I am a Machine Learning Engineer with over 4 years of experience designing, developing, and deploying production-grade NLP and Computer Vision systems. I specialize in Neural Machine Translation (NMT), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and Large Language Models (LLMs). I have hands-on experience building scalable inference pipelines on AWS, optimizing model performance, and translating research into production-grade applications. My expertise includes Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Speech Processing, and Federated Learning. I am passionate about working on production-grade pipelines involving machine learning and large language models, continuously improving systems and applying advanced AI techniques for real-world applications.

Naveed Shahid

I am a Machine Learning Engineer with over 4 years of experience designing, developing, and deploying production-grade NLP and Computer Vision systems. I specialize in Neural Machine Translation (NMT), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and Large Language Models (LLMs). I have hands-on experience building scalable inference pipelines on AWS, optimizing model performance, and translating research into production-grade applications. My expertise includes Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Speech Processing, and Federated Learning. I am passionate about working on production-grade pipelines involving machine learning and large language models, continuously improving systems and applying advanced AI techniques for real-world applications.

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I am a Machine Learning Engineer with over 4 years of experience designing, developing, and deploying production-grade NLP and Computer Vision systems. I specialize in Neural Machine Translation (NMT), Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and Large Language Models (LLMs). I have hands-on experience building scalable inference pipelines on AWS, optimizing model performance, and translating research into production-grade applications.

My expertise includes Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Speech Processing, and Federated Learning. I am passionate about working on production-grade pipelines involving machine learning and large language models, continuously improving systems and applying advanced AI techniques for real-world applications.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert

Language

English
Advanced
Urdu
Advanced

Work Experience

Machine Learning Engineer at Alexa Translations
August 1, 2023 - Present
Developed, trained, and deployed domain-specific Machine Learning models for Machine Translation (MT). Built scalable pipelines on AWS for Neural Machine Translation (NMT), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), embedding, and classification pipelines using Transformers and very Large Language Models (vLLM) engines. Maintained a production pipeline capable of handling 1 million translation requests per day and implemented continuous learning pipelines for MT engines using RAG and Active Learning.
Natural Language Processing Engineer at Love For Data
August 1, 2023 - August 23, 2025
Developed and benchmarked a custom OCR pipeline to extract Urdu ID card data with over 95% accuracy. Implemented secure and scalable KYC biometric applications leveraging face verification, liveness detection, and ID verification for 200k monthly users at 20 requests per minute. Designed and deployed a document management system with LLM (Llama 2) for automated document classification, topic extraction, and summarization, enabling analysis and arrangement of 50+ years of classified documents.
Machine Learning Engineer (Intern) at Goddard Discovery
April 1, 2021 - August 23, 2025
Fine-tuned BERT for Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation Extraction tasks on the SemEval-2021 NLP Contribution Graph dataset achieving 70% precision. Integrated fine-tuned BERT model into an end-to-end NLP tool to analyze, extract, and arrange information from research papers into tables.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in Telecommunications at NED University of Science & Technology, Karachi, Pakistan
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021

Qualifications

Practical Data Science from AWS
January 11, 2030 - August 23, 2025
Natural Language Processing from Deeplearning.ai
January 11, 2030 - August 23, 2025
Deep Learning Specialization from Deeplearning.ai
January 11, 2030 - August 23, 2025
Machine Learning from Stanford University Online
January 11, 2030 - August 23, 2025
Software Development from UBC at edX
January 11, 2030 - August 23, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Telecommunications, Education, Professional Services, Healthcare