I’m a Software Engineer with experience building backend services, frontend applications, and AI-enabled workflows in production environments. I currently work at FactSet, where I’ve worked across C#/.NET, C++, TypeScript, Vue, Angular, and modern web migrations, including moving legacy WebView-based systems onto newer technology. More recently, my work has focused on LLM and AI engineering: building RAG-style products over financial data, creating agentic workflows, improving structured outputs with function calling/JSON schemas, and setting up evaluation workflows to measure model performance and reliability. I’ve also worked on reducing AI system costs through prompt and context optimisation, while improving output quality and consistency. What makes me stand out is that I’m not just interested in using AI tools at surface level. I’ve worked on the engineering around them: evals, reliability, cost reduction, structured outputs, automation, and integration into real workflows. I’m comfortable working across the stack, but my strongest interest is in building practical AI systems that are measurable, maintainable, and genuinely useful to users.

Rashad Basharat

I’m a Software Engineer with experience building backend services, frontend applications, and AI-enabled workflows in production environments. I currently work at FactSet, where I’ve worked across C#/.NET, C++, TypeScript, Vue, Angular, and modern web migrations, including moving legacy WebView-based systems onto newer technology. More recently, my work has focused on LLM and AI engineering: building RAG-style products over financial data, creating agentic workflows, improving structured outputs with function calling/JSON schemas, and setting up evaluation workflows to measure model performance and reliability. I’ve also worked on reducing AI system costs through prompt and context optimisation, while improving output quality and consistency. What makes me stand out is that I’m not just interested in using AI tools at surface level. I’ve worked on the engineering around them: evals, reliability, cost reduction, structured outputs, automation, and integration into real workflows. I’m comfortable working across the stack, but my strongest interest is in building practical AI systems that are measurable, maintainable, and genuinely useful to users.

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I’m a Software Engineer with experience building backend services, frontend applications, and AI-enabled workflows in production environments. I currently work at FactSet, where I’ve worked across C#/.NET, C++, TypeScript, Vue, Angular, and modern web migrations, including moving legacy WebView-based systems onto newer technology.

More recently, my work has focused on LLM and AI engineering: building RAG-style products over financial data, creating agentic workflows, improving structured outputs with function calling/JSON schemas, and setting up evaluation workflows to measure model performance and reliability. I’ve also worked on reducing AI system costs through prompt and context optimisation, while improving output quality and consistency.

What makes me stand out is that I’m not just interested in using AI tools at surface level. I’ve worked on the engineering around them: evals, reliability, cost reduction, structured outputs, automation, and integration into real workflows. I’m comfortable working across the stack, but my strongest interest is in building practical AI systems that are measurable, maintainable, and genuinely useful to users.

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Software Engineer at FactSet
August 1, 2022 - May 1, 2026
Modernized legacy systems in C#/.NET and C++ by adopting updated language features, improving readability, maintainability, and runtime performance. Maintained and migrated legacy front-end codebases in Vue.js and Angular. Led migration from legacy Web View to a TypeScript + Vite stack with Edge WebView 2, cutting load times by ~50% while preserving backward compatibility. Built RAG and agentic chatbot workflows over internal financial data, enabling grounded answers and tool-calling actions. Developed MCP/tooling to expose FactSet data and product capabilities to AI agents and developer-friendly integrations. Reduced LLM costs by 60% by optimizing prompts and contexts, building evaluation workflows, and safely routing low-risk tasks to cheaper models. Implemented CI-integrated regression tests for prompts and tool outputs, evolving from ground-truth unit tests to LangChain-based evaluation workflows for fuzzy, RAG-dependent scenarios. Added structured outputs, schema validation, and t
Co-founder at Ignite NE Pre-Accelerator
February 1, 2022 - June 1, 2022
Created several prototypes including EV M and Solana smart contract security fuzzing and performed extensive market validation.
Data Science Intern at NHS Digital
September 1, 2020 - September 1, 2021
Developed automation with PyWIn 32/requests/Selenium, eliminating a significant weekly backlog. Contributed to ML projects on confidential datasets using PySpark and SQL; cleaned and shaped data and iterated regression models. Migrated workflows from SAS to Power BI & Python, reducing processing times per run by over 50%.
Tech Officer at Newcastle CS Society
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2020
Led student tech initiatives, including organizing and supporting hackathons (RocketHacks ’19, DurHack ’18/’19) and securing sponsorships; recognized for impactful project work in Kotlin/Django/MongoDB.

Education

BSc Computer Science with Industrial Placement at Newcastle University
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2022

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Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services

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