Software engineer with five years of full-stack experience, currently focused on building and shipping production AI agent systems. Architected and deployed a multi-agent LLM platform on physical robots, built evaluation pipelines with CI benchmark gates, and delivered production AI and SaaS features across AWS/GCP with strong monitoring, reliability, and cloud-native delivery.

Salik Saleem

Software engineer with five years of full-stack experience, currently focused on building and shipping production AI agent systems. Architected and deployed a multi-agent LLM platform on physical robots, built evaluation pipelines with CI benchmark gates, and delivered production AI and SaaS features across AWS/GCP with strong monitoring, reliability, and cloud-native delivery.

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Software engineer with five years of full-stack experience, currently focused on building and shipping production AI agent systems.

Architected and deployed a multi-agent LLM platform on physical robots, built evaluation pipelines with CI benchmark gates, and delivered production AI and SaaS features across AWS/GCP with strong monitoring, reliability, and cloud-native delivery.

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Language

Hindi
Advanced
Urdu
Advanced
English
Fluent
Arabic
Advanced

Work Experience

AI Software Engineer at Western Sydney University
August 1, 2025 - Present
Architected and shipped a production multi-agent Python system on SoftBank Pepper robots, orchestrating LLM inference, FastAPI services, and cloud APIs into a reliable agentic pipeline with zero incidents across multiple public events. Used LangGraph multi-step orchestration and prompt engineering to coordinate autonomous agent decisions against hardware and cloud APIs, reducing pre-event configuration time. Designed evaluation pipelines and quantitative validation frameworks for a three-agent NLP research system, implementing CI benchmark gates to block accuracy regressions before production merge. Owned AWS/GCP deployment and monitoring infrastructure with containerized services and staged rollouts; applied MLflow/DVC model versioning. Built a bilingual English and Arabic conversational AI application on embedded hardware with latency management, error handling, and graceful fallbacks.
Research Assistant — AI/ML at Western Sydney University
August 1, 2025 - Present
Architected and deployed a production multi-agent LLM system with three specialised agents (NAV, CORE, BASE) featuring evaluation pipelines, conditional branching, and HITL checkpoints; mirrored enterprise agentic AI platform designs. Developed bilingual conversational AI on SoftBank Pepper robots for real-time live deployments and delivered bilingual AI applications including education modules.
Independent Project - MLOps-driven Sentiment Analysis Pipeline at Self-initiated project
June 1, 2024 - May 1, 2025
End-to-End MLOps Pipeline: Architected complete ML pipeline using Docker, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions for automated training, testing, and deployment of fine-tuned DistilBERT sentiment analysis model. Production Monitoring: Integrated Prometheus and Grafana for real-time system monitoring, achieving 99.9% uptime with proactive issue detection and automated alerting. Performance Optimization: Reduced model inference latency by 30% through efficient containerization, resource allocation, and optimization techniques. Cloud Deployment: Leveraged AWS services for scalable, fault-tolerant cloud deployment with automated scaling based on demand.
Full Stack Engineer at Avanza Solutions - Cipher Blockchain SaaS
October 1, 2022 - May 31, 2023
Improved API response times and throughput by 20% via targeted Node.js refactoring and endpoint redesign on an enterprise blockchain platform. Released production features with React and TypeScript, integrating smart contract APIs into the UI and deploying via GitLab CI/CD with structured change management. Participated in architecture reviews, owned rollback procedures and post-deploy monitoring, and maintained technical runbooks to speed incident resolution.
Full-Stack Engineer at Avanza Solutions (Cipher – Blockchain)
October 1, 2022 - May 1, 2023
Delivered a 20% performance uplift on Cipher enterprise SaaS platform through API design optimization, component refactoring, and horizontal scalability enhancements. Built and maintained production-grade features using React and Node.js, integrating external blockchain smart contract APIs for enterprise clients. Collaborated with cross-functional Agile teams and contributed to architecture decisions and documentation.
Full Stack Engineer at Avanza Innovations
October 1, 2022 - May 1, 2023
Microservices Architecture: Led integration of 20+ microservices for Dubai Customs' digital transformation, improving operational efficiency by 30% through optimized data pipeline design. Container Orchestration: Implemented Docker-based containerization and CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time by 75% and establishing foundation for ML model deployment workflows. System Monitoring: Designed secure API gateways with enhanced monitoring capabilities, reducing system incidents by 40% and improving data reliability—skills directly applicable to ML model serving.
Software Developer at ArhamSoft Pvt Ltd
December 1, 2021 - November 30, 2022
Led the end-to-end build of two crypto platforms on AWS covering token launches and an investor portal, contributing to over $2M in secured funding with a clean post-release security record. Wrote and deployed Solidity smart contracts for token sales and DeFi integrations, passing independent security audits with no post-release issues. Introduced coding standards across five concurrent projects and paired weekly with junior developers to raise delivery quality.
Software Developer at ArhamSoft (Pvt) Ltd
December 1, 2021 - November 1, 2022
Led end-to-end development of Crypto Launchpad and ICO platforms, securing over $2M in investor funding through token creation, whitepaper development, and investor relations deliverables. Designed Solidity smart contracts for token sales, DeFi integrations, and supply chain applications, with rigorous security reviews and compliance.
Full Stack Engineer at Arhamsoft
December 1, 2021 - October 1, 2022
Scalable System Design: Architected web applications with microservices patterns and cloud integration, improving system performance by 25% through efficient resource allocation and load balancing. Data Pipeline Development: Enhanced data processing workflows, reducing data discrepancies by 35% through automated validation and monitoring systems. Agile Leadership: Led cross-functional teams delivering 10+ projects using Scrum methodologies, demonstrating project management skills essential for MLOps team collaboration.
Software Engineer at CodeDevza AI
September 1, 2020 - November 1, 2021
Collaborated with UX teams to develop intuitive interfaces, boosting user adoption by 40%.
Software Engineer at CodeDevza Technologies - Lampro Mellon
January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2021
Built REST APIs and React frontends using JavaScript, Python, and Node.js across a client portfolio while managing stakeholder communication and sprint delivery. Owned delivery phases from scoping and requirements through development, QA, and cloud deployment, emphasizing scalable and maintainable solution design.
Software Engineer at CodeDevza Technologies / Lampró Méllon
January 1, 2020 - December 1, 2021
Designed and developed scalable web applications and REST APIs across multiple client projects using JavaScript, React, and Node.js; led architectural discussions, feature scoping, and SDLC involvement with strong documentation.

Education

Master's at University of Wollongong
July 1, 2023 - July 1, 2025
Bachelor's at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
January 1, 2017 - December 1, 2021
Master of Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning) at University of Wollongong
January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2024
Bachelor of Computer Science at FAST-NUCES (National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences)
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021
Master of Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning) at University of Wollongong
January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2024
Bachelor of Computer Science at FAST-NUCES (National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences)
January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2021
Master of Computer Science (AI and Machine Learning) at University of Wollongong
January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2024
Bachelor of Computer Science at FAST-NUCES
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021

Qualifications

Frontend Development with React — Authorised Certification
January 11, 2030 - March 31, 2026
JavaScript Foundations — Verified Credential
January 11, 2030 - March 31, 2026
Blockchain Solution Programming with Cipher — Industry Certification
January 11, 2030 - March 31, 2026
Frontend Development with React — Authorised Certification
January 11, 2030 - March 31, 2026
JavaScript Foundations — Verified Credential
January 11, 2030 - March 31, 2026
Blockchain Solution Programming with Cipher — Industry Certification
January 11, 2030 - March 31, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Education, Computers & Electronics, Government, Financial Services