# hire-me

Hire me to add AI to your existing stack — without burning down what works.

Senior fullstack engineer (8y in production). I take Laravel / PrestaShop / Vue / Flutter apps that already serve real customers and bolt on Claude-SDK agents, LLM features, and AI tooling. Without rewriting the world.

First reply within 1 business day · CET hours

// what I take on

Three shapes the engagement can take.

POST /retrofit

AI feature retrofit

2–4 weeks · fixed-scope

You have a Laravel or PrestaShop app shipping revenue. You want an AI-powered feature inside it — semantic search, smart product recommendations, an LLM support copilot, agentic checkout flows. I scope, build, and ship inside your existing codebase. Postgres + Claude SDK + your stack. No rewrites, no new infra you have to maintain.

POST /agent

Agent system from scratch

4–8 weeks · fixed-scope or retainer

You need an internal agent — sales-lead enrichment, customer-data pipeline, ops-automation bot, anything that scrapes / scores / drafts. I build the agent, the evaluation harness so it doesn't silently regress, and the ops dashboard so your team can supervise it.

POST /retainer

Fractional AI engineer

monthly · 1–2 days/week · ≥8 weeks

You have a team but no AI engineer. I pair with your developers, review PRs, set prompt-eval guardrails, and ship the LLM features your roadmap promised. Async-first. No daily standups.

// not a fit

What I won't take on.

Listed up front because every bad-fit lead that bounces here saves us both a meeting.

  • Hourly gigs under €60/hr equivalent
  • "Just talk to me about AI" with no scoped problem
  • Crypto / web3 speculative projects
  • Greenfield rewrites of legacy systems (I'm an AI-feature engineer, not a Java→Rust migration consultant)
  • On-site work — fully remote only
  • Sub-2-week engagements (not enough time to ship anything I'd put my name on)
// proof

What you can verify before the first call.

years_in_production
8

Shipping PHP / Laravel / PrestaShop / Flutter for paying customers since 2018.

public_proof
akrambak/career-os

An AI-agent system I build in public. MIT-licensed. Crawlers, Claude scorer, CLI, CI green.

view repo
live_demo
This site itself

Next.js 15, Claude SDK, structured-data SEO, deployed via my own SFTP pipeline to a Debian VPS + PM2 + Apache. The site is the portfolio.

// stack I work with daily
Anthropic
OpenAI
Ollama
Hugging Face
Laravel
PHP
Python
PrestaShop
Flutter
Dart
Vue
Next.js
TypeScript
Tailwind
Firebase
SQLite
// workflow

How it works.

  1. 01

    Scope call (free · 25 min)

    You explain the problem. I tell you whether I can solve it, what shape the engagement would be, and a price range. No pressure to commit.

  2. 02

    Written proposal (within 48h)

    Scope, deliverables, timeline, price, what's explicitly out of scope. One round of revisions included.

  3. 03

    Build sprint

    I work async, ship working code on a feature branch you can pull at any time, send Loom updates 2×/week. No daily standups.

  4. 04

    Handover

    Code + docs + a recorded walkthrough. 2 weeks of email support included.

// faq

Likely questions, answered.

Do you sign NDAs?

Yes — standard mutual NDA, sent before the scope call if you want.

Where are you based, and what hours?

Remote · European TZ-friendly · FR + EN bilingual.

Do you sub-contract?

No. Solo by design.

What about IP?

Work-for-hire — all code I write inside your codebase is yours.

Can you join our Slack?

Yes, for the duration of the engagement.

What's your default AI stack?

Claude SDK for production agents · Ollama / vLLM for cheap-mode or self-hosted · Postgres for everything stateful.

// closing

Ready to scope it?

Email me the brief — what you're building, the stack, the timeline, the budget shape. I reply within a business day.

If none of the three shapes above fits but you think we should still talk — just email me anyway. Some of the best engagements start weird-shaped.

Hire me · Akram Bakhouche