Etienne Ferrandi
AI Engineer
4+ years exp
5+ years ML exp
1+ project
Active 12 days ago
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Overview
AI engineer with experience building conversational agents, RAG pipelines, and document ingestion workflows including OCR. Worked on fine-tuning and adapting foundation models for domain data, and also has prior full-stack engineering experience with PHP and MySQL.
Technical skills
Databases
Qdrant
MySQL• 4y+
AI/ML
Hybrid Search
LangChain
LangGraph
RAG
vLLM
NER• 5y+
Encoder-Decoder
Fine-tuning
Llama
LLM
Transformers
AWS Bedrock
DevOps
AWS
Azure• 1 project
Timeline
AI Engineer
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Middle
SMADE
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Full-Time
Developed a conversational agent for a medical kit tracking product, implementing RAG and retrieval-based workflows. Built document ingestion pipelines including PDF parsing and OCR, and integrated LLM API calls using AWS Bedrock. Deployed an agent workflow with Bedrock Agentcore and worked on time-series forecasting models plus anomaly detection for tracking data.
AWS Bedrock
LLM
LLM Engineer
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Middle
UAR Persée
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Full-Time
Used LLM-driven data mining to extract structured information from unstructured bibliographic sources running on self-hosted GPU infrastructure. Implemented RAG pipelines to structure knowledge using a vector database and added constraint-based generation with Pydantic. Fine-tuned foundation models including mT5 (encoder-decoder) and Llama 3.1 8B with the Transformers library.
Pydantic
Encoder-Decoder
Fine-tuning
Llama
Transformers
LLMsince 2024
Consultant AI
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Middle
Datactivist
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Full-Time
Supported and managed generative AI projects, from requirements through implementation. Built a RAG conversational assistant using chunking and vector integration of XML data to help public officials. Delivered OCR/HTR-based extraction for archival documents and generated XML/EAD encodings for archival collections, alongside project support for research tooling initiatives.
Full Stack Developer
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Middle
Janalis
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Full-Time
Redesigned an intranet for Sources Chrétiennes and modernized the application stack. Upgraded to PHP 8.1 and performed a secure MySQL database migration. Modernized the Biblindex website, implemented user registration/authentication and password management, built Twig-based email notification handling, and managed permission and profile settings using an admin interface.
PHP
MySQL
Research Studies Engineer
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Middle
IRHT - Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes
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Full-Time
Translated researchers’ functional requirements for the SourcEncyMe project and helped convert them into technical specifications. Implemented text encoding using XML/TEI standards. Developed deep learning models for named entity recognition to support humanities and social science research workflows.
NER