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.

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.
What I'm looking for
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Anthropic
Claude Certified Architect - Foundations
Jul 2026 ยท Expires Jul 2027
Brno University of Technology
Bachelor's and Master's degrees, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Systems
2013 - 2018
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Amazon API Gateway
AWS Glue
Selenium
D3.js
Plotly.js
Amazon EC2
Google Cloud Platform
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon S3
AWS Step Functions
Bedrock
GitLab
Kubernetes
GitLab CI
NumPy
Pandas
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Sentry
Django
Tailwind CSS
Slack
OpenCV
FFMPEG
Terraform
AWS CloudFormation
Jira
React
JavaScript
Python
TensorFlow
PyTorch
scikit-learn
Keras
NLTK
Kafka
Flask
FastAPI
OpenTelemetry
Linux
Gemini
Amazon Kinesis
Google Cloud Pub/Sub
AWS Lambda
Amazon RDS
Vercel
TypeScript
Git
Docker
Google BigQuery
Amazon Athena
SQL
Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Cloud Run
Amazon SageMaker
XGBoost
SciPy
Hugging Face
Amazon ECR
Supabase
Qdrant
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Weaviate
ChromaDB
Playwright
AutoGen
Pydantic
Pinecone
CrewAI
Ray
LiteLLM
vLLM
Anthropic Claude API
Langfuse
Vite
Vitest
Haystack
ONNX Runtime
Bash
pgvector
Faiss
LangGraph
LangSmith
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
SGLang
Claude Code
MediaPipe
Diffusers
Matplotlib
Claude
OpenAI
Availability
Location
Portfolio
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