
Hugo Le Belzic
Forward Deployed AI Engineer | LLM Agents & Evals
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Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
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About me
Intro
Former Applied AI Engineer at Mistral AI and first Forward Deployed Engineer at H Company. I build production-grade LLM and agent systems end to end: problem framing, RAG, MCP/tool integration, evaluation, APIs and deployment. Now independent and available immediately. Built Mistral's internal LLM/agent evaluation framework; delivered agentic use cases in production among finance and logistics compagnies.
Work experience
Forward Deployed AI Engineer
IndependentFreelance
Sep 2026 - Present
2 months
Paris, France
Design and deliver short, outcome-driven AI engagements covering problem framing, prototype build, evaluation and hand-off. Specialised in agentic workflows, enterprise RAG, MCP/tool integration and reliable deployment patterns.
Forward Deployed Engineer
H Company
Oct 2025 - Sep 2026
1 year
Paris, France
First Forward Deployed Engineer at H Company, owning end-to-end agentic AI proofs of concept for finance and logistics institutions. Built computer-use agents, multi-agent systems and MCP-based integrations operating real enterprise workflows. Diagnosed long-horizon agent failure modes and translated findings into product and engineering improvements.
Applied AI Engineer
Mistral AI
Jan 2025 - Sep 2025
9 months
Paris, France
Architected Aletheia, Mistral's internal LLM and agent evaluation framework, adopted across the Solutions organisation and used on 15+ enterprise deployments. Built agentic pipelines, MCP tool servers, coding agents and RAG over private corpora. Optimised self-hosted inference with vLLM, Docker and Kubernetes for on-premise, air-gapped and GDPR-constrained environments.
W24 Graduate
Entrepreneur First
Mar 2024 - Jan 2025
11 months
Paris, France
Entrepreneur First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. Youngest ever to join the program at Station F.
Machine Learning Engineer
Gigi
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
3 months
Paris, France
Backed by Sequoia and OpenAI. First ML engineer.
Software Engineer
phospho (YC W24)
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
1 month
Paris, France
Software Engineer
Cypheme
Jun 2023 - Jan 2024
8 months
Paris, France
Cypheme is an anti-counterfeit service provider that uses artificial intelligence to detect counterfeit products by analyzing the product's packaging with a neural network, using only a cellphone camera.
Machine Learning Engineer
Upwork
Jun 2020 - Jan 2024
3 years 8 months
Remote, OR 97458, USA
Data, ML, automation
Intern
Airbus
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
2 months
Beijing, China
Education
French International School of Beijing
High School Diploma
2023 - Present
3 years 4 months
Spe Maths et SPC. Option Maths expert. Section Chinoises (20/20 au bac). Brevet mention très bien. Bac mention bien.
IA Institut
Artificial Intelligence
Grade: Dropout
Didn’t learn much, won’t recommend.