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.

MOHAMMAD QATAADAH ZAKIR

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.

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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.

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Language

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Work Experience

Contract AI Software Engineer at Independent technical consulting practice
June 1, 2023 - January 1, 2025
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) at ENDER
April 1, 2022 - October 16, 2025
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 at Concentrix (Apple)
April 1, 2021 - October 16, 2025
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 at Memorial University of Newfoundland
January 1, 2023 - May 1, 2025
B.Eng. (Hons) Software Engineering at University of Greater Manchester (formerly University of Bolton)
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2025
B.Eng. Computer Engineering (Credit transfer) at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN)
January 1, 2022 - July 19, 2026

Qualifications

HarvardX: Computer Science for Python Programming
January 11, 2030 - October 16, 2025
HarvardX: AI Applications with Watson
January 11, 2030 - October 16, 2025
IBM: Python Basics for Data Science
January 11, 2030 - October 16, 2025
IBM: Software Development Lifecycle
January 11, 2030 - October 16, 2025
IBM: Generative AI LLMs (NCA-GENL)
January 11, 2030 - October 16, 2025

Industry Experience

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