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Numair Fahad

AI / ML Engineer · Full-Stack MERN Developer

About — AI Engineer

Building intelligent systems that turn data into decisions.

I'm Numair Fahad, an AI Engineer and Computer Science student at NUTECH with a research-to-product mindset. I design end-to-end machine learning pipelines, train and evaluate models on real-world datasets, and deploy AI-powered features inside full-stack applications. My work spans supervised learning, feature engineering, LLM integration, and production deployment — combining rigorous ML practice with the engineering velocity needed to ship.

I'm actively seeking AI Engineer, ML Engineer, ML Specialist, AI Researcher, Full Stack Developer, and MERN Stack Developer roles where I can help teams move from prototype to production.

$ currently learning

Learning Python in advance and depth

Alongside shipping projects, I'm deliberately going deeper into advanced Python — data model and dunder methods, decorators, generators and iterators, typing and Pydantic validation, concurrency with asyncio and multiprocessing, memory and performance profiling, packaging, testing with pytest, and clean architecture for ML codebases. The goal is production-grade Python: readable, typed, tested, and fast enough to serve real models under load.

Advanced OOP & dunder methodsDecorators & generatorsasyncio & concurrencyTyping + Pydanticpytest & TDDProfiling & optimisationPackaging & clean architecture
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AI / ML skills at a glance

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Credentials

Certificates & documents

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  • AI/ML Internship Completion Certificate — Zynvex Solutions

    Zynvex Solutions · 2026 · PDF

    Official certificate (ref ZYNVEX-CERT-0487) for the 6-week remote Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning internship, including the LearnTube GenAI capstone.

  • Internship Experience Letter — Health and Psychiatry Services

    Health and Psychiatry Services (Tampa, Florida, USA) · Aug 2024 – Jul 2025 · PDF

    Signed experience letter certifying a one-year internship as a data processor and programmer — data processing, financial reporting, and compliance support.

  • Internship Completion Certificate — DawoodTech NextGen

    DawoodTech NextGen · 2026 · PDF

    Official certificate awarding successful completion of the DawoodTech NextGen full-stack internship program.

  • LearnTube Capstone Project Report — Zynvex Solutions

    Zynvex Solutions (AI/ML Internship) · 2026 · PDF

    Full technical report for the LearnTube AI YouTube Learning Assistant capstone built during the 6-week remote AI/ML internship.

  • Diploma — Hillsborough Community College

    Hillsborough Community College (Tampa, FL) · USA · PDF

    Official diploma from Hillsborough Community College, covering the US academic coursework completed before continuing Computer Science at NUTECH.

  • Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Membership Certificate

    Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (via Hillsborough Community College) · Honor Society · PDF

    Official membership certificate for Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society recognising academic excellence among two-year college students.

  • Certificate of Fundamentals of Written Communication — HCC

    Hillsborough Community College · USA · PDF

    Academic certificate recognising completion of the Fundamentals of Written Communication program — technical writing and documentation skills.

  • Computer Programming for Everyone — University of Leeds

    University of Leeds (FutureLearn) · Certificate of Achievement · PDF

    Programming fundamentals: algorithms, control flow, data structures, and problem decomposition.

  • Learn to Code for the Web — University of Leeds

    University of Leeds (FutureLearn) · Certificate of Achievement · PDF

    Web development foundations — HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for building interactive interfaces.

  • Creating a Great User Experience for Mobile Apps — University of Leeds

    University of Leeds (FutureLearn) · Certificate of Achievement · PDF

    Mobile UX design principles — usability, accessibility, and interaction patterns for app interfaces.

  • Robotic Future — University of Sheffield

    University of Sheffield (FutureLearn) · Certificate of Achievement · PDF

    Robotics and autonomous systems — sensing, control, AI in robotics, and the societal impact of automation.

  • Microsoft Excel Yellow Belt Credential

    Yellow Belt Certification · Credential · PDF

    Spreadsheet proficiency credential — formulas, data cleaning, analysis, and reporting workflows.

  • Microsoft Access Yellow Belt Credential

    Yellow Belt Certification · Credential · PDF

    Relational database credential — table design, queries, forms, and reporting in Microsoft Access.

  • Microsoft PowerPoint Yellow Belt Credential

    Yellow Belt Certification · Credential · PDF

    Presentation and technical-communication credential — structuring and delivering clear stakeholder decks.

AI / ML specialties

Roles I'm built for

Overlapping AI/ML disciplines I actively work in — each with the concrete keywords, tools, and problems I own end-to-end.

AI Engineer

Applied AI · Production

Ship LLM-powered features into real apps: prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, evals, guardrails, and API integration.

  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • OpenAI / Gemini APIs
  • LangChain
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Vector DBs
  • Evaluations
  • Guardrails

ML Engineer

Pipelines · MLOps

End-to-end ML systems: data prep, training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring on tabular and text data.

  • scikit-learn
  • XGBoost
  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • Pipelines
  • Model Serving
  • FastAPI
  • Docker

ML Specialist

Modeling · Evaluation

Deep focus on model quality: feature engineering, class-imbalance handling, cross-validation, and rigorous metrics.

  • Feature Engineering
  • SMOTE
  • PCA
  • Cross-Validation
  • Hyperparameter Tuning
  • ROC/AUC
  • Confusion Matrix

AI Researcher

Experiments · Papers

Read, reproduce, and adapt recent ML/NLP research; run controlled experiments and document findings clearly.

  • Literature Review
  • Reproducibility
  • Ablations
  • Benchmarks
  • NLP
  • Representation Learning
  • Jupyter

Data Scientist

Insight · Storytelling

Turn messy data into decisions: EDA, statistical analysis, visualization, and stakeholder-ready narratives.

  • EDA
  • pandas
  • NumPy
  • Matplotlib
  • Seaborn
  • SQL
  • A/B Testing
  • Statistics

NLP Engineer

Language · Text

Text classification, entity extraction, embeddings, and semantic search powered by transformer models.

  • Transformers
  • HuggingFace
  • Embeddings
  • Semantic Search
  • Tokenization
  • spaCy
  • NLTK

Computer Vision (Emerging)

Images · Detection

Working knowledge of CV fundamentals — CNNs, image classification, and transfer learning for real-world datasets.

  • CNNs
  • OpenCV
  • Transfer Learning
  • Image Classification
  • Keras

GenAI / LLM Developer

Agents · Chat

Design LLM-driven experiences: chat, resume review, JD generation, and structured output for full-stack products.

  • Gemini
  • GPT
  • Structured Output
  • Function Calling
  • Agents
  • Streaming
  • Chatbots

AI Prompt Engineer

Prompts · Evals

Design, version, and evaluate prompts as production assets: system-prompt architecture, few-shot design, JSON-mode contracts, and regression evals against golden datasets.

  • System Prompts
  • Few-Shot
  • Chain-of-Thought
  • JSON Mode
  • Prompt Versioning
  • Eval Harness
  • Guardrails
  • Token / Cost Tuning
  • Jailbreak Testing

Deep Learning Engineer

Neural Nets · Training

Build and train neural architectures end-to-end: CNNs for vision, RNN/LSTM and transformers for sequences, with transfer learning and careful regularization.

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Keras
  • CNNs
  • RNN / LSTM / GRU
  • Transformers
  • Transfer Learning
  • Dropout / BatchNorm
  • Loss Functions
  • GPU Training

MLOps Engineer

Deploy · Monitor

Take models from notebook to service: reproducible pipelines, model/artifact versioning, containerised serving, and drift plus latency monitoring.

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD
  • Model Registry
  • Experiment Tracking
  • Batch / Realtime Inference
  • Monitoring
  • Drift Detection
  • ONNX Runtime

AI / RAG Systems Engineer

Retrieval · Grounding

Build grounded retrieval systems: chunking strategy, embedding choice, hybrid search, re-ranking, and citation-backed answers that resist hallucination.

  • Chunking
  • Embeddings
  • ChromaDB
  • Hybrid Search
  • Re-ranking
  • Citations
  • Context Windows
  • sentence-transformers

AI Agent Developer

Tools · Orchestration

Compose multi-step agents that call tools and APIs safely — planning, tool schemas, retries, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.

  • Tool Calling
  • Multi-Step Planning
  • n8n AI Agents
  • State Machines
  • Retries / Fallbacks
  • Human-in-the-Loop
  • Observability

Applied Data / ML Analyst

Metrics · Decisions

Bridge data and product: define metrics, build feature sets from SQL, and validate whether a model actually moves the business number.

  • SQL
  • Feature Stores
  • Cohort Analysis
  • Baselines
  • Error Analysis
  • Dashboards
  • Reporting

What my availability means

Global availability

Countries & regions I serve

I work with teams across major tech hubs and am set up for remote collaboration, hybrid schedules, and onsite engagement where feasible.

  • United Kingdom

    Open to remote, hybrid, and onsite AI/ML and full-stack roles across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

    RemoteHybridOnsite
  • United States

    Available for US-based opportunities — remote, hybrid, or onsite — with a strong network in the Tampa, Florida region.

    RemoteHybridOnsite
  • Canada

    Open to Canadian teams hiring AI/ML engineers, full-stack developers, and MERN specialists — remote, hybrid, or onsite.

    RemoteHybridOnsite
  • Pakistan

    Based in Pakistan with local internship experience; open to remote, hybrid, and onsite roles nationwide.

    RemoteHybridOnsite
  • Worldwide remote

    Happy to collaborate with every country-based team globally on AI research, ML engineering, and full-stack product work — remote, hybrid, or onsite where feasible.

    RemoteHybridOnsite

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AI / ML highlights

Featured AI & data projects

A mix of production ML pipelines, applied AI products, and data foundations — each with clear impact, stack, and next steps.

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Classical ML · Cybersecurity/vpn-ml

AI-Enhanced VPN Traffic Classifier

Encrypted-traffic ML pipeline that classifies VPN vs non-VPN flows using only metadata — no payload inspection.

98.63%
Test accuracy on the ISCX VPN-nonVPN dataset
Pythonscikit-learnXGBoostSMOTEPCAPandasNumPyMatplotlib
Generative AI · RAG/learntube

LearnTube — AI YouTube Learning Assistant

RAG application that converts any YouTube video into a grounded chat, summary, quiz, and flashcards — on web and native mobile.

~85%
Query intent-classification accuracy routing RAG skills
PythonFastAPIGoogle GeminiChromaDBsentence-transformersscikit-learnReactExpo
Applied AI · Full-Stack/smarthire

SmartHire AI — Job Portal

MERN job portal with AI resume review and AI-generated job descriptions, built for students, recruiters, and admins.

3 roles
End-to-end dashboards with AI-powered workflows
ReactRedux ToolkitNode.jsExpressMongoDBSocket.IOGemini APIOpenAI API
Data Engineering · ML Prep/clinical-data-pipeline

Clinical Data QA & Reporting Pipeline

Reproducible data-processing workflow for a clinical services team — cleaning, validation, and reporting at scale.

↑ accuracy
Improved reporting accuracy and turnaround time
PythonSQLExcelData QAReportingETL
Impact highlights
98.63%
Test accuracy on encrypted VPN traffic classifier
End-to-end
ML pipeline from preprocessing to evaluation
LLM-powered
Resume review & JD generation in production MERN apps
20+
Active tools across ML, backend, frontend & DevOps
Core AI / ML skills

Supervised ML

Random Forest, XGBoost, logistic regression, SVMs, cross-validation, hyperparameter tuning, and model selection on tabular data.

Feature Engineering

Preprocessing, scaling, SMOTE for class imbalance, PCA for dimensionality reduction, and domain-aware feature extraction.

Evaluation & Metrics

Accuracy, precision/recall, F1-score, ROC-AUC, confusion matrices, feature importance, and latency-aware inference testing.

LLM & Applied AI

Gemini and OpenAI API integration, prompt engineering, AI resume review, job description generation, and agentic workflows via n8n.

MLOps & Deployment

Jupyter-based experimentation, model serialization, REST API serving with Node/Python, and deployment on Vercel, Railway, and Azure.

Data & Security Foundation

Pandas/NumPy data workflows, SQL/NoSQL persistence, Linux tooling, and a cybersecurity background that informs responsible AI design.

Experience timeline

Roles, dates, and what I shipped.

A chronological look at where I've worked, the problems I solved, and the tools I used to ship real product.

Work context
3 of 3 role(s)
Availability over time
RemoteHybridOnsite
Data Processor & Programmer (Intern)
Health and Psychiatry Services
Full Stack Engineer (Intern)
DawoodTech NextGen
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Intern
Zynvex Solutions
2024
2025
2026
2027
  1. Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Intern

    Zynvex Solutions · Remote
    Jul 2026 – Aug 2026 · 6 weeks

    Completed a 6-week remote AI/ML internship covering the full applied-ML curriculum — data wrangling and EDA, classical ML, deep learning, and a GenAI capstone (LearnTube) shipped to production on web and mobile.

    • Data foundations (Labs 2–4): NumPy/Pandas pipelines, data cleaning (median/mean imputation, duplicate removal, text standardization, IQR outlier handling), and visualization with Matplotlib/Seaborn.
    • EDA assignment on NYC Airbnb listings: outlier treatment on price and minimum_nights, feature engineering (price_category), and univariate → multivariate analysis with actionable recommendations.
    • Classical ML (Labs 6–10): train/test splits, StandardScaler workflows, regression (linear, multiple, polynomial — MSE/RMSE/R²), classification (Logistic Regression, KNN, Decision Tree), and feature engineering.
    • Model evaluation: confusion matrix, precision/recall, F1, ROC-AUC, cross-validation, hyperparameter tuning, and decision-threshold analysis on the Titanic dataset.
    • End-to-end regression project: insurance cost prediction packaged as a reusable `insurance_model.joblib` artifact.
    • Deep learning (Labs 11–14): neural-network fundamentals, dense image classifiers, CNNs on Fashion-MNIST, and RNN/LSTM/GRU sequence models on IMDB sentiment data.
    • Deep-learning assignment: Telco customer-churn prediction with a Keras model exported as `churn_model.keras`.
    • Capstone — LearnTube (AI YouTube Learning Assistant): a FastAPI + Gemini RAG service that turns any YouTube video into a summary, quiz, flashcards, and a transcript-grounded chat with [MM:SS] citations; React/Vite web app plus an Expo/React Native iOS + Android app — walkthrough available as a demo video, screenshots, and full project report.
    • Built LearnTube's retrieval stack: transcript ingestion (youtube-transcript-api / yt-dlp), semantic chunking with timestamps, sentence-transformers embeddings in ChromaDB, and a TF-IDF + Logistic Regression intent classifier (~85% accuracy) routing queries.
    remotePythonPandasNumPyMatplotlibSeabornscikit-learnTensorFlowKerasCNNsRNN / LSTM / GRUTF-IDFLogistic RegressionFastAPIUvicornPydanticGoogle Gemini FlashRAGChromaDBsentence-transformersHuggingFaceSQLAlchemySQLitePyJWTslowapiReactViteTypeScriptTailwind CSSshadcn/uiFramer MotionTanStack QueryExpo / React NativeExpo RouterClerk AuthGit & GitHub
  2. Full Stack Engineer (Intern)

    DawoodTech NextGen · Remote
    Apr 2026 – Jun 2026

    Completed a Full Stack Engineer internship focused on building and improving production MERN stack web applications end-to-end.

    • Developed responsive frontend interfaces using React.js, Redux Toolkit, Tailwind CSS, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
    • Built and integrated backend REST APIs with Node.js and Express.js for authentication, dashboards, job management, file uploads, and application workflows.
    • Implemented secure user authentication and role-based access using JWT, Bcrypt.js, and protected routes.
    • Designed and managed MongoDB models, CRUD operations, validations, relationships, and seed data.
    • Integrated file uploads via Multer + Cloudinary for resumes and profile images, and real-time notifications with Socket.IO.
    • Added email notifications using Nodemailer for account updates and application alerts.
    • Integrated AI APIs (Gemini / OpenAI) for resume review and job description generation.
    • Deployed and tested full-stack applications on Vercel and Microsoft Azure App Service with production environment variables; managed workflow via Git & GitHub.
    remoteReact.jsRedux ToolkitTailwind CSSHTML5CSS3JavaScriptNode.jsExpress.jsMongoDBREST APIsJWTBcrypt.jsMulterCloudinarySocket.IONodemailerGemini APIOpenAI APIVercelAzureGitGitHub
  3. Data Processor & Programmer (Intern)

    Health and Psychiatry Services · Tampa, FL
    Aug 2024 – Jul 2025

    Processed and validated large operational datasets, improving reporting accuracy and pipeline efficiency for a clinical services team.

    • Cleaned, validated, and transformed large operational datasets used for downstream reporting and analytics.
    • Improved reporting accuracy and turnaround time by streamlining recurring data-processing workflows.
    • Collaborated cross-functionally with clinical and operations staff to strengthen data quality assurance.
    • Documented processing steps to make pipelines reproducible and auditable for future team members.
    • Prepared recurring financial reports and supported compliance with tax and regulatory requirements.
    onsitePythonSQLExcelData QAReportingCompliance
Education
Current
National University of Technology (NUTECH) logo
National University of Technology (NUTECH)
B.S. Computer Science
Islamabad, PK
Jan 2025 – May 2025
University of South Florida
B.S. Computer Science
  • Tau Sigma National Honor Society crestTau Sigma National Honor Society2025
Tampa, FL
Aug 2023 – Dec 2024
Hillsborough Community College
A.A. Computer Science · Dean's List
  • Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society crestPhi Theta Kappa Honor Society2023 – 2024
Tampa, FL
Sep 2022 – Sep 2023
Bahria University logo
Bahria University
B.S. Computer Science
Islamabad, PK
2020 – 2022
Beaconhouse Karakoram Campus logo
Beaconhouse Karakoram Campus
GCE AS & A Level — Computer Science
Islamabad, PK
Honor Societies

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Tau Sigma National Honor Society crest

Tau Sigma National Honor Society

National honor society for transfer students who earn a 3.5+ GPA in their first term at a four-year university.

University of South Florida · 2025
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society crest

Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society

International honor society recognizing academic achievement among two-year college students.

Hillsborough Community College · 2023 – 2024
Certifications & Honors
Languages
Urdu — NativeEnglish — FluentPunjabi — Native