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AI Engineering

AI Engineering

Stop Demoing. Start Shipping.

Every week on ‘prototyping’ is a week competitors spend capturing market. I build production AI — RAG that answers in under a second, agents customers trust, and LLM integration that survives real traffic.

8+ yrs
Production experience
$49/hr
Flat rate · no minimums
48 hr
Time to start

The AI Engineering Stack

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Sound Familiar?

The problems I solve every week.

Your RAG Won’t Scale

Works with 10 docs. Falls apart at 10,000 — hallucinations, latency spikes, no evaluation pipeline.

LLM Integration Is a Maze

Which model? How to cache? What about fallbacks? $5K API bills and still not production-ready.

MLOps Is an Afterthought

Models trained on laptops, deployed by copy-paste, monitored — if at all — by prayer.

Results That Speak

Real metrics from real engagements.

92%
Retrieval accuracy (RAG test set)
<800ms
p50 response (2× faster)
5,000+/wk
Production queries from launch

How I Work

From first call to production — no bureaucracy, no hand-offs.

1

Free audit & scope

We start with a short call. I dig into your current setup, find the real bottleneck, and scope the work with an honest timeline — no commitment, no pitch.

2

Start within 48 hours

Once scope is agreed I start shipping — flat $49/hr, no retainer, no minimum. You see progress from day one, tracked transparently.

3

Ship & handoff

Production-grade systems with runbooks, monitoring and knowledge transfer. You own everything and you’re never left stranded.

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Backlog 3
DevOps
CI/CD pipeline audit & gap analysis
R Jul 16
2
Planning
Kubernetes cluster upgrade path
Y Jul 18
1
Cloud
Cloud cost baseline report
R Jul 20
In Progress 2
DevOps
GitHub Actions pipeline — build + test stages
R Jul 15
4
IaC
Terraform modules for staging env
R Jul 16
2
Review 2
DevOps
ArgoCD deploy config — client review
Y Jul 14
6
Docs
Runbook v1 — handoff documentation
R Jul 15
3
Done ✓ 3
Cloud
AWS right-sizing — 40% cost cut shipped
R Jul 12
5
DevOps
Docker images optimised (−60% size)
R Jul 11
2
Security
Secrets scanning + pre-commit hooks
Y Jul 10
1
Every project gets a shared board. Track progress, leave comments, add tasks — full transparency, both sides, in real time.

What Clients Say

★★★★★

“Raphael rebuilt our entire deploy pipeline in three weeks. We went from dreading releases to shipping daily. Worth every dollar of the $49.”

D
D.K.
VP Engineering, B2B SaaS
★★★★★

“Our RAG prototype was stuck for months. He got it to production — fast, accurate, and it held up in front of our investors on demo day.”

S
S.M.
CTO, Health-tech startup
★★★★★

“He cut our AWS bill by 40% without breaking a single thing. The engagement paid for itself in the first month.”

J
J.R.
Head of Platform, E-commerce

Frequently Asked Questions

What’s your approach to RAG?

Hybrid retrieval — dense vectors + sparse BM25 with re-ranking. Chunking tuned to your content, query rewriting for ambiguity, and a real evaluation pipeline before production. Caching, fallbacks and monitoring from day one.

Which LLM should I use?

Depends on the use case. Customer-facing → GPT-4o or Claude for quality with a fast fallback. Internal → open-source (Llama 3, Mistral) on your own infra. I build the switching layer so you’re never locked in.

How do you control AI cost?

Caching at every level — prompt, response, semantic. Smart model routing sends simple queries to cheaper models. Batch non-real-time work. Most teams cut 50-70% without losing quality.

Ready to fix it?

Book a free 30-minute call. No pitch — just a straight conversation about what you need.

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