Senior AI / Full-Stack Engineer — based in Geneva / Zurich, Switzerland.
Currently lead contributor at Delta Labs, the Zurich AI startup (UZH spin-off, €4.4M seed Mar 2026) building Elaiia — an AI customer-simulation platform powered by Recursive Language Models (RLM).
- Production RAG / semantic search on Postgres + pgvector + DiskANN
- RLM inference & multi-turn persona-generation services
- Agentic AI / MCP (Model Context Protocol) framework — codified team-wide
- OCR / document parsing pipelines for proprietary enterprise documents
- The orchestration / evaluation / reliability layer that turns AI prototypes into production
| Win | How |
|---|---|
| 3,370× vector-search speedup (25s → 7ms on 162k rows) | pg_diskann + index strategy redesign |
| Test coverage 5% → 85% (100% on async / event-driven functions) | ~8,500 LOC of new tests across 21 files |
| −40-70% serverless function memory per request | split a 1,932-line monolith into 9 focused services |
| 320+ merged PRs across 8 repos in 10 months | as lead contributor / de-facto tech lead |
Greenfield data-service FastAPI microservice |
replaced legacy distribution model — significantly more efficient |
| AI Agent Skills + MCP framework rolled out team-wide | how Claude / Copilot / ChatGPT plug into our codebase |
Languages Python TypeScript JavaScript Node.js
AI / LLM RAG RLM MCP / Agentic OCR pgvector + DiskANN OpenAI / Anthropic / Azure OpenAI LangChain-equivalent orchestration Eval loops
Backend / Data FastAPI Flask PostgreSQL Elasticsearch Redis Knowledge graphs SQL perf tuning
Frontend React Next.js TypeScript Tailwind AntD Streamlit
Cloud / DevOps Azure AWS Docker Kubernetes GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD Inngest Vercel
- smitfire/cv · CV pipeline + portfolio site → smitfire.github.io/cv
- BlueBrain/core-web-app · public web app I led the frontend on at EPFL — React / Next.js / TypeScript over a 1M+ node neuroscience knowledge graph
2,266 contributions in the last 12 months · 320+ merged PRs across 8 repos at Delta Labs in 10 months · 118 public repos · on GitHub since 2012
- CTO at Ranova (Geneva, healthcare data)
- Frontend lead on EPFL's Blue Brain Project (2021–2024)
- 1st technical hire at RTK.io → acquired by Magnite, the world's largest independent SSP