Location: Pisa, Italy (CET)
Remote: Yes, remote only
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, LLM/agent orchestration (local embeddings, RAG, tool-calling agents),
AWS, production incident response & service re-architecture, NLP/Transformers
Email: valeriya.slovikovskaya@gmail.com
15+ years building and running production software, currently a Team Lead / Software
Architect at a UK fintech/consumer-services company. The work I actually get pulled into most,
beyond the job title: taking over a service after it's already broken and rebuilding it so it
stops breaking — production incident response and re-architecture, unofficial but real, no
ticket tracker needed, just the git history.
Ten months ago I grew a team from 1 to 7 — hired and onboarded everyone myself, rebuilt the
codebase, got real end-to-end acceptance-test coverage running with the whole team's buy-in.
Right now I'm deep in agentic AI/LLM systems as an engineer, not a researcher (there's a PhD in
Physics and a published NLP/Transformers paper behind me, but I'm 20 years into building
software, not chasing a research title). Currently building: a local-embeddings market-signal
tool (Ollama, cosine similarity, zero API cost) that mines sources and ranks them against a
role description I wrote myself; a tool-calling agent that turns unstructured regulatory text
into a deterministic tax-calculation pipeline.
Looking for agentic AI/LLM engineering, technical architecture, or production-reliability
roles — genuine employment or named-delivery consulting.
15+ years building and running production software, currently a Team Lead / Software Architect at a UK fintech/consumer-services company. The work I actually get pulled into most, beyond the job title: taking over a service after it's already broken and rebuilding it so it stops breaking — production incident response and re-architecture, unofficial but real, no ticket tracker needed, just the git history.
Ten months ago I grew a team from 1 to 7 — hired and onboarded everyone myself, rebuilt the codebase, got real end-to-end acceptance-test coverage running with the whole team's buy-in.
Right now I'm deep in agentic AI/LLM systems as an engineer, not a researcher (there's a PhD in Physics and a published NLP/Transformers paper behind me, but I'm 20 years into building software, not chasing a research title). Currently building: a local-embeddings market-signal tool (Ollama, cosine similarity, zero API cost) that mines sources and ranks them against a role description I wrote myself; a tool-calling agent that turns unstructured regulatory text into a deterministic tax-calculation pipeline.
Looking for agentic AI/LLM engineering, technical architecture, or production-reliability roles — genuine employment or named-delivery consulting.