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Julien Lucas

AI Engineer | AI Agents | RAG | Senior Developer

€600/day
17 projects
Avignon, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Julien

Applied AI Engineer and Developer | Use AI as a Growth Lever for Your Business

I develop high-value tasks and systems for your business. My profile bridges engineering, product, AI engineering, and business acumen.

Certified in AI Agents/RAG by IBM and in Deep Learning by DeepLearning.AI, I am also a full-stack developer with five years of experience in startups, scale-ups, and large corporations (notably at iziwork, CORUM l'Épargne, Sewan Telecom, Reezocar, and Smartch).

Services:

Development
âś” React Frontend, Python backend, and APIs (FastAPI/Nest/Next)
âś” Expert in clean software architecture (former trainer)

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
âś” High-relevance RAG with re-ranking and rigorous evaluation (Recall, MRR)

AI Agents
âś” Creation of AI agents capable of executing complex tasks (LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or CrewAI)
âś” Mastery of model costs and model selection (preference for Claude/Mistral)

Infrastructure
âś” Management of traditional and vector databases (ChromaDB, Pinecone, Milvus)

Machine Learning
âś” Fine-tuning of custom models through deep learning in computer vision and NLP (PyTorch, HuggingFace)
âś” Classification, scoring, and recommendations
âś” Pruning and quantization for smaller custom models with 2-3x faster optimized inference (ONNX/PyTorch)

Why Work With Me?
• Over 7 years of development experience
• Background in demanding startup/scale-up environments
• Dual expertise in Development + AI
• Trained 40 developers in clean software architecture (formation-cleanarchitecture.com)
• Business-oriented approach
• Built real AI products in production (prospable.com, closechat.co, shootingpro.co)
• 11,000+ developer + AI followers on youtube.com/julienlucas

Feel free to contact me if you are looking for a senior profile capable of quickly transforming your needs into technical solutions.
  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Avignon (up to 50km), Montpellier (up to 30km), Aix-en-Provence (up to 30km), Marseille (up to 30km), Lyon (up to 10km)

Experience

  • DeepAgenticAI
    Applied AI Engineer
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    April 2025 - Today (1 year and 4 months)
    Avignon, France
    Applied AI Engineer/Developer specializing in the design and deployment of production-ready AI products.

    I have developed:
    • prospable.com (2026): 100% automated B2B outbound agent connected to instantly.ai, LinkedIn scraping API for lead signal detection

    • closechat.co (2026): A LangGraph agent for lead qualification on WhatsApp

    • shootingpro.co (2025): An AI SaaS for ultra-realistic professional portraits (Flux1/LoRA Black Forest Labs)

    • julienlucas.com (2025): RAG agent POCs, MM-RAG, and fine-tunings on HuggingFace computer vision with low FP on MobileNet, ResNet, DenseNet, EfficientNet models (for AI fake/real image detection, pneumonia detection)
    Python Generative AI Langchain LangGraph Fine-tuning
  • Julien Lucas Formations
    Developer Trainer
    EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING
    January 2024 - Today (2 years and 7 months)
    Avignon, France
    I trained developers in clean software architecture (+40): formation-cleanarchitecture.com
    Clean Architecture Software Architecture Software Engineering Training
  • Smartch
    Lead Front-End Developer
    EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING
    November 2022 - September 2023 (10 months)
    Paris, France
    Restructuring the software architecture of the e-learning platform offering online training, and developing features.

    Smartch is an early-stage, growing startup that supports companies, large corporations, ETIs, SMEs, startups, and administrations in knowledge transfer.

    The SaaS was launched in September 2023 under the name Autrice, which became autrice.ai

    • Creation of V1
    • Transfer of best practices for developers
    • Restructuring into clean software architecture
    • Business logic via Redux (event-driven programming)
    • Use of GraphQL
    • Development of new features
    • Continuous integration (Gitlab)
    • Stack: React, Redux Toolkit, RTKQuery, GraphQL, TypeScript, Chakra UI
    React.js redux Typescript GraphQL Clean Architecture

Reviews

5.0

Out of 10 ratings

A

Anne-Laure

Smartch

Reviewed on 12/5/2022

Very good experience with Julien.
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Laurent

Iziwork

Reviewed on 3/12/2021

Another successful mission with Julien, who delivered on time.

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Education

  • DeepLearning.IA PyTorch DeepLearning Specialization
    Coursera
    2026
    Computer vision, et NLP. Architectures avancées (CNNs, ResNet, DenseNet, Transformers), fine-tunings, optimisation de modèles (pruning, quantization), PyTorch Lightning/Optuna, déploiement ONNX/MLflow.
  • IBM RAG & AI Engineering Specialization
    Coursera
    2025
    Applications IA-Agents IA, RAG/MM-RAG vision/RAG Agentique, NLP. Et fine-tunings DPO/PPO/LoRA/QLoRA/Instruction-tuning/PEFT

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