About Me

Independent AI consultant helping companies put AI to work - the right way.

Portrait of Elie Bitar, independent AI consultant based in Berlin.

What I Do

I'm Elie Bitar. I help companies integrate AI into their products and workloads - pragmatically, end to end, without the hype. From first prototype to production deployment, I bring deep hands-on engineering expertise to every project.

I work with teams that want results, not pilots: agents that automate real work, LLM features that ship, fine-tuned models that beat the generic ones on your data, and AI systems that actually hold up in production.

Areas of Expertise

AI Engineering
LLMs, agents, RAG, fine-tuning, and evaluation - production-grade, with proper observability, CI, and the kind of testing that catches problems before users do.
Solution Architecture
I design AI systems that fit your existing stack, your data, and your constraints - not someone else's reference architecture from a vendor slide deck.
MLOps & Deployment
Inference infrastructure, model serving, cost and latency tuning, monitoring, and CI/CD for AI - so your models stay reliable after they hit production.
AI Strategy
Roadmaps, build-vs-buy decisions, and honest assessments of where AI actually moves the needle for your business - and where it doesn't.

How I Work

I'm a hands-on partner, not a slide deck. I start by understanding your data and your goals, then ship working software fast and iterate on real usage - with evals and observability baked in from day one.

Discovery & Strategy: Understand your data, your users, and your constraints

Prototype Fast: Working demo in days, not months - to validate the idea on real data

Production-Grade: Evals, observability, cost and latency budgets from day one

Knowledge Transfer: Your team owns it when I leave - no hidden dependencies on me

What I Care About

Excellence
Shipping AI that actually works in production - not just demos
Pragmatism
Right tool for the job - not the trendiest one on Twitter
Partnership
Direct, honest, hands-on collaboration with your team
Speed
Working software fast, then iterate on real-world feedback

Let's Build Something

Have an AI project in mind? Let's talk about how to ship it.

Hire Me
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