Experience

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology

M.S. in Data Science | May 2024

GPA: 3.90/4.00 | Fulbright Scholar

Thesis: Vicarious Interaction Annotation with LLMs for Peace Promotion

Course Highlights: Advanced NLP, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Advanced Algorithms

Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi

B.S. in Computer Science | August 2020

GPA: 3.90/4.00 | Gold Medalist

Teaching Assistant: Algorithms & Data Structures

Work Experience

Senior AI Engineer, Careem GenAI Team

Jan 2025 – Present | Dubai, UAE

  • Architected and deployed RAG-based workflows for customer-care automation using LangChain and OpenAI APIs, reducing average resolution time by 40%
  • Designed fault-tolerant storage and indexing solutions on DynamoDB and S3 for high-throughput embedding retrieval across 10M+ documents

Visiting Faculty, Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi

Spring 2025 & Fall 2025

  • Computer Vision (Spring 2025): Teaching undergraduate course covering foundational and modern deep learning techniques, computer vision algorithms, and practical applications
  • MLOps and LLMOps (Fall 2025): Teaching graduate-level course on machine learning operations, deployment strategies, and production systems for LLMs
  • Building LLM Systems (Fall 2025): Teaching advanced course on designing, building, and deploying Large Language Model applications and systems

AI Engineer (Senior SDE R&D), Afiniti

Jul 2024 – Dec 2024 | Virginia, USA

  • Optimized pairing engine by 30% by migrating data processing to Polars and parallelizing feature extraction pipelines over Spark clusters

Graduate Assistant & Researcher, Rochester Institute of Technology

2022 – 2024

  • Graduate TA (Software for Data Science): Mentored students, graded assignments, and conducted research on software engineering practices in data science workflows
  • Research Assistant (Social Insight Lab): Led research on de-escalation language detection, developing Transformer-based classifiers (BERT) achieving an F1 score of 0.87
  • STEP CS Tutor: Assisted students from under-represented groups in foundational computer science and programming courses

Software Engineer, Airlift Technologies

Jul 2020 – Jan 2022 | Lahore, Pakistan

  • Developed core distributed modules (e.g., Order Batching) in Node.js and Python, supporting 10k+ daily orders with 20% lower latency
  • Led a team of 7 in migrating a monolith to microservices on AWS (ECS, SQS, RDS), improving system scalability and fault tolerance

Skills

Languages: Python, Java, C++, Go, SQL, JavaScript

ML/DS: PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, OpenAI SDK, Scikit-learn, Polars, NLTK, OpenCV

Systems & Cloud: AWS (Lambda, ECS, S3, DynamoDB), Kubernetes, Docker, Spark, Kafka, Terraform, GCP

Algorithms & Theory: Distributed Algorithms, Optimization, Data Structures, System Design, Time Series Analysis

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