Hugo Le Belzic

Forward Deployed AI Engineer | LLM Agents & Evals

1 recommendation

Salary / Daily rate

1 person recommend

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Data AnalysisAIMachine LearningScrapingLLMs / Large language modelsDeep LearningData Science

Languages

ChineseEnglishFrench

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H Company

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Recommended on 22 september 2026

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.

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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.

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