SEASONED ENGINEER - PARIS - HYBRID - ONSITE
Laurent Knauss
Agentic AI · LLM · RAG · LangGraph · MCP
Building production-grade AI systems.
I'm a seasoned software engineer with 15+ years of experience, specialised in the design and development of production-grade AI systems. I help companies turn emerging AI capabilities into working software — from LLM-powered applications and RAG systems to AI agents, agentic workflows and tool-using systems integrated with existing APIs, databases and business applications.
What I can build for your company
I work with teams that need to move from AI experimentation to production.
AI Agents
Agents that reason through a task, call tools, hit APIs and coordinate multi-step workflows.
LLM Applications
Production applications built on LLMs: structured outputs, streaming, tool calling and application logic you can rely on.
RAG Systems
Retrieval pipelines that connect LLMs to your own documents, databases and enterprise knowledge.
Agentic Workflows
Deterministic, stateful workflows around LLMs — LangGraph, checkpointing, human-in-the-loop.
MCP Integrations
Connecting AI systems to internal tools, APIs, databases and third-party services through the Model Context Protocol.
AI-powered Applications
Complete products, from backend architecture through to React / Next.js interfaces and generative UI.
Why work with me
I combine seasoned software engineering experience with hands-on AI engineering. I don't treat AI as a collection of prompts or API calls.
Production AI systems demand the same engineering discipline as any other serious software:
- architecture
- APIs
- data
- state
- security
- testing
- evaluation
- observability
- reliability
- deployment
The goal is systems that are not only impressive in a prototype, but useful, maintainable and deployable in a real business environment.
Available for AI engineering projects & opportunities
- —AI engineering / agentic AI roles
- —Seasoned software engineering roles
- —Freelance AI engineering projects
- —AI architecture & implementation work
- —Long-term engagements with engineering teams
Based in Paris, France — working with remote and distributed teams internationally.