Nicolas Docolas

AI Engineer—Agentic Systems & LLM Infrastructure

I build production-grade AI systems — agentic pipelines, RAG architectures, and LLM-powered backends that ship and scale.

Selected Work

Things I've built

Experience

Where I've worked

Ago 2026 - Present

Cepheid

California, United States (Remote)

AI Engineer

    February 2026 - Jun 2026

    CVS Health

    United Stated (Remote)

    AI Engineer

    • —Python, LangChain, LangGraph, FastAPI, LLMs, REST APIs
    • —Design, develop, and deploy LLM-powered AI agents (LangChain, LangGraph) driving real-world workflows for an enterprise platform spanning 9,000+ locations and millions of daily interactions.
    • —Build scalable, high-throughput agent workflows for real-time user interactions, integrating agents with internal and external APIs (location services, scheduling systems).

    Jan 2024 — Feb 2026

    Hewlett-Packard Inc.

    Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Machine Learning Engineer

    • —Worked on the design and development of large-scale enterprise AI systems, focusing on agentic architectures, multi-agent orchestration, and production-grade LLM applications. Built and maintained scalable backend services using Python, FastAPI, LangChain, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines, emphasising clean architecture, modularity, and maintainability. Designed secure access control through Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) integrated at the application's data layer.
    • —Developed orchestration layers for AI systems capable of dynamically routing tasks across specialised agents. Designed execution frameworks that decompose requests into Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) of interdependent tasks, supporting parallel execution, dependency resolution, and pause-and-resume capabilities. Integrated Redis for persistent state management, improving robustness, reducing latency, and optimising token usage.
    • —Applied advanced LLM engineering techniques including prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and guardrails such as hallucination mitigation and controlled retrieval. Built pipelines enabling context propagation across tools and agents, ensuring reliable outputs in enterprise environments.
    • —Contributed to conversational AI systems with dynamic agent routing, tool-based execution, and observability through logging and metrics. Developed capabilities such as translation, summarisation, document generation, and image generation using structured prompts and API integrations.
    • —Engineered on-premises AI infrastructure by migrating cloud-based systems to multi-node, multi-GPU environments. Containerised applications with Docker, orchestrated with Kubernetes. Benchmarked and optimised open-source models (Qwen, Llama, DeepSeek) using quantisation techniques to balance performance, accuracy, and efficiency while improving privacy and reducing external dependencies.

    Jan 22 - Dec 2023

    LIS - Software Innovation Laboratory

    Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Software Engineer

      Skills

      What I work with

      Core AI / LLM

      LangChainLangGraphRAGAgentic SystemsTool CallingPrompt EngineeringFine-TuningMulti-agent OrchestrationEvaluation PipelinesGoogle GeminiAzure OpenAIOllama

      Backend

      PythonFastAPISQLPydanticPyTestLocustTypeScriptReact

      Data & Infra

      PostgreSQLpgvectorRedisMongoDBFAISSDockerKubernetesTerraformGCPAzureAWSCI/CD

      Achievements

      Recognition

      December 2024

      HP International Case Competition — 1st Place

      Won HP's inaugural international hackathon by designing and implementing a new AI feature for HP AI Companion.

      June 2024

      AGES Featured Project

      University award from PUCRS's Experimental Software Engineering Agency for an outstanding project delivery.