Experience

Roles, responsibilities, and what I shipped.

Founder & Technical Lead

Smart Hire AI

2024 – Present

Lahore, Pakistan

Founded and technically lead an AI-powered recruitment platform that automates the full hiring lifecycle — sourcing, screening, interviewing, and analytics. Active enterprise pilots; UMT HR department requested platform adoption. Best FYP Award — UMT Software Engineering Department 2026.

  • Architected polyglot microservices: Next.js 15 + two FastAPI services (business domain + AI/RAG)
  • Natural-language candidate search via LangGraph + Cohere 1024-d + DuckDB + Groq Llama-3.x re-ranking
  • AI voice interviews on Vapi with real-time transcription and MediaPipe/TF.js video proctoring
  • WhatsApp + voice outreach with multi-language detection and fake-candidate scoring
  • ARQ Redis-backed task queue, Azure VM + Nginx + systemd, Railway Cloud, GitHub Actions CI/CD

Next.js 15 · FastAPI · LangGraph · Cohere · Groq · DuckDB · PostgreSQL/Prisma · Redis/ARQ · Vapi · Meta WhatsApp Cloud API · Zoom S2S OAuth · Azure VM · Railway Cloud

AI Data Evaluator

Appen

2026 – Present

Remote · Part-time, Contract

Evaluating AI audio outputs for quality and accuracy as part of a contract-based engagement with Appen Australia.

  • Assessing AI-generated audio for quality, accuracy, and adherence to evaluation criteria

AI Engineer

Introva

October 2025 – May 2026

Remote

Architected and shipped generative AI SaaS platforms combining RAG pipelines, multi-agent orchestration, and full-stack delivery. Worked across production AI systems including OCR, agent frameworks, and AI-generated frontends.

  • Hebrew OCR pipeline at 96% accuracy across thousands of multi-column historical texts — Google Vision + custom layout detection + 23,000+ word lexical post-processor + Sefaria API
  • Full-stack generative AI portfolio platform that converts résumés into customisable web portfolios with an embedded AI code editor
  • Multi-agent systems for task automation and workflow orchestration using LangGraph, Google ADK, and MCP
  • RAG pipelines over large knowledge bases using Cohere/Gemini embeddings, ChromaDB, and FAISS with grounded citations

LangChain · LangGraph · LlamaIndex · Google ADK · MCP · ElevenLabs · Vertex AI · ChromaDB · FAISS · Gemini · OpenAI · FastAPI · React · Azure VM

Software Engineer

Eventus Sol

May 2023 – October 2025

Remote

Delivered multiple production MERN-stack applications and integrated generative AI features into live customer products. Worked across frontend and backend, owned features end-to-end, and collaborated directly with designers, stakeholders, and clients.

  • Built and shipped multiple production MERN-stack applications with embedded GenAI features (RAG chatbots, semantic search, LLM-assisted content)
  • Owned full-stack feature delivery: REST API design, frontend perf, cross-browser QA, Agile sprints against client deadlines
  • Backend services on Node.js / Express and FastAPI; integrated vector DBs (ChromaDB, Supabase), payment gateways (Stripe, Dodo Payments), and AI providers (Groq, OpenAI, Vapi)
  • Partnered directly with designers, stakeholders, and clients to translate business requirements into shipped technical solutions

TypeScript · React · Next.js · Node · Express · FastAPI · LangChain · LangGraph · LlamaIndex · RAG · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · ChromaDB · Supabase · Redis · Prisma · Vercel · Firebase · Azure · Docker · GitHub Actions

Teaching

Fall 2025

CC1022 Object-Oriented Programming

Teaching Assistant · UMT

Fall 2025

CC1041 Discrete Structures

Teaching Assistant · UMT

Leadership & Community

2025

Director of Management

UMT Anti-Narcotics Society

2023

Head of Volunteers

UMT Social Welfare Society

Education

BS in Software Engineering

University of Management and Technology, Lahore

October 2022 – July 2026

CGPA: 3.35 / 4.0

Thesis (FYP): Smart Hire AI — Agent-Driven Automated Recruitment System with AI Interview Capabilities.

Best FYP Award — Software Engineering Department 2026. Smart Grade AI accepted for institutional integration into UMT LMS.

Teaching Assistant — OOP (Fall '25) and Discrete Structures (Fall '25).

Coursework: Machine Learning · NLP · Deep Learning & Neural Networks · Data Science · System Design & Architecture · Database Systems · Software Design Patterns & Refactoring.

Chartered Accountancy (CA) — Partial

Completed 2 levels — 9 papers out of 21

Financial Accounting · Economics · Business Finance · Loan Management · Financial Reporting · Business Communications

Intermediate in Computer Science

Punjab Group of Colleges

2018 – 2020

894 / 1100 (A+)

Major: Physics · Mathematics · Computer Science