Engineer · AI · Founder — velocity is the point
Agents, LLMs, production APIs — if it's moving, I'm already on it. Not here to debate slide decks; here to get working software out the door and level up while I do it.
About
5+ yrs
Senior IC work — not ticket-chasing; owning slices end to end.
40+
Shipped projects — prototypes, APIs, agents, and things that had to stay up.
Multi-domain
Fintech, platforms, real-time systems — I compress time to clarity in new contexts.
I'm Ashad. I didn't pick this field to coast on buzzwords — I like winning on substance: models that behave in production, orchestration that doesn't fall over under load, and interfaces that don't insult the user's time.
Founders don't need another person who needs six weeks to "ramp." You need someone who reads the repo, spots the leverage, and has a PR sketch before the meeting notes are done. I use every tool that shortens that loop — including the ones that didn't exist two years ago — without mistaking demos for delivery.
I'm direct, I'm impatient with theater, and I'm allergic to hiding behind process when the answer is to build the thing and measure it. If that sounds like the kind of person you want in the room when the roadmap is on fire — scroll on, then let's talk.
Experience
Fyltr · Remote
Present
Office Field (TradersGPT | Aiversity) · Karachi
July 2025 – Present
FireBird Technologies · Singapore (remote)
Aug 2024 – June 2025
FAST-NUCES · Karachi
Sep 2024 – Dec 2024
RAIN · Dallas (remote)
Sep 2023 – May 2024
Community
PROCOM' 24
FAST, Karachi · Dec. 2023 - Apr. 2024
ACM Coders' Cup 2023
FAST, Karachi · Oct. - Dec. 2023
Developers' Day - ACM NUCES
FAST, Karachi · Mar. - May 2023
PROCOM' 23
FAST, Karachi · Jan. - Apr. 2023
Open source
A selection of repos — LLMs, CV, tooling, and experiments.
Developed an intelligent webpage summarizer API generating concise markdowns.
Created a lightweight API to chat with Llama3 via Groq and HuggingFace Spaces.
Built a fast, Rust-based natural language to SQL translator for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.
Fine-tuned Gemma2B LLM on climate Q&A using LoRA for parameter-efficient adaptation.
Developed a hackathon project for evaluating chat quality and engagement.
Implemented a system for colorizing grayscale images using CNN and UNet on CIFAR-10.
Created a panorama stitching pipeline with feature detection and homography.
An intelligent interior design assistant powered by autonomous Vision-Language Model (VLM) agents.
Developed a system to automate PowerPoint presentations creation.
Compared heuristic, classical RL, and quantum RL approaches in grid-world environments.
Created a comprehensive compilation of ML and DL mini-projects in Python.
Developed quantum ML classification using feature maps and custom circuits.
Built a tool to auto-clean old Python virtual environments and logs.
Created a system to automate sending emails using Python + Selenium.
Developed an email scraping tool using Python and LinkedIn search.
Created a bulk certificate sending automation script with tracking capabilities.
Solved cryptography challenges based on SEED Labs for key encryption.
Built an automation tool that dominates Monkeytype typing practice using Selenium.
Created a fact-checking AI to validate generated content against reliable sources.
Developed a 2048 game AI solver achieving high scores with heuristics.
Built a real-time chat app with React + Go backend using WebSockets.
Created professional LaTeX templates for proposals, reports, and documentation.
Developed an Information Retrieval (IR) system with inverted indexes and clustering.
Education
FAST, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
Karachi, Pakistan · 2021 - Present
GPA: 3.8 / 4.0
Information Retrieval · Quantum Computing · Object Oriented Programming · Design and Analysis of Algorithms · Artificial Intelligence · Software Engineering · Computer Networks · Operating Systems · Database Systems · Computer Vision · Probability & Statistics · MicroEconomics · Accounts & Finance
Skills
Credentials
Coursera
Supervised & unsupervised learning algorithms, Neural Networks, Clustering Algorithms & Analysis, PCA
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NLP, Computer Vision, Time series prediction, Convolutional & Recurrent Neural networks, LSTMs
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Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization
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Concepts and applications of LLMs
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Overview of AI-generated content and applications
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Leverage generative AI to enhance development, optimize code, and speed up prototyping.
View certificateLabLab AI Hackathon Event
Participated and successfully completed the hackathon
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Participated and successfully completed Edge Runners 3.2
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Participated and successfully completed Llama 3 Hackathon
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Open to conversations on AI systems, agents, and early-stage product work.
Email · ashad001sp@gmail.com
Location · Karachi, Pakistan