Work history · 2023 – now

Work

Engineering roles at AI startups in the US, UK and Europe, most of them as the first or lead engineer, and the company I'm building in Pakistan.

Aug 2025 – Present

Bridge

  1. Founding Senior Engineer · from Oct 2026
  2. Founding Engineer · from Aug 2025

Part-time · Remote · US

meetonbridge.com ↗

First engineer at Bridge, the workspace where teams and AI agents meet. Now leading engineering across product and growth.

  • Shipped the MVP in 2 months and grew Bridge to ~500 users.
  • Built LangChain agentic workflows that run the full meeting lifecycle, from transcription to summaries and follow-ups.
  • Integrated MCP servers so agents can take actions in ClickUp, Slack, Google Drive and Notion.
  • Built speech-to-text pipelines on AssemblyAI and Deepgram.
  • Optimized database queries, cutting query latency from 60s to under 2s (30x faster).
  • Lead architecture across the agentic AI pipeline, backend services and third-party integrations, and set the engineering standards for reliability, performance and code quality.
  • Built a content engine that researches, writes and publishes SEO-optimized articles end to end.
  • Built programmatic SEO, AEO and GEO pipelines, plus structured data, llms.txt and AI-crawler optimization, so Bridge ranks on Google and gets cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
  • Node.js
  • Next.js
  • LangChain
  • MCP
  • AssemblyAI
  • Deepgram
  • PostgreSQL
  • DigitalOcean
  • GitHub Actions

Jan 2026 – Present

DreamDesk AI

Lead AI Product Engineer

Second Nature · Full-time · Remote · UK

staysecondnature.com ↗

Hospitality AI from Second Nature hometels (formerly room2), the UK hometel group behind DreamDesk. Our guest-service agents are live across its hometels in London, Belfast and Southampton.

  • Led a team of 2 engineers and shipped the POC in 4 weeks.
  • Designed the end-to-end product architecture and UX, working directly with the product owner on scope and R&D.
  • Built agents across voice, WhatsApp, email and web chat, now running at 3 Second Nature hometels.
  • Voice agent responds in about 1.7s end to end, including RAG retrieval and MCP tool calls.
  • Integrated Mews and Guestline PMS for real-time reservation data.
  • Built the RAG pipeline that ingests each hotel’s knowledge base.
  • FastAPI
  • Next.js
  • Pydantic AI
  • Voice AI
  • MCP
  • Pinecone
  • PostgreSQL
  • GCP
  • Cloud Run

Sep 2026 – Present

Zehn

Founder

Founder · Pakistan

zehn.school ↗

My side project, run alongside my engineering work. Zehn prepares schools and colleges in Pakistan for an AI-powered future.

  • Zehn School: a three-year computing, AI and entrepreneurship programme for Grades 5–7, taught by the school’s own teachers with our curriculum and training.
  • Zehn College: eight Saturday sessions on campus for FSc, ICS and FA students, covering tech careers, AI tools and a personal 90-day plan.
  • Zehn Online: live coding and AI classes for ages 8–18, where parents learn too.
  • Curriculum
  • Sales
  • Hiring
  • Operations

Nov 2025 – Dec 2025

Reconsider AI

Full-Stack AI Engineer

Contract · Remote · Estonia

reconsider.ai ↗

Chrome extension that flags deepfake and AI-generated images on e-commerce sites.

  • Built a Chrome extension to detect deepfake and AI-generated images on e-commerce sites.
  • Integrated image classification models into a real-time, browser-side pipeline.
  • Designed the UX around model latency so users stay engaged while images are checked.
  • FastAPI
  • Python
  • Next.js
  • JavaScript
  • C2PA

Apr 2025 – Nov 2025

AI Governance Sandbox

Founding Full-Stack AI Engineer

Full-time · Remote · US

aigovsandbox.com ↗

Multi-agent compliance evaluation against the EU AI Act, US regulations and global frameworks.

  • Founding engineer on an automated AI compliance evaluation platform.
  • Built a multi-agent system covering the EU AI Act, US regulations and global compliance frameworks.
  • Fixed retrieval accuracy with an agentic retrieval system that refines its context iteratively.
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • LangGraph
  • Docker
  • MongoDB
  • AWS

Dec 2024 – Apr 2025

Foomotion

Full-Stack AI Engineer

Full-time · Lahore · On-site

foomotion.io ↗

Owned AI development for Pearson Labs, a YC-funded platform automating legal workflows.

  • Worked with Pearson Labs, a YC-funded AI platform automating workflows for law firms.
  • Led client syncs and owned AI development end to end.
  • Built RAG and multi-agent systems on AWS Bedrock, LangGraph, LangChain and LlamaIndex.
  • Developed LiveKit voice agents and n8n automation workflows.
  • FastAPI
  • Next.js
  • LangGraph
  • LlamaIndex
  • LiveKit
  • n8n
  • AWS Bedrock

Jun 2024 – Dec 2024

Cyber Evangelists

AI Engineer

Full-time · Lahore · On-site

Real-time RAG voice agent with voice cloning, and an attack-surface-management MVP.

  • Built a real-time RAG voice agent with TTS, STT and voice cloning.
  • Built an Attack Surface Management MVP on FastAPI and gRPC microservices.
  • Containerized each service independently with Docker.
  • FastAPI
  • Node.js
  • gRPC
  • Docker
  • LangChain
  • Redis

Jun 2023 – Feb 2025

Freelance

Full-Stack AI Engineer

Contract · Remote

Part-time contract work alongside university and early roles: MVPs for AI products, voice agents and an ERP system.

  • Built MVPs for AI-powered products and an ERP system, spanning RAG, voice AI agents and multi-agent systems.
  • Built a real-time voice calling agent for reves.ai on Node.js and WebSockets with STT, TTS, voice cloning and intent/emotion detection; cut response latency and cost by 20%, deployed with Nginx on a VPS.
  • FastAPI
  • Node.js
  • Next.js
  • React
  • LangGraph
  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex
  • VAPI
  • LiveKit
  • Deepgram
  • Twilio

Jun 2023 – Aug 2023

DevDen

Software Engineering Intern

Internship · Faisalabad · Pakistan

Internship building a React admin dashboard for a point-of-sale system.

  • Built an admin dashboard for a POS system with React, featuring user management and sales analytics.
  • React
  • JavaScript