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MOHAMMAD QATAADAH ZAKIR

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AI Engineer specializing in production-ready AI applications, LLM systems, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and scalable backend infrastructure.

About

AI Engineer specializing in production-ready AI applications, LLM systems, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and scalable backend infrastructure. Experienced designing and deploying AI applications using Python, FastAPI, Docker, AWS, and vector databases with a focus on reliable, high-performance deployment.

Open to AI Engineering opportunities with accredited New Zealand employers and relocation. Seeking roles with visa sponsorship under the Accredited Employer Work Visa pathway.

  • 4 years' experience
  • Joined October 2025

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Education
  • Professional Services
  • Other
  • Computers & Electronics

Work experience

Contract AI Software Engineer · Independent technical consulting practiceJun 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

Designed and delivered production-ready LLM pipelines and automated infrastructure for international clients. Built AI-powered applications using Python, TensorFlow/PyTorch, and Supabase, implementing LLM integrations, embeddings, vector search, and secure API endpoints to reduce inference latency (~35%). Developed AI-driven automation systems for data extraction and workflow orchestration using LLMs, web scraping, and scheduling/queues with REST APIs and cloud functions to reduce manual processing time (~50%). Architected and optimized scalable end-to-end AI pipelines integrating preprocessing, embedding generation, vector database indexing (FAISS/pgvector), and FastAPI serving layers, improving retrieval accuracy (~25%) and throughput (~30%) under concurrent workloads.

Founder / AI Powered Debugger (MVP) · ENDERApr 2022 – Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Built an AI-powered debugger MVP that detects errors, suggests context-aware fixes, visualizes code execution, and supports multiple languages. Debugging is carried out via llama-cpp inferencing to a fine-tuned Mistral-7B model. Tech stack included React, Python, WebSocket, FastAPI, and JSON.

Sales Advisor | Technical Support Specialist · Concentrix (Apple)Apr 2021 – Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Provided remote sales and technical support for Apple products; contributed to revenue generation and customer satisfaction; promoted to Technical Support Specialist within two months.

Education

B.Eng (Hons) Software Engineering · Memorial University of Newfoundland2023 – 2025
B.Eng. (Hons) Software Engineering · University of Greater Manchester (formerly University of Bolton)2030 – 2025
B.Eng. Computer Engineering (Credit transfer) · Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN)2022 – 2026

Certifications and awards· 5

HarvardX: Computer Science for Python Programming2030 – 2025
HarvardX: AI Applications with Watson2030 – 2025
IBM: Python Basics for Data Science2030 – 2025
IBM: Software Development Lifecycle2030 – 2025

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