Darius Gros

Machine Learning / AI Engineer

Salary / Daily rate

Nantes, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

PythonLLMs / Large language modelsData EngineeringAI EngineerAWSA/B TestingData AnalysisNLP / Natural Language ProcessingTest Driven DevelopmentHexagonal ArchitectureNumPyReactpandasTensorFlowRedisData VisualizationBig DataDeep LearningAIscikit-learnKerasPyTorchNeo4jSQL databasesData ScienceScalaMachine LearningAWS LambdaGoogle BigQueryPySparkCopilotGoogle Cloud PlatformGitData EngineerGoogle AnalyticsJiraSQLitePostgreSQLn8nAmazon EC2WebsitesFastAPIMachine Learning EngineerMySQLConfluenceKanbanScrum

Languages

English (Native)French (Native)

About me

Intro

AI/ML engineer with 5 years of experience across data engineering, applied machine learning, and product development. Comfortable taking ownership end-to-end from architecture and backend pipelines (Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL) to LLM/RAG systems (LangGraph, LangChain, HuggingFace). I work best on small, autonomous teams shipping real products, with a strong bias toward hexagonal architecture, testability, and pragmatic delivery

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Work experience

Ourkat TechnologiesFreelance

Feb 2026 - Present

9 months

AI / Full-Stack Engineer

Feb 2026 - Present

9 months

AI products and custom software for SMEs and mid-market companies Designed and built a complete RAG pipeline (production MVP): FastAPI backend, PostgreSQL with pgvector, React frontend, LangGraph orchestration with hexagonal architecture. • Developed modular AI components: document segmentation, semantic enrichment, classification, eligibility, evaluation, and structured generation modules. • Deployed document recognition agents with iterative review loops; planned roadmap includes fine-tuning,observability, and LLM cost/latency optimization. • Delivered Next.js 15 / TypeScript / Tailwind v4 web projects for external clients, including motion design withFramer Motion.

Co-founder & Lead AI/Backend: Korus

Feb 2026 - Apr 2026

3 months

Real-time event augmentation product, sold B2B to production agencies and brands. • Designed and built a real-time backend (FastAPI, WebSocket, PostgreSQL) deployed on a sovereign EU VPS; zero US cloud dependency, fully GDPR-compliant. • Built an automated NLP filtering pipeline (HuggingFace, Detoxify, French sentiment models) for live audience message moderation at events of 100 to 5,000 participants. • Developed the participant web app as a Next.js PWA accessible via QR code — no install, all smartphones supported. • Electron Desktop Application for light technician (back end to Electron via SSE), light CC web frontend for users via QR code

AI Consultant — Document Automation

Confidential SME ClientFreelance

Dec 2025 - Feb 2026

3 months

Nantes, France

• Deployed a hybrid parsing + LLM system to convert technical PDF reports into structured Excel deliverables. • Set up the full infrastructure: VPS, Docker, LLM API integration, MFA/OTP authentication, GDPR compliance. • Shipped a web interface adopted in daily operations by non-technical business teams. Manual processing fully automated; ~30% reduction in LLM API costs through prompt and routing optimization.

Decathlon

Sep 2021 - Nov 2025

4 years 3 months

Lille, France

Data Engineer (Confirmed) — Pricing & Geomarketing

Jul 2023 - Nov 2025

2 years 5 months

Lille, France

• Industrialized Spark / Delta Lake pipelines with end-to-end CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Airflow, Databricks). • Translated business needs into data solutions, coordinating across two business directions and the central data platform team. • Led legacy stack migrations, drove cloud cost optimization, and mentored junior data engineers. Deployment time reduced from 2h to 17 min (−85%); ~20% savings on cloud infrastructure.

Junior Data Engineer / Data Scientist

Sep 2021 - Jul 2023

1 year 11 months

Lille, France

• Built ETL pipelines for product analytics and marketing; developed time-series forecasting models and ran A/B tests. • Delivered decision-support dashboards (Tableau, Power BI) used by business stakeholders.


Education

University of Lille 1 Sciences and Technology

Master's degree, Data Science

2021 - 2023

1 year 9 months

– Master MIASHS Lille – Master of Statistics & Informatics

Wingate University

Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics

2016 - 2020

4 years 1 month

– Minor, Economics


Licenses & certifications

SAS Programming 1: Essentials

Issued: –

Python & R in Data Science

Issued: –

Deep Learning A-Z: Hands-On Artificial Neural Networks

Issued: Dec 2020

Machine Learning A-Z: Hands-On

Issued: Sep 2020

Python Advanced: Objected-Oriented Programming Masterclass

Issued: May 2020

Portfolio

Korus: Sovereign real-time NLP pipeline for an interactive event wall

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