AI Architect · Dubai, UAE

Zubair Shahzad

Agentic AI · RAG · MCP integrations · Computer vision · Data platforms · Web & mobile applications — on Microsoft Azure

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About

I am an AI architect and senior AI expert with more than ten years in software engineering, the last seven of them designing and running production machine-learning, computer-vision, data-platform and generative-AI systems for large organisations in the UAE — airports, telecommunication, business data & analytics, a holding group and, currently, an industrial equipment company. My present focus is agentic AI in the enterprise: multi-agent systems with human-in-the-loop control, retrieval-augmented generation, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations and Copilot adoption on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry. Around the AI I build the full software stack: web applications, REST / gRPC APIs and microservices (Python, .NET, Node.js, React, Angular) and native and cross-platform mobile apps (Android, iOS, Flutter) — several of them live on the App Store and Google Play.

Zubair Shahzad

AI Architect & Senior AI Expert

I cover the whole chain: business problem → target architecture (TOGAF-aligned) → data pipelines and models → application code → deployment with Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD → measured result in hours saved, accuracy achieved or cost reduced.

  • Role: AI Lead / AI Architect
  • Focus: Agentic AI & MCP · RAG · computer vision · web & mobile platforms
  • Consultancy: Founder, CodePilot AI (Abu Dhabi)
  • Location: Dubai, UAE
  • Degrees: MSc Cyber Security (UWL) · MSc Artificial Intelligence (UWL) · BS Software Engineering (Sukkur IBA)
  • Certifications: Microsoft Azure AI Apps & Agents Developer (AI-103) · Azure Data Engineer (DP-203) · TOGAF
  • Email: zubairshahzadarain@gmail.com

What I do

What I am hired for — each delivered end to end, from architecture to production.

Agentic AI & multi-agent systems

Orchestrator and specialist agents (A2A) with human-in-the-loop approval, fallback automation, tool orchestration and structured outputs — Microsoft Agent Framework, Azure AI Foundry, LangGraph and LangChain.

MCP integrations & enterprise Copilots

OAuth-secured MCP servers (FastMCP) for Microsoft 365 / Graph, CRM and data-warehouse platforms; custom Teams apps and agents with SSO / on-behalf-of; organisation-wide Copilot adoption.

RAG & knowledge assistants

Retrieval-augmented assistants with contextual chunking, hybrid dense + sparse search, re-ranking, grounded answers with citations and Ragas evaluation.

Voice & conversational AI

Real-time voice agents (Azure AI Foundry Voice Live), AI call centres on Teams Phone and Azure Communication Services, WhatsApp chatbots and speech-to-text pipelines.

Computer vision & document intelligence

YOLO object detection on CCTV and X-ray feeds, OCR and document extraction (PaddleOCR, Google Vision), image-processing quality audits — in production.

Data platforms & MLOps

Lakehouse architectures, streaming and orchestration (Airflow, NiFi, Kafka), ML services on Kubernetes, model serving with vLLM, monitoring and CI/CD.

Web applications & APIs

Portals, dashboards and back-office systems with Python (Flask, FastAPI), ASP.NET MVC, Node.js, React and Angular; REST / gRPC services and microservices on RabbitMQ and Firebase Cloud Functions.

Mobile applications

Native Android (Java) and iOS (Swift) and cross-platform Flutter apps with Firebase and Node.js backends — published on the App Store and Google Play, plus Smart-TV / IPTV and custom Android builds.

Architecture, security & leadership

TOGAF-aligned target architectures, identity (SSO / OAuth / on-behalf-of), ERP / CRM / M365 integration, secure cloud deployment — leading engineers and vendors to measured outcomes.

In numbers

Results reported on the projects below.

+ years in software engineering, 7 in ML & AI

+ interactions a day on a voice RAG assistant

+ hours a month saved by a multi-agent system

+ enterprise systems behind one MCP layer

Experience & education

Most recent first. Organisations are described by industry.

Professional experience

AI Lead / AI Architect

Aug 2026 – present

Industrial Equipment Company, UAE

  • Architecting and building an enterprise AI assistant inside Microsoft Teams — typed chat, voice-to-text and real-time voice on Azure AI Foundry agents.
  • Secure per-user access with Teams SSO, on-behalf-of token exchange and OAuth identity pass-through, so every agent action runs with the employee's own permissions.
  • Custom MCP server for Microsoft 365 (Graph) plus MCP connections to CRM and data-warehouse platforms; data agents with row-level security.
  • AI call centre: inbound calls routed PBX → SIP → Teams Phone → Azure Communication Services → voice agent, with lead logging and hand-over to a person.
  • Enterprise features: chat history, per-user and per-department usage and cost tracking, guardrails, audit logging; deployed on Azure Container Apps with staged releases.

Founder & AI Consultant

Jun 2026 – present

CodePilot AI Information Technology Consultancy, Abu Dhabi

  • Licensed AI consultancy delivering AI agents, automation workflows, API integrations, system architecture and mobile / web platforms for clients in the UAE.

Technical Lead — AI & Solution Architect

May 2025 – Jun 2026

Airports, UAE

  • Led the design and build of a multi-agent AI platform (orchestrator + specialist agents, human-in-the-loop, fallback automation) automating more than 60% of routine HR, legal, procurement and ticket processing — 200+ hours saved per month.
  • Built a real-time voice assistant with hybrid retrieval-augmented generation (dense + sparse search, re-ranking, grounded answers, content safety) — 1,000+ interactions a day, 40% faster query resolution.
  • Created an OAuth-secured MCP integration layer giving agents governed access to 10+ enterprise systems; Teams apps with SSO / on-behalf-of; organisation-wide Copilot adoption.
  • Enterprise Copilot extended with autonomous agents for procurement, business operations, HR and compliance; a TCC agent that summarises meeting minutes and tracks follow-up actions; an AI agent for Cisco Unified Communications; reusable prompt templates, few-shot examples and structured JSON outputs; open-source models served with vLLM.

Software Architect & AI Automation Lead

Aug 2024 – Mar 2025

Airports, UAE

  • Computer vision for security operations: YOLO abandoned-object detection on CCTV (about 92% accuracy, 25% faster response) and a baggage X-ray screening assistant; speech-to-text extraction of radar timestamps (about 70% less effort).
  • Taxi-demand forecasting (XGBoost) with an agent that turns forecasts into dispatch actions — about 30% better fleet allocation at peak hours.
  • TOGAF-aligned data platform ingesting radar, queue-management, IoT, network and baggage-handling data into a governed lakehouse (Airflow, NiFi, Kafka, Power BI).
  • Network automation and AIOps: CMDB discovery, port-based billing, VLAN / IPAM maintenance, config push with roll-back, LangGraph agent for MAC / IP tracing — about 90% less manual reporting.

Solution Architect — Document Intelligence & RPA

Nov 2022 – Aug 2024

Holding Group, Abu Dhabi

  • ML / OCR extraction of invoices and bank statements with data standardisation and integration into the ERP — about 80% less manual extraction effort.
  • PDF digital-signature workflow platform for inter-departmental approvals with audit trail; RPA automation of recurring back-office processes.

Senior Data / Solution Engineer

Nov 2021 – Nov 2022

Business Data & Analytics Company, UAE

  • Machine-learning services for business-entity data: multilingual address parsing to the UPU standard (91% accuracy), text classification (88%+), OCR from PDFs and images.
  • Scraping microservices (Python, RabbitMQ) at 50,000+ records a day with 99.5% uptime; Airflow and Kubernetes pipelines serving 200+ analysts; Azure automation cutting cloud cost by about 30%.
  • Web platforms: a portal to manage and automate Azure resources (ASP.NET) and an on-demand reporting system (EDOD) on Power BI serving 200+ business users; Kubernetes infrastructure cutting provisioning from days to under two hours.

AI & ML Solutions Engineer (full-stack)

May 2019 – Nov 2021

Telecommunication, UAE

  • WhatsApp appointment chatbot (Flask, TensorFlow, Twilio) handling 500+ bookings a month at about 85% automation.
  • Image-processing quality audits (TensorFlow) and a Flutter field-audit app — about 35% shorter audit cycle; RPA ticket automation reducing mean time to repair by about 20%.
  • Web and mobile business applications: gamification, incentive and scouting apps (ASP.NET web services + Android) integrated with field-service and business-support systems; resource-management and project-reporting systems (ASP.NET MVC, Angular); SSRS reporting and ETL jobs.

Software Engineer

Mar 2018 – May 2019

IT Company, Dubai

  • Published a construction-reporting app on the App Store and Google Play (Swift, Java) with a Node.js / MongoDB / Firebase backend.
  • IPTV Smart-TV application and an FTPS / AWS S3 firmware-update pipeline.

Software Developer

2017 – 2018

IT Company, UAE

  • Document-management and reporting utilities for a government education authority; health-insurance portal; optical-lab ERP; SharePoint digitisation tools (.NET, C#).

Software Developer (remote / freelance)

2014 – 2016

Singapore · Belize · Pakistan

  • Web development for clients in Singapore, Belize, Germany and the Netherlands (PHP, responsive sites, e-commerce); Android POS and catalogue apps and a Flutter VPN app published on Google Play; usability and penetration testing with responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities to major platforms.

Education

MSc Cyber Security

University of West London — awarded with Merit

Thesis: big-data system to protect corporate networks using User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (CERT R4.2 dataset; supervised and unsupervised anomaly detection).

MSc Artificial Intelligence

University of West London

Modules passed: Big Data Analytics, Deep Learning, Research Methods; current: Artificial Intelligence, Responsible AI, Machine Learning; dissertation to follow.

BS Software Engineering

Sukkur IBA University, Pakistan — HEC merit scholarship; 2nd place, SIBA COM (IEEE)

Certifications & training

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate (AI-103)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP-203)
  • TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architecture Practitioner — The Open Group
  • IBM: Data Science Methodologies; Python for Data Science
  • Software Product Management (University of Alberta); Swift and iOS development (University of Toronto); Responsive web design (University of London)
  • Penetration testing and ethical hacking (Cybrary, Udemy); Python for security professionals

Projects

33 projects, most recent first — AI and agents, data platforms, web and mobile. Each entry gives the problem, my role, the stack and the measured result; organisations are described by industry and client data is not published.

  • All
  • AI & agents
  • Data & automation
  • Web
  • Mobile
01

Enterprise AI assistant in Microsoft Teams with voice and MCP integrations

Industrial Equipment Company, UAE · 2026 – present

One secure assistant for every employee inside Teams (desktop and mobile) — typed chat, voice-to-text and real-time voice on Azure AI Foundry agents and the Voice Live API. Every action runs under the employee's own permissions (Teams SSO with Entra ID, on-behalf-of token exchange). Chat history, per-user and per-department usage and cost tracking, guardrails, audit logging and a modular sidebar for meetings, tasks and data agents. Deployed on Azure Container Apps with Docker, Key Vault secrets and staged releases behind feature switches.

Azure AI FoundryVoice LiveMCPEntra IDTeams SSO / OBOTypeScriptReactPostgreSQLContainer Apps
02

AI call centre: a voice agent that answers, qualifies calls and creates CRM leads

Industrial Equipment Company, UAE · 2026

Inbound customer calls to a UAE landline travel PBX → SIP trunk and session border controller → Teams Phone → Azure Communication Services → an Azure AI Foundry voice agent that answers, captures the enquiry, creates the lead in the CRM through MCP and hands the call to a person when needed — with recording, audit trail and guardrails.

Azure AI FoundryVoice LiveAzure Communication ServicesTeams PhoneSIP / SBCMCPSalesforce
03

Microsoft 365 MCP server and Fabric data agents

Industrial Equipment Company, UAE · 2026

A custom Model Context Protocol server that exposes Microsoft 365 — mail, calendar, Teams, To Do and Planner — through Microsoft Graph, so agents read and act on the employee's own data with the employee's own permissions. Microsoft Fabric data agents answer sales-analytics questions with row-level security, surfaced inside the Teams assistant.

MCPMicrosoft GraphMicrosoft FabricEntra ID (OBO)Azure AI FoundryTypeScript
04

CRM and data-warehouse MCP integrations with OAuth identity pass-through

Industrial Equipment Company, UAE · 2026

Agent access to the CRM and the cloud data warehouse through their hosted MCP servers — analyst, SQL and search tools — using OAuth identity pass-through, so every query runs under the user's own role and row-level permissions. No shared service accounts, full audit trail, consistent answers across chat and voice.

MCPSalesforceSnowflakeCortex AnalystOAuth 2.0Azure AI Foundry
05

Multi-agent AI platform for HR, legal, procurement and IT tickets

Airports, UAE · 2025 – 2026

Orchestrator and specialist agents talking agent-to-agent, with human-in-the-loop approval and fallback automation across 10+ enterprise systems. More than 60% of routine document-processing tasks automated; over 200 hours saved per month.

Microsoft Agent FrameworkAzure AI FoundryA2AMCPcontent safetyLangfuse
06

Real-time voice assistant with retrieval-augmented generation

Airports, UAE · 2025 – 2026

Document ingestion with contextual chunking, hybrid dense + sparse retrieval with re-ranking, grounded answers with citations, real-time voice interface and content-safety layer. 1,000+ interactions a day; 40% faster query resolution.

LlamaIndexBGE-M3FAISSAzure AI SearchRagasDocker
07

OAuth-secured MCP integration layer and Teams AI agents

Airports, UAE · 2025 – 2026

MCP server (FastMCP) and tool library giving agents governed access to 10+ enterprise systems and vector databases; custom Teams tab applications and agents with SSO / on-behalf-of and progressive tool execution; open-source LLM serving with vLLM on Azure Functions and Container Apps.

FastMCPMicrosoft GraphAzure FunctionsContainer AppsvLLM
08

Enterprise Copilot extended with autonomous agents

Airports, UAE · 2025 – 2026

Organisation-wide Copilot adoption, then an Enterprise Copilot extended with autonomous agents for procurement, business operations, HR and compliance. Reusable prompt templates, few-shot examples, context-management strategies and structured JSON outputs so that downstream systems can trust the agents' results.

Microsoft CopilotAzure AI FoundryMicrosoft Agent FrameworkA2AMCP
09

TCC agent for meeting minutes, actions and project tracking

Airports, UAE · 2025 – 2026

An agent that summarises minutes of meetings, extracts decisions and follow-up actions, reminds owners and tracks project progress from one meeting to the next — grounded in the organisation's documents and calendar through MCP tools, with a person confirming before anything is sent.

Azure AI FoundryMicrosoft Agent FrameworkMCPMicrosoft Graphstructured outputs
10

AI agent for Cisco Unified Communications

Airports, UAE · 2025 – 2026

Agent integrated with the Cisco Unified Communications platform that delivers messages and places calls automatically from workflow triggers — tool calling with guardrails, retries and an audit log, so operations teams reach the right people without manual dialling.

Cisco UCPythonMCPAzure AI Foundry
11

Computer vision and speech AI for airport security

Airports, UAE · 2024 – 2026

YOLO abandoned-object detection on CCTV in public and restricted zones (about 92% accuracy, 25% faster security response), an AI baggage X-ray screening assistant, and speech-to-text extraction of ATC radar timestamps (about 70% less extraction time).

YOLOPyTorchOpenCVspeech-to-text
12

Predictive taxi-demand model with agentic dispatch

Airports, UAE · 2024 – 2025

Demand forecasting on real-time taxi and flight feeds (XGBoost) with a LangChain agent that turns forecasts into dispatch actions — about 30% better fleet allocation at peak hours.

XGBoostLangChainKafkaAzure Data Lake
13

Network automation and AIOps platform with LangGraph agents

Airports, UAE · 2024 – 2025

Multi-vendor CMDB discovery, port-based customer billing reports, VLAN / IPAM maintenance, configuration-template push with roll-back, auto-triggered preventive-maintenance scans — about 90% less manual reporting. A LangGraph agent traces users by MAC / IP and an A2A agent analyses historical network data.

PythonAnsibleNetmikoNETCONFAirflowLangGraphA2A
14

Airport data platform and system integrations

Airports, UAE · 2024 – 2026

TOGAF-aligned lakehouse ingesting radar, queue-management, IoT, network, taxi and baggage-handling data into bronze / silver / gold layers with Airflow and NiFi orchestration, Kafka streaming and Power BI consumption.

Azure Data LakeAirflowNiFiKafkaPower BIPurview
15

Financial document intelligence and e-signature automation

Holding Group, Abu Dhabi · 2022 – 2024

ML / OCR extraction of invoices and bank statements with standardisation into the ERP (about 80% less manual extraction effort), and a PDF digital-signature workflow platform for inter-departmental approvals with a full audit trail.

OCRPaddleOCRPythonASP.NETOracle ERPUiPath
16

Machine-learning services for global business data

Business Data & Analytics Company, UAE · 2021 – 2022

Address parsing to the UPU international standard (91% accuracy across multilingual datasets), business-entity text classification (88%+ with NLTK / FastText), gender prediction from names, and text recognition from PDFs and images (PaddleOCR, Google Vision).

PythonFastTextNLTKPaddleOCRGoogle VisionSpark
17

Data platform, scraping microservices and Kubernetes automation

Business Data & Analytics Company, UAE · 2021 – 2022

Airflow + Kubernetes pipelines (about 45% lower processing latency) serving 200+ analysts; web-scraping microservices (Python, Nameko, Flask, RabbitMQ) at 50,000+ records a day with 99.5% uptime; star / snowflake data modelling and ISO standardisation with Spark and Pandas; Kubernetes architecture cutting provisioning from days to under two hours; Azure VM automation cutting cloud cost by about 30%.

AirflowKubernetesNamekoRabbitMQSparkAzureTagUI
18

Azure resource-management portal

Business Data & Analytics Company, UAE · 2021 – 2022

Web portal that lets teams create, manage and automate Azure resources and virtual machines through governed self-service, backed by Python provisioning scripts for VMware and VirtualBox environments and Linux / Windows system services.

ASP.NETC#AzurePython
19

EDOD — on-demand enterprise reporting system

Business Data & Analytics Company, UAE · 2021 – 2022

Self-service reporting system that generates reports from the data warehouse on request — Power BI embedded in an ASP.NET application — serving 200+ business users, with SSRS reports and ETL jobs behind it.

Power BIASP.NETSQL ServerData warehouseSSRS
20

WhatsApp appointment-booking chatbot

Telecommunication, UAE · 2019 – 2021

Conversational service that books customer appointments over WhatsApp — intent detection with TensorFlow, Flask web service, Twilio messaging and integration with the booking back end — handling 500+ bookings a month at about 85% automation.

FlaskTensorFlowTwilioPythonNLP
21

Flutter field-audit app with on-device image processing

Telecommunication, UAE · 2019 – 2021

Hybrid mobile app for fibre-distribution-hub audits: guided photo capture, on-device image analysis, offline forms and sync — about 35% shorter audit cycle. Companion workflows analyse fibre-hub quality with TensorFlow and Orange, plus text recognition with Google Vision.

FlutterDartTensorFlowGoogle VisionFirebase
22

Gamification, incentive and scouting apps for field teams

Telecommunication, UAE · 2019 – 2021

Three Android applications with ASP.NET web-service back ends — a gamification app for field staff, an incentive-tracking app and a scouting app — integrated with the field-service-management and business-support systems.

Android (Java)ASP.NET Web APIC#SQL ServerFSM / BSM integration
23

Resource-management and project-reporting systems

Telecommunication, UAE · 2019 – 2021

A Resource Management System and a Project Management and daily-reporting system for field operations (ASP.NET MVC, Angular, SQL Server), with SSRS reporting and ETL jobs feeding management dashboards and system integrations through ASP.NET / C# web services.

ASP.NET MVCAngularC#SQL ServerSSRS
24

RPA for network incident tickets

Telecommunication, UAE · 2019 – 2021

UiPath / C# robots that create maintenance tickets automatically when an OLT or fibre-hub splitter goes down — about 20% lower mean time to repair.

UiPathC#RPA
25

GoProjects Reporting — construction reporting app for iOS and Android

IT Company, Dubai · 2018 – 2019

Native iOS (Swift) and Android (Java) apps published on the App Store and Google Play, with a Node.js / MongoDB / Firebase Cloud Functions back end for projects, daily reports and photos.

SwiftJavaNode.jsMongoDBFirebase
26

Smart-TV IPTV application and firmware-update pipeline

IT Company, Dubai · 2018 – 2019

Android Smart-TV (IPTV) application for custom devices with a Node.js service, and an FTPS server integrated with AWS S3 for over-the-air firmware updates.

Android TVJavaNode.jsFTPSAWS S3
27

Document management, reporting and digitisation tools for government bodies

IT Company, UAE · 2016 – 2018

Utilities for a government education authority's 360° document-management system — Oracle data filtration, reports over structured and unstructured data, Windows services (.NET, C#) — and SharePoint upload tools for a government council's digitisation project.

.NETC#OracleSharePointWindows services
28

Health-insurance portal and optical-lab ERP

IT Company, UAE · 2016 – 2018

Feature development on a health authority's insurance portal, and an ERP for an optical laboratory and its retail stores (C#, Windows Forms).

ASP.NETC#SQL ServerWinForms
29

Gamer VPN — Flutter VPN app with a self-hosted OpenVPN service

Independent product · Google Play

Cross-platform VPN client built in Flutter with its own OpenVPN server set-up, server selection and connection management; published on Google Play.

FlutterDartOpenVPNAndroidFirebase
30

Android POS and product-catalogue apps

Remote / freelance · 2015 – 2016

A point-of-sale system for Android with sales, receipts and inventory, and a product-catalogue app for a retailer — delivered remotely for clients in Singapore and Pakistan.

Android (Java)SQLiteREST
31

Websites for international clients

Remote / freelance · 2014 – 2016

Business websites and e-commerce builds for clients in Singapore, Belize, Germany and the Netherlands — a domestic-staffing agency site, tourism sites, a responsive jewellery site, a film-production site and an e-commerce clone (PHP / CodeIgniter, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript) — plus database design and fixes for a sports-board portal.

PHPCodeIgniterMySQLHTML5 / CSSJavaScriptjQuery
32

Web security and usability testing

Freelance · 2014 – 2015

Penetration testing with responsible disclosure — a cross-site-scripting bug reported to a major classifieds platform and a credential-encryption weakness reported to a global software vendor, among others — plus a usability-testing study of an e-commerce site. Later OWASP chapter leadership.

OWASPKali LinuxNmapJMeterXSS
33

Student attendance by face recognition — final-year project

University · 2016

Classroom attendance system that detects and recognises students from camera images (EMGU CV / OpenCV for .NET); also an Iron Dome missile-defence simulation in Unity3D and JavaFX / Android coursework applications.

EMGU CVOpenCVC#Unity3D

Skills

Areas of expertise — the full technical stack I design and build with.

  • Agentic AI & MCPMulti-agent systems and orchestration (Microsoft Agent Framework, Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, LangGraph, LangChain agents), agent-to-agent (A2A) protocol, human-in-the-loop and fallback automation, tool orchestration and progressive tool execution, MCP servers and tools (FastMCP, OAuth / on-behalf-of identity pass-through, Salesforce Hosted MCP, Snowflake-managed MCP), Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot extensibility, Fabric data agents, prompt templates, few-shot examples, context management and structured JSON outputs, Langfuse tracing, guardrails and content safety
  • Generative AILLMs (GPT, LLaMA, Mistral, Claude), NLP, Intent Detection, Classification Models, RAG Pipelines, Prompt Engineering, Model Fine-Tuning, Model Optimization, AI Agents, Autonomous Systems, MCP tools integration and BGE-M3 embeddings, AI content safety, NeMo Guardrails
  • AI Frameworks & ToolsLangChain, LangGraph, Microsoft Agent Framework, FastAPI, Flask, vLLM, Ollama, HuggingFace Transformers, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Kubeflow, Copilot, AI Foundry, FastMCP, Langfuse, Orange, NLTK, FastText
  • Voice & conversational AIAzure AI Foundry Voice Live API, real-time voice agents, Azure Communication Services, Teams Phone / SIP trunk / SBC call flows, WhatsApp chatbots (Twilio), intent detection, speech-to-text pipelines, Cisco Unified Communications agents
  • RAG ArchitectureNaive RAG, Advanced RAG, Agentic RAG, Hybrid Search (Dense + Sparse), Re-Ranking, Multi-Source / Federated Search, Contextual Chunking, Semantic Caching, Multi-Hop Retrieval, Document Ingestion Pipelines,pgvector
  • RAG FrameworksLlamaIndex, Ragas, LangChain RAG Chains, (retrieval pipelines)
  • ML, DL and LLMRandom Forest, Decision Trees, Naive Bayes, AdaBoost, XGBoost, Linear Regression, CNN, RNN and YOLO
  • Big Data and ETLSSRS, Power BI, Spark, ETL job, SSIS, Pentaho, Azure Synapse, Data Lake, Data warehouse, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Apache Airflow, Python (Pandas, NumPy)
  • Real-Time ApplicationsApache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Multicast, WebSockets, Message Queues, Real-Time Data Pipelines, NiFi
  • DatabasesFAISS, MongoDB, MySQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL, Oracle, Firebase, Cassandra, vector databases (Qdrant)
  • Data & governanceMicrosoft Purview, RBAC roles
  • System DesigningObject Oriented Design Analysis, Patterns, UML Modeling, Formal method, System architecture
  • Requirement EngineeringRequirement collection, SRS and Scope documentation
  • Web Applications & APIsPython (Flask, FastAPI), C# ASP.NET MVC and web services, Node.js (Express), PHP (CodeIgniter), Firebase Cloud Functions, REST and gRPC services, WebSockets, microservices (Nameko, RabbitMQ), HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, TypeScript, jQuery, React.js, Angular, Microsoft Teams tab apps, Microsoft Graph API, Power BI embedding
  • Mobile DevelopmentAndroid (Java), iOS (Swift), Flutter (Dart), apps published on the App Store and Google Play, Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Cloud Functions, Cloud Messaging), Node.js / MongoDB backends for mobile, on-device image processing and OCR, third-party API integration (payments, maps, messaging), Android Smart-TV / IPTV apps, custom Android OS compilation, OpenVPN client apps
  • Cloud servicesMicrosoft Azure (AI Foundry, Container Apps, Functions, Key Vault, AI Search, Data Lake, Synapse, Data Factory, Communication Services, Entra ID), AWS (S3, EC2), Microsoft Fabric
  • MLOps & DevOpsDocker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, MLflow, feature flags and staged releases, Linux and Windows services, VM automation (VMware, VirtualBox), Azure resource automation
  • Software TestingWebsite Penetration Testing, Usability Testing, Performance Testing using JMeter
  • IoT & network automationCisco, Juniper, Moxa — Python, Ansible, Netmiko, encryption of credential in memory. understanding of network protocols. NETCONF, RESTCONF, data collection from sensor and other devices
  • Business & process automationUiPath, TagUI, RPA workflows, PDF e-signature workflows, ERP integration (Oracle), SharePoint tooling
  • Other Programming languagesJava, C#, Node.js, C++, Arduino, Python, Dart
  • Language LibrariesJSON, Jsoup
  • Frameworks and TechnologiesRMI, CORBA, Hibernate, Facebook API, PayPal API, Stripe API, image processing, Job scheduling or cron jobs, OpenVPN
  • Development ToolsGit, Bitbucket, NetBeans IDE, SQL YOG, PHP My Admin, Notepad++, Sublime, Wamp, Xampp, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Android Studio, Xcode, Unity3D, Star UML, Packet Tracer, Nmap, Jira, MS Visual Studio
  • PlatformWindows, Kali Linux, Mac OS

Open source & writing

Public code and articles. Employer and client code stays private.

GitHub — github.com/zubairshahzadarain

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Contact

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Let's build something with AI

Agentic systems, retrieval-augmented assistants, computer vision, data platforms and the architecture that holds them together — from first design to production.

Based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates · open to consulting and architecture engagements