Senior AI Engineer with 7+ years of experience building production AI products from concept to deployment.

I've worked across startups and enterprise, often joining as the first AI engineer to build AI platforms, backend systems, and customer-facing products from the ground up.

Previously:

• Founding AI Engineer at Kuration AI (Hong Kong)
• First AI hire at Luminous Power Technologies (Schneider Electric)
• Head of Data & Analytics at Brainsfeed

Currently building AI products at DataCortex IQ.

Currently open to Senior AI Engineer opportunities (Remote).

• 7+ years building production software
• Built 3 commercial AI products
• 12 Python libraries published on PyPI
• 2 peer-reviewed publications
• First AI engineer in multiple organizations
• Experience across startups and enterprise

Production AI Systems

• LLM Applications
• AI Agents
• Voice AI
• Retrieval Systems
• Backend Engineering
• Distributed Systems

Tech Stack

• Reflecta — a voice-first AI wellness app you can call on the phone. Phone check-ins → post-call analysis extracting 35+ wellness signals per call (burnout risk scoring, crisis-keyword detection) → personalised recommendations. FastAPI · Bolna telephony · Groq · Neon Postgres/pgvector · multi-provider fallback. Solo build, end-to-end.
• Godam — a B2B inventory & billing SaaS for FMCG distribution in Nepal, live in production with a paying customer. Runs the client's daily billing, payments, credit ledgers, and field-sales logging. Next.js 15 · TypeScript · Supabase. Built and sold solo.
• Stacksift — a B2B company intelligence platform running a 5-stage LLM classification pipeline (DSPy + GPT-4.1) over crawled web data at ~$0.03 per analysis (~84% gross margin), with live Razorpay payments.

12 production-ready Python libraries used by developers building AI systems.

Library	Downloads	What it does
RAGNav		RAG routing & retrieval — hybrid BM25 + dense with RRF fusion. R@3 = 0.956 on SQuAD, 131 tests
ragfallback		Resilient retrieval — query rewriting, confidence scoring, fallback & retry
AgentEnsemble		Multi-agent orchestration — ReAct, Swarm, Pipeline, Debate, WorkflowGraph
AgentCare		Voice AI for healthcare — call intake, structured extraction, appointment orchestration
nepal-gov-agent		Multilingual RAG over Nepal government documents, with a synthetic QA evaluation harness
AskPandas		Natural-language queries on CSV via local LLMs — no API keys, no cloud
PyroChain		Agentic feature engineering — PyTorch + LangChain agents for multimodal extraction
scrapeflow-py		Playwright scraping with LLM extraction, hybrid selectors, anti-detection
lingo-nlp-toolkit		Lightweight NLP utilities bridging classic pipelines and transformer workflows
toxic-comment-classifier		Deep-learning toxicity detection with per-category scoring
socialmediaextractor		Structured data extraction from social media profiles and posts
trustpilot-scraper		Review collection and structuring from Trustpilot pages

→ All libraries on my PyPI profile.

• Mental Health AI on MentalChat16K — BERT + neural networks on a cross-validation framework · IJAINN, Dec 2025 · DOI
• Neural-Symbolic Topic Evolution on Yelp Reviews — multi-aspect temporal topic modelling · IJAINN, Oct 2025 · DOI

📫 irfan.ali@datacortex.in · LinkedIn · Résumé (PDF)

_{Reliability over hype · Systems over scripts · Maintainability over short-term hacks.}