Available for AI & Backend Engineering Roles

Abdul Khaliq

Backend Systems & AI Engineer

Building end-to-end AI applications, scalable RAG architectures, real-time data pipelines, and production APIs.

Abdul Khaliq — Backend Systems & AI Engineer

System Architectures & AI Products

Engineered with a focus on high throughput, zero unnecessary API overhead, sub-second latency, and explainable models.

SaaS & Computer Vision

Iconspire — AI Icon Generator & Background Remover

Zero-cost local segmentation pipeline with end-to-end payment billing workflows
100% Local model execution (ONNX Runtime)
Architecture Highlights
  • ▹ Built local background removal pipelines using Node.js/Express and ISNet ONNX models for image segmentation with zero third-party API costs.
  • ▹ Integrated payment webhooks and sandbox checkouts via Paddle and Lemon Squeezy to handle subscription workflows.
  • ▹ Managed asynchronous image buffers and optimized asset delivery pipelines.
Node.js Express ONNX Runtime Paddle API Lemon Squeezy ISNet Model
Cloud VM & Real-Time

CommuteClear — Real-Time Traffic Alert Pipeline

Automated cloud scrapers, commute window filters, and geofenced event dedup
Architecture Highlights
  • ▹ Configured automated scrapers running on an OCI virtual machine to aggregate live traffic incidents.
  • ▹ Implemented incident deduplication algorithms, commute window alert filtering, and live routing integration.
  • ▹ Designed database schemas and real-time state synchronization using Supabase (PostgreSQL).
Python FastAPI Supabase OCI A1 VM Scrapers PostgreSQL
RAG & LLaMA 3

Sigma RAG — Video Q&A AI Teaching Assistant

Sub-2-second context retrieval with MM:SS video timestamp precision
<2s Average RAG query latency
Architecture Highlights
  • ▹ Built video transcript ingestion and vector embeddings for context-aware Q&A with sub-2-second retrieval speed.
  • ▹ Mapped generated responses directly to exact video timestamps (MM:SS) for precise student navigation.
  • ▹ Integrated Groq API LLaMA 3 acceleration with FAISS vector stores for ultra-low latency inference.
Python LangChain FAISS Groq API (LLaMA 3) FastAPI
NLP & Matching

AI Resume Screening & Candidate Ranker

87% screening accuracy with bias detection filters and semantic parsing
87% Resume & candidate matching accuracy
Architecture Highlights
  • ▹ Built NLP matching and skill extraction algorithms achieving 87% candidate screening accuracy, reducing evaluation time by 75%.
  • ▹ Implemented candidate ranking mechanisms, skill extraction, and bias detection filters.
  • ▹ Structured automated document vector search for multi-format resumes with interactive candidate comparison.
Python NLP Scikit-Learn Streamlit Vector Search
ML & Explainability

Student Performance Predictor & Explainability

84% pass/fail risk classification with deep SHAP feature-importance insights
84% Pass/fail risk classification accuracy
Architecture Highlights
  • ▹ Trained classification models on historical academic data to predict pass/fail risk with 84% accuracy.
  • ▹ Integrated SHAP explainability visualizations to provide transparent feature-importance insights.
  • ▹ Engineered proactive academic intervention triggers and deployed live on Streamlit Cloud.
Python Machine Learning XGBoost SHAP Pandas

Technical Skills Matrix

A comprehensive overview of frameworks, infrastructure, and toolsets utilized across real-world systems.

AI & RAG

Generative AI, Vector Retrieval, Local Inference
LangChain
RAG Architecture
Vector Search (FAISS)
ChromaDB
Groq API (LLaMA 3)
ONNX Runtime
Dense & Sparse Embeddings
Prompt Engineering

Backend & APIs

High Throughput Web Services, Asynchronous Tasks
FastAPI
Flask
Node.js
Express
RESTful APIs
Webhooks & Payments
Automated Data Scrapers
Async Buffers & Streams

Databases & Cloud

Distributed Storage, Cloud VMs, Deployments
Supabase (PostgreSQL)
Oracle Cloud (OCI A1 VM)
Docker & Containers
Vercel
Railway
Relational Schema Design
Real-time Sync & RLS

Data Science & ML

Model Training, Feature Attribution, Evaluation
Python
Pandas
NumPy
Scikit-Learn
XGBoost
SHAP (Model Explainability)
NLP & Normalization
Statistical Evaluation
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Low-Latency RAG Ingestion

Chunking semantic hierarchies with sub-2s Groq LPU inference, ensuring immediate retrieval and precise timestamp references.

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Zero-Cloud-Cost Local Inference

Deploying optimized ISNet and transformer models locally via ONNX Runtime to eliminate prohibitive cloud API inference fees.

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Resilient Real-Time Scrapers

Running headless scraping cron workers on OCI ARM instances with smart deduplication and Supabase PostgreSQL sync.

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