Candidate profile
Senior LLM and MLOps Engineer
Description
Hamza Arifi is a Senior LLM and MLOps Engineer based in Skopje, North Macedonia. The profile is available for remote work, comfortable with the CET timezone and EU/US overlap, but not willing to relocate. Hamza possesses a strong technical background in Python, specializing in advanced areas such as LLM integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, local Llama via Ollama/vLLM), RAG systems (Neo4j GraphRAG, pgvector), and MLOps (MLflow, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Docker, AWS ECS/Fargate, ECR). Further expertise includes OCR pipelines (Google Vision, PaddleOCR), classical machine learning (scikit-learn), SQL/PostgreSQL, and evaluation tooling (DeepEval, LangSmith). The profile also demonstrates full-stack capabilities with Frontend (React) and Mobile apps (React-Native). The resume and portfolio are available on GitHub.