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Joe L.

AI Engineer | AI Agents | n8n | RAG | Fullstack Developer

๐Ÿซก Top-Tier Professionalism, Communication, and Reliability ๐Ÿฅ‡ The Top 1% of Talent - Expert Vetted - 100% Job Success โšก AI Engineer combining AI speed with 12 years of production experience to deliver premium code that ships fast and scales effortlessly. Currently have availability for 1 additional project as of July 2026. ๐—œ๐˜€ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ท๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—น๐˜๐˜€? ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฝ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—บ ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜? ๐—œ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜€๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜†. Many teams bolt an API call onto existing software and call it AI. Then real users arrive: costs balloon, outputs hallucinate, and there's no visibility into why. Production AI requires a different discipline โ€” grounding, observability, systematic evaluation โ€” not just an API call to a thin LLM wrapper. That discipline is what I'll bring to your team. I can tell you exactly what type of AI tooling you require for your specific solution. I can help you determine the technical feasibility of your AI project ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ you spend valuable time and money pursuing it. I can teach your team how to use agentic development to build software quickly and confidently. In short, I'm here to make sure you and your team get what you need from AI technology. ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ โœ… AI Pipeline Architecture: hybrid RAG, AI agents and agentic tool-calling loops (LangGraph), structured output enforcement, prompt injection defense, PII redaction, quantization โœ… AI Evaluation: LLM-as-judge frameworks, test set design, deterministic checkers, RAGAS retrieval metrics, regression tracking โœ… AI Optimization: prompt engineering, retrieval tuning, context compression (LLMLingua), caching strategy, cost/latency tradeoff analysis, experiment tracking (MLflow) โœ… Workflow Automation: n8n, Make, Zapier, scheduled and event-driven orchestration, agentic pipelines โœ… Computer Vision & Model Training: custom image-to-image model training and fine-tuning, PyTorch, GPU cloud training on RunPod, dataset curation and evaluation โœ… Advisory & Thought Leadership: AI feasibility analysis, subject-matter expertise, technical white papers, original research for leadership teams โœ… Observability: OpenTelemetry tracing, Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, Loki logging, Jaeger โœ… LLM Providers & Models: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, self-hosted GGUF quantized models, Llama Guard โœ… Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Redux, SSE/WebSocket streaming โœ… Backend: Python (FastAPI, Celery), Node.js, Go โœ… Databases: PostgreSQL, Pinecone, Qdrant, Redis, MongoDB, Firebase โœ… Cloud & DevOps: AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—˜๐˜…๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜ - A pipeline you can trust in production โ€” not just one that demos well. I instrument observability, build eval frameworks, and optimize systematically so you know what's working, what isn't, and why. - Full-stack ownership โ€” I can own the AI layer, the API, and the frontend. No coordination tax between specialists; one engineer who sees the whole system, a fullstack developer who owns the AI layer, the API, and the frontend. - Communication that matches your pace โ€” async-first with structured updates, or high-touch with regular syncs. I adapt to how your team works, not the other way around. - Clarity from ambiguity โ€” I have built production systems from partially-defined requirements many times. If you know the problem but not the solution, that's exactly the engagement I'm built for. ๐Ÿ“ž ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐˜'๐˜€ ๐—ง๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ธ If your AI project needs to actually work โ€” reliably, efficiently, and at a cost that makes sense โ€” let's talk. Schedule a no-obligation call to discuss your project in detail.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธMinneapolis, United States$95/hr100% JSS5.00 (6)Since Aug 2017
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MRR
$2,214
๐ŸŒ#19.7K/363K
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ#4,363/54.3K
Recent Earnings
$13,286
๐ŸŒ#19.7K/363K
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Total Earnings
$102K
๐ŸŒ#35.6K/363K
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ#7,382/54.3K
Avg. Per Project
$8,521
๐ŸŒ#18.0K/363K
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ#3,027/54.3K
Recent Projects
7
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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ#24.3K/54.3K
Total Projects
12
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World Skill Rankings
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AI SecurityTop 14%
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#28White Paper
#103PyTorch
#142Golang
#170Computer Vision
#177AI Model Integration
#187Deep Learning
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#567AI Chatbot
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#915Artificial Intelligence
#1,038AI Agent Development
#1,292TypeScript
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#2,240Python
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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธUnited States Skill Rankings
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Stable DiffusionTop 17%
#7AI Security
#14White Paper
#16Golang
#24PyTorch
#26AI Model Integration
#31Computer Vision
#32Deep Learning
#64AI Chatbot
#65n8n
#67Generative AI
#72AI Consulting
#88AI Development
#137Machine Learning
#142TypeScript
#160AI Agent Development
#202Artificial Intelligence
#222API Integration
#291React
#380Python
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