Gilles Jacobs
AI, NLP, LLM Engineer (Freelance) at Stealth AI Startup
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolGilles Jacobs is an AI, NLP and LLM engineer with 11 years of experience building end-to-end data and language pipelines that power production SaaS and research projects. Based in Leuven, he blends deep academic training (PhD in NLP) with hands-on expertise in LLM agents, RAG systems, speech processing (TTS/STT), knowledge graphs and MLOps across cloud platforms like Azure and AWS. He has led applied projects from ingestion and annotation to deployment—shipping compliance scoring agents, corporate-documentation chatbots, and multilingual customer-care workflows that combine Whisper, ElevenLabs, LangChain and vector search. Comfortable across research and product, he has a track record of securing funding, advising startups, and founding a stealth AI venture while freelancing to deliver practical, data-driven solutions. A multilingual linguist by training, he often bridges language expertise and engineering to extract nuanced events and sentiment for finance and regulatory use cases.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Master of Science Artificial Intelligence: Speech and Language Technologies, Advanced Master of Science Artificial Intelligence: Speech and Language Technologies at KU LeuvenUniversity of SevilleDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Language Processing at Ghent UniversityHigh School Latijn Wiskunde: Talen, High School Latijn Wiskunde: Talen at Sint-Albertuscollege Haasrode
Dutch, English, Spanish, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
python10
annotations10
distilbert10
vector-database10
standardized10
datasets10
relation10
cython10
label-studio10
labeling10
bounding-box10
statistics10
training-data10
fine-tuning10
computer-vision10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
GillesJ/gillesj.github.io
Mar 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:340 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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GillesJ/sentivent_event_sentence_classification
Sep 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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