SHEN YI Full-Stack & AI

Paris • Singapore • Shanghai

SHEN YI

Available for new projects

Senior Full-Stack & AI Solutions Developer 25+ years building enterprise systems.

I build Symfony/PHP platforms for regulated teams, hybrid-retrieval RAG engines, and multi-agent AI systems for pharmaceutical and enterprise clients.

Serving clients across Europe and Asia from Paris, Singapore, and Shanghai.

25+
Years building enterprise systems
884
Documents indexed for hybrid RAG
6.7K
Knowledge-graph entities extracted
$ shen --status
 stack    PHP 8.3 · Symfony 6.4 · Python 3.12
 ai       RAG · Knowledge Graphs · MCP Agents
 search   Qdrant + Meilisearch + LightRAG
 indexed  884 docs → 6,673 entities
 clients  39 pharma & health platforms
 langs    FR · ZH · EN
 hubs     Paris · Singapore · Shanghai
 available for new projects 

Services

Engineering that ships, with upfront pricing.

Four focused offers, from a one-day landing page to a full enterprise platform or corporate AI system. Each has a transparent starting price and a realistic delivery window.

Enterprise Web Applications

Starting at $10,000 From 1 week

Custom backends, complex API migrations, multi-client SaaS platforms, and enterprise architectures with role-based access and secure integrations, backed by 25+ years of production PHP/Symfony experience in regulated industries.

  • PHP 7–8
  • Symfony 3–6
  • MySQL / PostgreSQL
  • Doctrine ORM
  • JWT / LDAP / SAML
  • REST API

Corporate RAG Systems

Starting at $10,000 From 1 week

Turn corporate documentation, PDFs, and enterprise files into secure, high-accuracy conversational knowledge bases with hybrid retrieval (dense, keyword, and graph).

  • Python
  • Qdrant
  • Meilisearch
  • LightRAG
  • FastAPI
  • MCP

Autonomous AI Agents

Starting at $10,000 From 1 week

Codebase-aware AI assistants, multi-agent task routing, tool integration, and custom LLM workflows for the enterprise.

  • Python
  • OpenAI / LangChain
  • MCP
  • Specialist Routing
  • tree-sitter

Selected projects

Production systems and the numbers behind them.

Enterprise platforms and AI systems delivered for pharmaceutical and regulated-industry clients. Client names are withheld for confidentiality reasons.

PROJECT 01 — AI / RAG

Hybrid-Retrieval RAG System for Pharmaceutical Quality Management

A hybrid-retrieval RAG assistant that indexes internal quality-management documentation (SOPs, risk analyses, audit and supplier-qualification questionnaires) for a pharmaceutical group. It also generates a knowledge-graph wiki and supports questionnaire extraction and answers with AI.

Indexed 884 documents (868 succeeded) in a dense + keyword + knowledge-graph retrieval pipeline, which automatically extracted 6,673 entities across 425 wiki pages.

  • Python
  • Qdrant
  • Meilisearch
  • LightRAG
  • FastAPI
  • MCP server
  • Ragas

PROJECT 02 — MULTI-AGENT AI

Multi-Specialist AI Support Agent

A custom multi-agent Q&A assistant that routes end-user and support questions about a large Symfony platform across 9 specialized domains (FAQ, workflows, configuration, API usage, security/GDPR, feature planning, bug reports), with evidence-based, source-cited answers.

Acts as an AI assistant for an 800+ file, 180+ entity production Symfony 6.4 codebase.

  • Python
  • OpenAI SDK
  • MCP server
  • tree-sitter (PHP AST)
  • NetworkX

PROJECT 03 — ENTERPRISE PLATFORM

Enterprise Symfony Platform for Pharmaceutical Medical Affairs

Lead developer for a medical-information management platform that handles medical inquiries, FAQs, and pharmacovigilance and quality-complaint workflows for pharmaceutical companies.

Deployed and maintained for 39 pharmaceutical and health client projects.

  • PHP 8.3
  • Symfony 6.4
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • Meilisearch
  • JWT / LDAP
  • Twig

PROJECT 04 — REGULATORY COMPLIANCE

PSMF — Pharmacovigilance Regulatory Document System

Symfony application for the full lifecycle of Pharmacovigilance System Master Files: versioned publishing, complete audit trails and diffs, correspondence tracking, and scheduled compliance alerts.

Generates regulatory documents in multiple formats (HTML / PDF / Word) and keeps a complete version history for compliance teams.

  • PHP
  • Symfony
  • MySQL
  • Doctrine Audit
  • mPDF
  • PhpWord

PROJECT 05 — TURNKEY STATIC SITE

Studio Ma Félicité — Trilingual Event Studio Website

A custom single-page site for a Paris-based event decoration and hosting studio (weddings and anniversaries), delivered as the flagship example of the Turnkey Corporate Static Websites offer.

Fully trilingual (FR / EN / ZH), with a filterable portfolio gallery, testimonial carousel, and validated Formspree booking form.

  • HTML
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Formspree
  • i18n
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PROJECT 06 — E-LEARNING PLATFORM

Multi-Tenant LMS for Pharmaceutical Training Programs

Symfony-based learning management system that delivers SCORM-compliant course content, tracks learner progress, and manages certifications, with SAML SSO for enterprise access and dedicated theming for each client tenant.

Runs 11 branded client tenants from a single codebase, each with its own theme, configuration, and SSO integration.

  • PHP
  • Symfony
  • Doctrine ORM
  • SCORM
  • SAML SSO
  • MySQL

PROJECT 07 — HEALTHCARE MEDIA PLATFORM

Full-Stack Healthcare Content Platform

A full-stack Symfony content platform for healthcare professionals that aggregates news, congress replays, expert interviews, and podcasts, all tagged and filterable by medical specialty. Rebuilt with a public REST API and back office, it supports two navigation experiences, by content type and by univers, from one backend.

Content tagged across 40 medical specialties and 6 content verticals (univers), delivered through a public REST API that supports two navigation models.

  • PHP
  • Symfony 3.4
  • MySQL
  • Doctrine ORM
  • REST API
  • JWT
  • Elasticsearch

PROJECT 08 — INTERNAL ENTERPRISE PLATFORM

Internal Enterprise Platform

As lead developer, built a confidential enterprise operations platform covering project administration, time and leave tracking, expense approvals, organisational access controls, reporting, and engineering activity data.

A single secure workspace for operations, approvals, and reporting, with enterprise authentication and role-based access.

  • PHP 8.1
  • Symfony 6.4
  • Doctrine ORM
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
  • LDAP
  • GitLab API
  • FullCalendar

AI Engineering Lab

Open methods for reliable AI systems.

The methods behind my RAG consulting work: build the system, measure the results, and teach the workflow through practical projects.

BUILDreliable retrieval systems
MEASUREquality with evidence
LEARNwith a practical 30-day path
RAG Engineer workflow from source knowledge to grounded, cited answers Open source · Engineering method

Build reliable RAG systems

Trace problems from source documents to retrieval, grounded answers, citations, security, and production reliability.

Explore the method
RAG Evaluation workflow from traces to measured quality and readiness audits Open source · Engineering method

Measure what works

Measure AI quality with traces, metrics, validated judges, and readiness audits.

Explore the method

Locations served

  • ParisFrance, legally authorized to work, CET/CEST
  • SingaporeFull local work rights; no visa sponsorship required; SGT
  • ShanghaiChina, full market access, CST

Supported languages

  • FrançaisBilingual, with full technical and client communication
  • 中文Native, with full technical and client communication
  • EnglishProfessional, for technical documentation and delivery

Technology stack

The tools behind the work.

A focused, deep stack: enterprise PHP for platforms, Python for AI, and established search and data infrastructure underneath.

Backend & APIs

  • PHP 7–8
  • Symfony 3–6
  • Doctrine ORM
  • REST API
  • Twig

AI, RAG & Agents

  • Python
  • RAG
  • LightRAG
  • Knowledge Graphs
  • MCP
  • OpenAI / LangChain
  • FastAPI

Data & Search

  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Qdrant
  • Meilisearch
  • Elasticsearch

Frontend

  • Tailwind CSS
  • Webpack Encore

Security & Identity

  • JWT
  • LDAP
  • SSO / SAML
  • Keycloak
  • GDPR / RGPD

Operations & tooling

  • Docker
  • WSL
  • Nginx
  • Git
  • PHPUnit
  • PHPStan

Contact

Scope your project.

Tell me what you're building and your timezone. I'll give you a direct answer about feasibility, price, and delivery time.

I typically reply within one business day, in FR, ZH, or EN.