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AI / LLM Developer with 3+ years of experience building semantic search engines and RAG-based private chatbots. Strong background in generative AI, large language models, vector databases, embeddings, OCR, and information retrieval. Holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a master’s degree in Data Science with multiple certifications and solid expertise in machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing.…AI / LLM Developer with 3+ years of experience building semantic search engines and RAG-based private chatbots. Strong background in generative AI, large language models, vector databases, embeddings, OCR, and information retrieval. Holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a master’s degree in Data Science with multiple certifications and solid expertise in machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing.

Lorenc Zhuka

AI Engineer, AI Developer, Data Scientist, +2

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AI / LLM Developer with 3+ years of experience building semantic search engines and RAG-based private chatbots. Strong background in generative AI, large language models, vector databases, embeddings, OCR, and information retrieval. Holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a master’s degree in Data Science with multiple certifications and solid expertise in machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing.…AI / LLM Developer with 3+ years of experience building semantic search engines and RAG-based private chatbots. Strong background in generative AI, large language models, vector databases, embeddings, OCR, and information retrieval. Holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a master’s degree in Data Science with multiple certifications and solid expertise in machine learning, deep learning and natural language processing.

Available to hire

AI / LLM Developer with 3+ years of experience building semantic
search engines and RAG-based private chatbots. Strong background
in generative AI, large language models, vector databases,
embeddings, OCR, and information retrieval. Holds a bachelor’s
degree in Computer Science and a master’s degree in Data Science
with multiple certifications and solid expertise in machine learning,
deep learning and natural language processing.

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Expert

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English

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German

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Albanian

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Work Experience

AI/LLM Developer at Merck KGaA

October 1, 2022 - October 1, 2023

Contributed to the development of an AI agent that searches across several databases to locate relevant research papers and generate evidence-backed responses with paper references using GPT-3.5-turbo. Built autonomous agents based on the BabyAGI architecture and the ReAct framework, enabling self-learning, reasoning, and decision-making in process development contexts. Applied machine learning within process development; built AI automation workflows.

AI/LLM Developer at Innomatik AG

December 1, 2023 - January 1, 2025

Developed state-of-the-art AI solutions focusing on NLP tasks and building RAG-based large language model applications. Built customized RAG pipelines with tailored data loaders, chunking methods and retrievers; created automatic data generation and evaluation pipelines for RAG; hosted open-source LLMs with various frameworks like vllm and text-generation-inference or self-host; developed chatbot applications with React and FastAPI.

Founder & AI/LLM Developer at Smart Search AI

January 1, 2024 - Present

Co-founded a startup that builds semantic search engines and RAG-based private chatbots enabling users to quickly find documents and obtain clear answers from knowledge bases. Works with large language models, private and external APIs, embeddings, and OCR to extract and structure information from PDFs for retrieval. Develops AI automations integrated into daily workflows to save time and improve efficiency for companies.