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Engineering Manager · Researcher

I build AI systems, then research why any of them actually work

Engineering manager building AI products across edtech, fintech, and healthcare, mostly living in architecture, cloud, and deployment decisions. Also a CS researcher now, working through a thesis that keeps disagreeing with how I used to build things.

Available for select collaborations

Experience

Applied AI across healthcare, enterprise software, and data products.

2026 — Now

Graduate Researcher

University of Calgary
Calgary, Canada

Just started. Nothing to report yet beyond the thesis question still not fully forming.

  • Started a thesis-based Master's in Computer Science. Research direction is still taking shape, and I'm also TAing a course I'll let you guess at.

2025 — Now

Engineering Manager

AJAIA
New York, USA · Remote

Running architecture, cloud, and deployment decisions for AI platforms across edtech, fintech, and healthcare, while managing a team that has to agree with all of it.

  • Own architecture, cloud, and deployment decisions for AI platforms serving edtech, fintech, and healthcare clients.
  • Delivered AI platforms end to end for 18 companies, each hosted on their own private cloud, most of it built solo.
  • Took the Ethos platform beyond deployment into real product work. It's live in schools across the US now.
  • Manage a team of 8 to 12, mentoring four junior developers directly.

2024 — Now

Lead AI Engineer

Nao Medical
New York, USA · Remote

Building AI systems for a healthcare company, where getting it wrong doesn't just mean a bad review.

  • Automated mail classification end to end with LLM agents, cutting manual labor by 90%.
  • Built and shipped patient support and internal staff support chatbots.
  • Built a CDL digitization app, fully HIPAA compliant, that made filing forms easier for both providers and drivers.
  • Deployed and internally tested OpenEMR, picking up the open-source stack hands-on along the way.
  • Built and deployed Quixoa, a private internal chat app now used company-wide.
  • Automated the sales workflow with CrewAI emails, SMS, and call scripts working together increasing patient visits by 45%.
  • Ran AI-driven SEO work across the company's pages.
  • Built a file management system sorting 1,000+ documents a day at 96.9% accuracy.

2022 — 2024

Generative AI Engineer

CMB Solutions Inc.
Indianapolis, USA · Hybrid part-time

Designed LLM tools and backend automations that took enterprise workflows from manual to mostly automatic.

  • Built ChatWithSQL, a LangChain and GPT-4 system that lets non-technical people query a Postgres database in plain English, at 90% accuracy.
  • Built a RAG chatbot on Pinecone that handled 500+ support queries a day and cut incoming tickets by 40%.
  • Led an automated blog pipeline on Gemini, publishing 30+ posts a month with a 95% acceptance rate before anything went out.
  • Built Python web-scraping automation and server-side sync scripts, keeping data flowing between Dialpad, RingCentral, and the internal database without anyone touching it by hand.

2021 — 2024

Data Scientist

RnZ Technologies
Karachi, Pakistan · Remote

Built computer vision, geospatial, and multilingual AI systems that had to work outside a demo environment.

  • Built a geospatial pipeline processing 1,000+ Sentinel-2 satellite images a month, tracking vegetation health at 95% accuracy for a Saudi Irrigation Organization and KFUPM collaboration.
  • Built a multilingual meeting-minutes generator on fine-tuned BERT and Whisper, hitting 95% accuracy on Arabic translation across 200+ hours of audio a month.
  • Built a real-time energy monitoring dashboard on React and WebSocket, pulling data from 1,000+ IoT sensors and cutting energy use by 30%.

Education

2026Present

Master of Science

Computer Science

University of Calgary
Calgary, Canada

Started a thesis-based Master's, direction still taking shape.

20202024

Bachelor of Science

Computer Science

Iqra University
Karachi, Pakistan

GPA: 3.7/4.00 Spent four years on data structures, systems programming, networking, and deep learning, then found out most of it gets rewritten the moment you start actually working.

Now

Small updates from the workbench and everywhere else.

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Quote

"Some are born to enjoy illusions. Others are cursed to see the truth" ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Calgary, Canada

Started thesis based Master's in computer science. Grad school brrrrrrr.

Have a difficult AI problem?

Tell me what you are building, what is already working, and what needs to become reliable.

abdullahwasimm2112@gmail.com

Calgary, Canada · Working globally