digis I built an LLM customer-support assistant with LangChain and RAG over vector databases that cut manual support workload by 40%, a GPT marketing-content generator, and computer-vision features (image retouching, AR try-on, generative background replacement). At Thermo Fisher Scientific I led deep-learning projects for electron microscopy (super-resolution, segmentation, 3D reconstruction), which resulted in 4 granted US patents as first author.

Master's in AI and Machine Learning Systems (Brno University of Technology). Claude Certified Architect (Anthropic, 904/1000). English C1, Czech C1, Ukrainian native.

Looking for: fully remote, hands-on work on LLM agents, RAG, LLM evaluation, fine-tuning and inference; contractor/B2B preferred, employment also possible.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

SA

Lead AI Engineer

SaneAI

Jul 2025 - Oct 2026 (1 year 3 months)

Led the build of an AI strategic-planning SaaS from scratch: architecture, backend, frontend, CI/CD. LLM layer with Claude, GPT and Gemini via LiteLLM with fallback; agentic tool calling with guardrails; eval pipeline (golden sets, LLM-as-a-judge, drift checks) as a release gate; autonomous agents with human approval; AI harness (Claude Code, MCP) that made the team AI-driven.

TS

ML Engineer / Quantitative Researcher

TSGS

Dec 2023 - Jul 2025 (1 year 7 months)

Proprietary trading firm. Built a multi-agent portfolio-management system (LangGraph, CrewAI) where risk, sentiment and signal agents reach a joint decision. Fine-tuned open-weight LLMs with LoRA and served them with vLLM/SGLang to analyse news, filings and analyst reports. Ran production trading strategies with deep reinforcement learning (PPO) and price forecasting on GCP.

DI

AI Engineer

Digis

Aug 2020 - Dec 2023 (3 years 4 months)

Outsourcing company. Led an LLM customer-support assistant (OpenAI GPT, LangChain, RAG over Pinecone/FAISS/Qdrant) that cut manual support workload by 40%. Shipped a GPT marketing-content generator that replaced a copywriting team, an image retouching tool (-50% manual work), AR jewellery try-on and generative background replacement for an e-commerce platform.

TS

Data Scientist

May 2017 - Jul 2020 (3 years 2 months)

Fortune 500 company. Led deep learning projects for electron microscopy and spectroscopy, from research prototypes to production: 1D signal classification, image super-resolution, semantic segmentation and 3D CT reconstruction. Designed a reinforcement-learning optimiser for automated hardware alignment. Original research resulted in 4 granted US patents (first author).

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

AN

Anthropic

Claude Certified Architect - Foundations

Jul 2026 ยท Expires Jul 2027

BT

Brno University of Technology

Bachelor's and Master's degrees, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Systems

2013 - 2018

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