You're seeing this page as if you were . The main menu is still yours, though. Exit from immersion
Stanley HorwoodSH

Stanley Horwood

Generative AI / Infrastructure & Cloud Architect

€850/day
7 projects
Lyon 2e Arrondissement, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

Freelancer profile translated to English.
Back to original language

About Stanley

Architect specializing in the industrialization of Generative AI in critical and sovereign contexts.

Founder of Nanoworks.io: a cloud-native, multi-model IAG orchestration platform designed for enterprise SI integration. Previously: 2 years as Senior GenAI Consultant for a major industrial group (energy), from strategic scoping to Kubernetes production deployment. Security Engineer at Stormshield (Airbus CyberSecurity) — ANSSI compliance, sovereign firewalls.

Bare-metal & cloud infrastructure: Kubernetes (AKS, K3s, on-prem), Terraform, CI/CD. LLM orchestration: LangChain, Ollama, vLLM, OpenAI. Languages: Rust, Python, TypeScript. Open source contributor (rust-analyzer, modelcontextprotocol).

Graduate of École 42. Bilingual French/English. Available for remote work.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Lyon 2e Arrondissement (up to 30km)

Experience

  • NANOWORKS.IO
    FOUNDER & DESIGNER
    August 2024 - Today (1 year and 10 months)
    Lyon, France
    Context:Born in 2024 from an idea shared by four associates passionate about Generative AI, Nanoworks.io embodies an ambitious vision: to make IAG accessible, sovereign, and secure, serving French and European companies. Driven by the energy of a committed team, the initiative is part of the French Tech dynamic, with the motto: IAG for all, on a large scale, without compromising on security or user experience.

    Objective:to design a modular, interoperable AI orchestration platform, designed to integrate with the most demanding business information systems, while ensuring a controlled, supported, and acculturating experience for client teams. Each layer of the project; technical, product, security, training; was designed to serve this mission.

    Architecture & Product
    • Design and development of a SaaS platform for Generative AI and Agentic orchestration.
    • Modular, agnostic infrastructure, designed for multi-SI and multi-model integration.
    • Native support for open-source and proprietary model families.
    • Scalability & Performance
    • Implementation of best practices for AI optimization (multi-threading, lazy loading, persistent session management).
    • Full deployment automation, real-time monitoring of AI performance.

    Interoperability
    • Connection of the platform with third-party APIs, business tools, vector databases.
    • Centralized management of models, access, and logs for secure production operation.
    • Steering & Vision
    • Product positioning, go-to-market strategy, structuring of the offering around AI business needs.
    • Continuous technological watch on LLMs, agentic tools, and open-source frameworks.
    Technical environment: LangChain, Ollama, OpenAI, Llama, vLLM, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, REST API, Python, Node.js
    Langchain Open AI Kubernetes Python CI/CD
  • CARREFOUR LINKS (Campus)
    SOFTWARE FULLSTACK DEVELOPER
    AGRICULTURE
    October 2023 - March 2024 (5 months)
    **Context**: Intervention as part of a strategic initiative led by Carrefour Links. Contribution to the development of a full-stack application dedicated to monitoring commercial performance, deployed on Google Cloud Platform. Technical stack: Node.js / TypeScript, Vue.js 3 and Looker.
    • Conceptualization and development of a high-performance Full-Stack application for global sales analytics.
    • Integration and visualization of sales metrics from Carrefour BigQuery data lakes via the Looker API.
    • Optimization of Looker views and queries to improve response time.
    • Study, design, and integration of the integration, functional, and unit testing strategy.
    • Maintenance and deployment on Google Cloud Platform, as well as its CI/CD orchestration.
    • Development of a translation synchronization tool for the application to streamline localization processes.
    • Refactoring of the business metrics acquisition system following a technical debt mitigation initiative.
    • Design and development of a Looker overlay for increased development efficiency within teams.
    Environment: NodeJS, tRPC, Looker, Vue 3, BigQuery, Vitest, Vite, Google Cloud Platform, Docker, PostgreSQL.
    Node.js Google Cloud Big Query Docker Looker
  • GROUPE INDUSTRIEL
    SENIOR GENERATIVE AI CONSULTANT - BUILD & INDUSTRIALIZATION
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    January 2023 - January 2025 (2 years)
    **Context**: Strategic mission within a large industrial IT department aimed at integrating Generative AI into critical systems. Complete intervention, from scoping to production deployment, with a strong build and architecture component and documented deliverables.


    Scoping & Audit Phase
    • Conducted an AI maturity audit (14 technical and organizational axes)
    • Full report including strategic & infrastructural recommendations validated by governance
    • Selection of models (OpenAI, Llama) and software components (LangChain, Ollama) based on IT and business requirements
    Architecture & Build
    • Design of a HPC Kubernetes infrastructure oriented towards Generative AI (Azure AKS, Terraform, CI/CD)
    • Complete modeling of a modular, scalable, and securable IAG orchestrator
    • Writing of the HLD DAT on the 4 layers: operational, functional, application, technical
    • Implementation of a reproducible, documented environment aligned with production standards
    Deliverables
    • Audit report & AI strategic roadmap
    • Kubernetes architecture dedicated to GenAI, Terraform scripts, Helm chart, CI/CD configuration
    • Software design of the orchestrator, orchestration logic, multi-model management
    • Complete HLD DAT submitted to IT teams for integration and governance
    Support & Acculturation
    • Facilitation of training workshops: prompts, LLM workflows, security, deployment
    • Transfer of IAG culture to Data, DevOps & Business teams
    High autonomy in design phases, IT coordination & technical steering.
    Mission representative of the ability to industrialize IAG in critical and sovereign contexts.

    Environment: Kubernetes, Salesforce, Power BI, Ollama, OpenAI, Replicate, Azure / AKS
    Kubernetes Azure AKS Langchain Microsoft Power BI Open AI

Reviews

5.0

Out of 6 ratings

AliceA

Alice

Talentsoft

Reviewed on 9/10/2020

Stanley was able to address our challenge of migrating our article base to the Lightning version. He maintained direct contact with the Salesforce teams to react and fix bugs. The migration was a success. We would be delighted to count on Stanley's expertise for other missions.
LucasL

Lucas

Warmango

Reviewed on 1/22/2020

Stanley is very serious and rigorous in his work. Very competent and flexible, he perfectly completed the requested projects.

Recommendations

These freelancer profiles also match your criteria

AgathaA

Agatha Frydrych

Backend Java Software Engineer

4.7

(3)

2

BaptisteB

Baptiste Duhen

Fullstack developer

4.6

(4)

5

AmedA

Amed Hamou

Senior Lead Developer

4

(2)

7

AudreyA

Audrey Champion

Web developer

4.3

(3)

4

Education

  • 42 School
    42 Lyon
    2020

Skill set

Categories