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Samuel Hill · Résumé · Bel Air, MD

Samuel Hill

Full-Stack Agentic AI Engineer
Profile

Self-taught Full-Stack Agentic AI Engineer who builds production LLM applications end to end — React/Next.js/TypeScript frontends, Python (FastAPI) and Node.js backends, Claude & OpenAI APIs — with the rigor layer most portfolios skip: retrieval grounding, measured evaluations, tracing, and infrastructure as code. My portfolio site is itself a live production system that runs every capability it claims. Seven years of client-facing technical delivery leadership mean I’m equally at home building the product and demoing it to customers.

Technical Skills
LLM Application Engineering
Claude & OpenAI APIs · production LLM apps · grounded chat with refusal & human handoff · context & prompt engineering · streaming (SSE) · conversational AI / chatbot development
RAG & Retrieval
retrieval-augmented generation · visible source citations · pgvector / vector search · embeddings & chunking · similarity-threshold refusal
Agents, Tool-Use & MCP
tool-using agent loops · function / tool calling · an open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
Evals & LLMOps
golden-dataset evals · LLM-as-judge · recall@k / citation-validity / groundedness scoring · cost & latency instrumentation · per-request cost accounting
Observability
request tracing · structured JSON logging · request IDs · /metrics endpoints · p50 / p95 latency
Full-Stack
React · Next.js · TypeScript · JavaScript · React Native (Expo) · Vite · Tailwind CSS · Node.js · Express · Python · FastAPI · Pydantic · REST / OpenAPI · serverless · Firebase (Auth + Firestore) · Stripe
Cloud, Delivery & IaC
Docker · Terraform · Vercel · Render · Google Cloud Run · GitHub Actions (CI/CD) · Cloudflare · Sentry · environment & secrets management
Testing & Customer-Facing
pytest · Playwright · golden-dataset QA · live product demos · technical communication · stakeholder & delivery management · Agile (JIRA)
Selected Projects — all deployed, live links included

Living Portfolio — self-demonstrating production AI system

Live demo

A site that runs its own claims instead of listing them — eight shipped modules, each documented and defensible. RAG assistant with citations (pgvector) that answers only from real documents and refuses what they don’t cover; a 108-case golden-dataset eval suite scoring 0.992 retrieval recall@5 and 92/92 valid citations at $0.41 per run, which caught a live overclaim bug that was fixed, re-measured, and redeployed; request tracing with a public /metrics endpoint; a tool-using agent over portfolio data; an open-source MCP server; token streaming; Docker; and Terraform that round-trips clean against live infrastructure. Typed FastAPI backend (Pydantic, pytest, OpenAPI), CI/CD rebuilding two clouds on one push.

Cadence — AI customer-support chatbot integration

Live demo

Custom support assistant on the Claude API, grounded in a product’s real knowledge: answers only from known content, refuses honestly instead of hallucinating, and hands off cleanly to a human. React + Vercel serverless, API key held server-side.

Meridian — brand landing page

Live demo

Framework-free responsive landing page built from scratch: CSS design tokens, fluid type with clamp(), auto-fit grid. Deployed with push-to-deploy on Vercel.

Experience

Independent Full-Stack AI Engineer

2026 – Present
Freelance · Bel Air, MD
  • Design, build, and deploy production web and AI applications for clients — auth, Stripe payments, i18n, CI/CD, automated tests — plus custom Claude-API chatbots grounded in client content, with live demos delivered before commitment.

Consultant / Advisor (Contract)

Jun 2025 – Present
ClearShot AI · Washington, DC
  • Advise leadership of a B2G critical-infrastructure AI platform, aligning technical development milestones with strategic business objectives.

Technical Project Manager

2019 – 2024
Friendlyforce · Austin, TX
  • Led the full project lifecycle for a high-growth startup from launch through year five, directing up to 11 developers across 3+ teams.
  • Designed and enforced a video-validated QA protocol that cut defects 90%, raised productivity 39%, and shortened project cycles 30%.
  • Partnered with executives and investors on delivery that helped secure $2.4M in funding; trained 15+ hires in Agile processes and tooling.

Project Manager

2017 – 2019
Hoodini · Austin, TX
  • Aligned delivery with C-suite goals; led UAT & QA policies.