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AI Engineering Lead and PhD researcher in AI/ML, certified in Claude by Anthropic. I design and ship production systems built around Claude: agents, RAG pipelines, and automations that actually make it to deployment.

Over the past 7 years I've helped more than 20 companies put AI into production across the US, Europe, and the Middle East. I've led engineering teams at startups large and small, and I bring a consistent track record as a high performer on the work I take on.

I post regularly on Medium, X, and YouTube on the latest in AI, ML, and tech, which keeps me on top of how fast the field moves, with an audience of over 10,000 across platforms. I share this work publicly partly because teaching a thing is the best test of whether you understand it.

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What I build

  • RAG chatbots and agents over your documents, PDFs, Notion, and knowledge bases
  • LLM fine-tuning on your domain data
  • Workflow automations that replace 40 to 80% of manual operations
  • Solution architecture, so you commit to the right stack the first time
  • Recovery work on stalled or underperforming AI projects
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Proof on Upwork

Verified reviews and track record from real clients, on Upwork:

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Job Success

$10K+

Earned

8

Jobs

240

Hours

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Rating

★★★★★
Amazing service, very detail oriented, highly collaborative and super fast. Will highly recommend Sebastian!
Solution architecture for an AI app
★★★★★
Sebastian was easy to work with, communicated clearly, and picked up the project requirements quickly. He was dependable, worked efficiently, and delivered strong work for our AI language learning project.
AI for language learning
★★★★★
Sebastian performed at a high level and achieved the project on time and with great results.
RapidFire AI: summary report feature
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Experience & certifications

7+ years putting AI into production for 20+ companies across the US, Europe and the Middle East.

Engineering Team Lead · AI Tech Solutions

Lead cross-functional AI and full-stack teams; architect LangChain agent pipelines and ship production AI across multiple platforms.

2024 to present

AI Technology Leader · Recognos Romania

Fine-tuned SLMs and LLMs (Azure ML, Unsloth), built RAG and Graph-RAG (Neo4j) pipelines from unstructured documents, and shipped custom MCP servers.

2024 to 2025

Full-Stack Developer · Biscuit Beacon

Rebuilt the product from WordPress to a React app (hooks, context, Redux) with strong SEO and performance.

2023

Certifications

10verified certifications, including Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect and DeepLearning.AI specializations.

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Education

  • PhD in AI (Computer Engineering & Mathematics)Universitat Rovira i Virgili · 2024 to 2028
  • MSc, Computer Security Engineering & Artificial IntelligenceUniversitat Rovira i Virgili
  • MBA, Business Administration & ManagementBabeș-Bolyai University · 2023 to 2025
  • BEng, Automation & Computer ScienceTechnical University of Cluj-Napoca · 2018 to 2022

Research

Radiogenomics for glioblastoma survival prediction, Journal of Digital Imaging (Springer Nature, 2025).

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Open source

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Start a project

Send over the project and I'll reply the same day with a plan, a clarifying question, or an honest pass.

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