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Abubakar Akram

Senior AI Engineer

I build generative AI systems that hold up in production — multi-agent orchestration, agentic RAG, and the guardrails and evaluation discipline that keep them trustworthy.

Lahore, Pakistan · UTC+5 · Inside European working hours, covering US working hours

7+ yrs
Software engineering, 5 remote with North American teams
−35%
LLM spend, no measured quality regression
+30%
Agent task success after orchestration rebuild
100%
Job success on Upwork, full-stack contracts

Experience

  1. Sep 2025 — Present

    Current

    Senior AI Engineer · AIM Inc.

    Full-time · Lahore, Pakistan · Remote

    • Architected a compliance-grade multi-agent platform for a regulated industry — four specialised agents under supervisor orchestration, human-in-the-loop approval gates on high-risk actions, and a cryptographically signed, tamper-evident evidence trail so every agent decision can be reconstructed in an audit.
    • Shipped a multi-tenant agentic RAG platform letting business users query their own documents, tables and figures in natural language: hybrid retrieval on Azure AI Search, multi-index routing, and document-intelligence pipelines for layout, table and figure extraction. Every answer returns with its source citation.
    • Rebuilt agent orchestration on Semantic Kernel and AutoGen with tool calling, guardrails and deterministic fallbacks — raising task success 30% and eliminating the runaway failure loops that had been burning tokens on unrecoverable runs.
    LangGraphSemantic KernelAutoGenAzure OpenAIFastAPI.NET 8Azure AI SearchCosmos DB
  2. Feb 2023 — Jul 2025

    Full-Stack AI Engineer · Calitech AI LLC

    Independent contractor · Remote, US

    • Fine-tuned LLMs with QLoRA and built LangChain RAG pipelines for Rad AI, a HIPAA-compliant clinical platform — cutting context-aware reporting time 25%.
    • Built end-to-end MLOps infrastructure with Kafka pipelines and Airflow-orchestrated workflows spanning ingestion, training, evaluation and deployment — cutting model latency 60% and deployment cycles 50%.
    • Architected AWS infrastructure (ECS, RDS, S3, SageMaker) supporting distributed GPU training and real-time prediction APIs, while cutting cloud costs 15%.
    QLoRALangChainFastAPIKafkaAirflowAWS SageMakerReactHIPAA
  3. Jun 2020 — Jan 2023

    Full-Stack Developer · Digiance LLC

    Remote, US

    • Built a sales-outreach analytics dashboard for brands, surfacing actionable buyer insights that raised early-adopter pitch success rates 35%.
    • Engineered an automated testing and release pipeline with Jenkins and Docker, improving release confidence and reducing regression incidents.
    • Deployed scalable full-stack applications on Google Cloud (Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, GKE) with high availability and tuned resource utilisation.
    ReactTypeScriptDjangoMySQLJenkinsDockerGCP
  4. Jan 2019 — Jun 2020

    Associate Software Engineer · Devsinc

    Onsite · Pakistan

    • Developed and refactored responsive UIs for a banking application, increasing performance and maintainability 40%.
    • Secured all user-facing routes of a financial application with OAuth 2.0, OIDC and JWT, hardening authentication and session integrity.
    ReactReduxMaterial UIOAuth 2.0OIDCJWT

BSc Computer Science · COMSATS University of Information Technology · 2015 — 2019

About

Senior AI Engineer building production Generative AI for enterprise clients: multi-agent systems, agentic RAG, and document processing. 7+ years in software engineering, five of them remote with North American teams.

I start with discovery rather than code. Sit with the client, separate what they asked for from what they actually need, turn that into a design, then build and ship it — on several engagements that has meant delivering inside the client's own Azure tenant, against their data and their security review.

Recent work: a compliance platform for a regulated client, with four agents under supervisor orchestration, human approval on high-risk actions, and a signed append-only ledger an auditor can use to reconstruct every decision. Separately, a multi-tenant RAG platform serving citation-grounded answers over client documents.

Agentic AI & orchestration
LangGraphSemantic KernelAutoGenLangChainMCPAgent-to-Agent (A2A)Supervisor-workerReActPlanner-executorGuardrails & deterministic fallbacks
RAG & retrieval
Agentic RAGGraphRAGHybrid search (BM25 + dense)Multi-index routingRerankingContextual retrievalCitation-grounded generationAzure AI SearchpgvectorPinecone
LLMs & fine-tuning
Azure OpenAIOpenAIAnthropic ClaudeLlama 3LoRA / QLoRA / PEFTDPOStructured outputsFunction & tool calling
LLMOps & evaluation
Azure AI FoundryLangSmithRagasGold-set regression testsOffline & online evalsPrompt & index versioningHallucination detectionCost governance
Backend & data
PythonFastAPIDjangoNode.jsTypeScript.NET 8KafkaAzure Service BusPostgreSQLCosmos DBRedisIdempotency, retries, DLQ, backpressure
Frontend
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptRedux ToolkitZustandTailwind CSS
Cloud & DevOps
Azure (OpenAI, AI Search, Cosmos, Service Bus, Key Vault, Container Apps)AWS (SageMaker, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS)DockerKubernetesBicepGitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsAirflow

Contact

Looking for senior AI engineering roles — and open to contract work where a team needs an agent system taken from prototype to production.

Senior AI Engineer · Generative AI Engineer · Applied AI Engineer · LLM Engineer · Forward Deployed Engineer