Forward-deployed data & AI engineer

We build AI that does real work.

Ten years building and scaling data systems in production, including at AWS. We join your team, take one real workflow, and turn it into an AI system that runs in production and pays for itself.

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David Lequin

Forward-deployed data & AI engineer

FocusIndustrial optimisation · AI automations

Experience10+ years · ex-AWS

Engages asEmbedded · sprint · fractional

StackAWS · k8s · Python · SQL · LLMs

BasedLondon · works across EU & UK

What we do

Senior and hands-on, from data to model to production.

We're not strategists who hand off to juniors, and not modellers who stop at a notebook. We do the full arc, and we stay until it runs.

AI agents & automation

Agents that take action across your systems, automating real, repetitive work end to end, with a human kept in the loop.

Applied AI & LLM systems

Retrieval, extraction, and reasoning wired into real workflows, with the evals and guardrails to run them in production.

Data engineering & platform

Pipelines, warehouses, and integrations that survive messy real-world data. This is the plumbing the agents actually run on.

Optimization & forecasting

Where a model genuinely beats a guess: forecasting, scheduling, and routing. The industrial optimization work we cut our teeth on.

The stack

Ways to work together

How we work is up to you.

Some clients want one problem solved and gone. Others want us on the team for months. We shape the engagement around how you work, not a fixed menu.

On your team

Embedded

Hands-on inside your team for as long as it's useful, building, shipping, and levelling up your people.

A defined outcome

Project

A scoped piece of work, delivered and handed over clean, with your team able to run and extend it after.

Fractional · part-time

Advisory

Senior direction without a full-time hire: roadmap, architecture, and an honest second opinion when you need one.

Work with us

Start with one real problem.

Bring us the workflow or the number that's stuck. We'll tell you honestly whether AI can move it, and how fast.

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