I'm Manuel Romero, a freelance AI engineer specializing in AI Agents, RAG systems and Azure-based LLM applications. I design production-ready solutions with reliability, security, privacy and fast business impact in mind. I deliver production-ready AI solutions across Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search and Document Intelligence, focusing on reliability, security, privacy and fast business impact.

Manuel Romero

I'm Manuel Romero, a freelance AI engineer specializing in AI Agents, RAG systems and Azure-based LLM applications. I design production-ready solutions with reliability, security, privacy and fast business impact in mind. I deliver production-ready AI solutions across Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search and Document Intelligence, focusing on reliability, security, privacy and fast business impact.

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I’m Manuel Romero, a freelance AI engineer specializing in AI Agents, RAG systems and Azure-based LLM applications. I design production-ready solutions with reliability, security, privacy and fast business impact in mind.

I deliver production-ready AI solutions across Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search and Document Intelligence, focusing on reliability, security, privacy and fast business impact.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate

Language

Spanish; Castilian
Fluent
English
Advanced

Work Experience

AI Engineer at Independent (Remote)
March 1, 2025 - Present
Develop private GenAI and local RAG solutions for freelance projects, prioritizing data privacy, infrastructure control and lower inference costs through local LLM deployments. Built a local AI assistant for documentation workflows using an OpenAI-compatible API, PostgreSQL/pgvector, streaming responses and conversational memory. Designed agent-based workflows for retrieval, routing and answer generation, focused on practical B2B use cases and production-ready integration.
AI Engineer at Wembley Studios
October 1, 2023 - March 1, 2025
Built a B2B purchasing assistant by unifying ~20 PDF catalogs with SQL data (~19k products and ~5k spare parts), creating enriched datasets for conversational retrieval. Engineered a RAG pipeline on Azure AI Search with hybrid retrieval, semantic ranking and multi-query retrieval to improve recall on ambiguous product queries. Architected a tool/function-calling router to direct queries across products, spare parts, catalogs and history sources, improving answer accuracy and reducing unnecessary calls. Automated the processing of ~500 invoices per month with Azure Functions and Document Intelligence, including edge-case retraining and fuzzy matching against database records for installer validation. Developed semantic matching between invoice lines and indexed catalog content, combining embeddings with price and keyword heuristics to improve reliability on noisy invoiced data. Built a Microsoft Teams support bot that retrieved indexed incidents and created tickets via API when no suita
Freelance AI Engineer (Remote) at Independent / Freelance
March 1, 2025 - Present
Develop private Gen AI and RAG solutions for freelance projects; prioritized data privacy and infrastructure control. Built a local AI assistant for end-user documentation and workflows using an OpenAI-compatible API, PostgreSQL (pgVector), streaming responses and conversational memory. Designed agent-based workflows for retrieval, routing and answer generation, focusing on practical B2B use cases and production-ready integration.
AI Engineer at Wembley Studios (B2B)
October 1, 2023 - March 31, 2025
Built a B2B purchasing assistant by unifying ~20 PDF catalogs (10-200 pages) with SQL data (pgvector), creating enriched datasets for conversational retrieval. Engineered a RAG pipeline on Azure AI Search with semantic ranking and multi-query retrieval to improve recall on ambiguous product queries. Architected a tool/function-calling router to direct queries across products, spare parts, catalogs and history sources, improving answer accuracy and reducing unnecessary calls. Automated processing of ~500 invoices per month with Azure Functions and Document Intelligence, including edge-case retraining and fuzzy matching against database records for installer validation.
Freelance AI Engineer (Remote)
March 1, 2025 - Present
Develop private Gen AI and local RAG solutions for freelance projects, prioritizing data privacy, infrastructure control and lower inference costs through local LLM deployments; built a local AI assistant for end-to-end documentation and workflow using an OpenAI-compatible API, PostgreSQL/pgvector, streaming responses and conversational memory; designed agent-based workflows for retrieval, routing and answer generation, focused on practical B2B use cases and production-ready integration.
Freelance AI Engineer (Remote) at Self-employed
March 1, 2025 - Present
Develop private Gen AI and local RAG solutions for freelance projects, prioritizing data privacy, infra control and lower inference costs through local LLM deployments. Built a local AI assistant for end-to-end documentation and workflow using an OpenAI-compatible API, Postgres SQL/pgvector, streaming responses and conversational memory. Designed agent-based workflows for retrieval, routing and answer generation for practical B2B use cases and production-ready integration.

Education

MBA at Higher Technical Institute
January 1, 1994 - January 1, 2000

Qualifications

AZ-204
January 11, 2030 - March 18, 2026
DP-100
January 11, 2030 - March 18, 2026
AI-102
January 11, 2030 - March 18, 2026
Higher Technician in Multiplatform Application Development (DAM)
January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2023
Higher Technician in Multiplatform Application Development (DAM)
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2023
AZ-204
January 11, 2030 - March 19, 2026
DP-100
January 11, 2030 - March 19, 2026
AI-102
January 11, 2030 - March 19, 2026
Higher Technician in Multiplatform Application Development (DAM)
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2023
AZ-204
January 11, 2030 - March 19, 2026
DP-100
January 11, 2030 - March 19, 2026
AI-102
January 11, 2030 - March 19, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Gaming, Other