AI Engineer · Agent & Automation Systems · Rotterdam, NL

I build production AI systems that ship.

LLM orchestration, RAG, voice agents, and automation pipelines that solve real business problems end to end — architected, coded, self-hosted, and owned in production.

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Pick any open slot on my calendar — 30 min, Google Meet.

~80% call resolution2,600+ products automated80+ businesses servedFull NL work authorization — no sponsorship

Production systems

Five systems, honestly labeled.

Pilot means pilot. Live means live. Three of these you can click through right now.

Client work · live pilot

AI Voice Receptionist — Edwards Pipe & Tobacco

A voice agent that answers real phone calls over a 2,600-product catalog via RAG — Twilio telephony, ElevenLabs voice, retrieval over the live product database.

Live call · illustrative

caller · Do you carry Peterson pipes?

agent · Checks the 2,600-product catalog → answers → call resolved.

TwilioElevenLabsRAG over product DB

Honest framing: a live pilot with real callers — a small sample, not a mass rollout.

~80%

of calls resolved by the agent

71%

positive caller sentiment

2,600+

products in the RAG catalog

hire.allarounduniversal.com

Maya — AI hiring-screen agent

Live

Own venture

Conversational screening agent that intakes and evaluates candidates.

Open live demo

training.aimforce.cloud

VI-A University — AI training platform

Live

Own venture

AI-avatar training & certification — HeyGen / ElevenLabs pipeline plus LMS, multi-tenant.

Open live demo

emeofficial.com

Emé — skincare e-commerce

Live

Paid client build

Multi-currency storefront with quiz-driven personalization and Klaviyo lifecycle automation.

Open live demo

Own system · self-hosted

B2B Prospecting Pipeline

LangGraph agent pipeline, self-hosted on a VPS with systemd timers and a worker service. No public demo — it runs outreach — so the architecture stands in.

KvK / SBI filter

Hunter.io enrich

Apify scrape

LangGraph orchestrator · worker service

Automated outreach

VPS · systemd timers · cron

server-1 · prospect-worker

$ systemctl is-active tars-prospector.timer
active
$ curl -s localhost:8088/health
{"ok":true,"jobs":["prospect_research"]}
$ journalctl -u tars-prospector -n 2
REFILL added=2 backlog_total=98
CYCLE done dispatched=0 backlog_total=96

About

AI engineer who ships production agentic systems — LLM orchestration, RAG, voice agents, and automation pipelines that solve real business problems end to end. I design the architecture, write the Python/TypeScript, self-host the infrastructure, and own it in production. Two years building AI systems for 80+ businesses through my studio; five years of US-market experience on a European foundation. Now in Rotterdam, looking to build alongside a strong AI engineering team.

Three acts.

Act I2018–2024

Service & Hospitality

Five-star standards at Monarch Casino & Resort and The Broadmoor, Colorado. Operational discipline, real customer problems.

Act II2024–2025

Marketing & Operations

Creative Director / Business Ops Lead at All Around Universal (team of 5, ~$40K revenue managed in 2025); Marketing & Content Strategist at The Little Local Book — hundreds of SMB campaigns. Hit the manual-work ceiling that made automation necessary.

Act III2026–Now

AI Engineering

Founded 180 Meridian. Builds production agentic systems — voice agents, RAG assistants, multi-agent orchestration — for 80+ businesses.

Where I've worked.

Jan 2026 — Present

Founder & AI Engineer — 180 Meridian

AI systems & automation studio · Rotterdam / Denver

Design and ship agentic AI for 80+ businesses — voice agents, RAG assistants, multi-agent orchestration, end-to-end automation. Python (FastAPI, LangGraph) + TypeScript (Next.js); self-hosted models (Ollama, vLLM) on Docker/Coolify VPS for EU-compliant deployments; CRM, telephony, payments, and commerce integrations via REST, webhooks, and MCP servers.

Apr 2024 — Present

Creative Director / Business Operations Lead — All Around Universal

Denver

Led marketing, e-commerce, and automation; team of 5; ~$40K revenue managed in 2025.

Feb 2025 — Dec 2025

Marketing & Content Strategist — The Little Local Book

Denver

Content and campaign systems for local businesses; hundreds of campaigns.

2018 — 2024

Guest-Facing Hospitality — Monarch Casino & Resort · The Broadmoor

Colorado

Five-star service standards, fine-dining and high-volume.

AI & LLM

LangGraphMulti-agent systemsMCP serversRAGpgvectorTool-callingStructured outputsPrompt engineeringEvalsClaudeGPTLlamaQwenDeepSeekOllama & vLLM self-hostingElevenLabsHeyGenTwiliofal.aiKlingNano Banana Pro

Engineering

PythonTypeScript / JavaScriptSQLFastAPINode.jsNext.jsREST / webhooksBullMQ / Redis queuesPostgreSQLSupabaseDockerCoolifySelf-hosted VPSLinuxtmuxcron / systemdCIGoHighLevelStripeShopifyHunter.ioApify

Education

B.A., Tourism & Hospitality Management — Turiba University, Riga, Latvia · 2016–2021

Japanese Philology — Tashkent Oriental Lyceum · 2013–2016

Contact

Let's build.

Hiring an AI engineer in the Netherlands — or need a system built for your business? Grab a slot on my calendar, or just write.

Full NL work authorization — no sponsorship required

Email me Book a call CV (PDF)

Rotterdam, Netherlands+31 6 57380184 ibk4business@gmail.com 180meridian.com LinkedInGitHub on request