Asad Nawaz
@asadnawaz
Principal AI Engineer delivering scalable Generative AI, LLMs, and Agentic AI for real business impact.
What I'm looking for
I’m a Principal AI Engineer / AI/ML Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and deploying scalable Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Generative AI solutions. I’ve led enterprise initiatives across healthcare, FinTech, e-commerce, and cybersecurity—building systems that improve decision-making and measurable business value.
In my current role, I architect and deliver enterprise-scale AI platforms, including LLMs, Multimodal AI, and Agentic AI solutions. I’ve designed fine-tuned, evaluated, and deployed production-grade AI assistants, enterprise copilots, and multi-agent systems that support 10,000+ daily users, reduce hallucinations, and improve response quality.
I build robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and knowledge systems using vector databases and knowledge graphs, enabling intelligent search across millions of documents. I also optimize Transformer-based foundation models and inference pipelines, using tools like PyTorch/TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LoRA/QLoRA, and performance-focused runtimes to cut latency and GPU costs.
I take a security-first, Responsible AI approach—implementing HIPAA/GDPR/SOC 2-aligned governance, monitoring, bias detection, encryption, and access controls. I enjoy mentoring and leading teams of 10+ engineers while shipping cloud-native, production-grade AI services through strong MLOps/LLMOps and CI/CD practices.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Principal AI Engineer
Berks Technologies
Nov 2023 - Present (2 years 8 months)
Architected and led enterprise-scale GenAI/LLM, multimodal, and agentic AI platforms automating 70% of manual workflows and improving decision-making by 60%. Designed production AI assistants and RAG/GraphRAG systems, built cloud-native AI APIs/microservices, established MLOps/LLMOps pipelines, and implemented Responsible AI and security/governance controls aligned with HIPAA/GDPR/SOC 2.
Designed and deployed supervised/unsupervised machine learning models for anomaly detection, fraud detection, and predictive analytics, improving precision by 24% while reducing false positives by 38%. Built NLP and deep learning/computer-vision pipelines, streaming/event-processing architectures with Kafka, and production MLOps/AI operations for reliable inference services supporting 1.5M+ predic
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
DigitalGenius
Sep 2017 - Jun 2020 (2 years 9 months)
Developed and fine-tuned LLMs (GPT, BERT, Llama, Mistral and Transformer-based) and built enterprise RAG pipelines using vector search, improving generation quality by 30% and reducing hallucinations by 50%. Built distributed training and automated MLOps deployment pipelines, optimized LLM inference performance, and led LLM evaluation/benchmarking with Responsible AI governance aligned to HIPAA/GD
AI Consultant
Xquic AI
Feb 2016 - Sep 2017 (1 year 7 months)
Advised enterprise clients on AI adoption and designed scalable roadmaps, delivering generative AI/LLM, RAG, and agentic AI solutions that automated 60% of workflows. Architected end-to-end AI platforms integrating models, cloud services, and APIs, deployed production applications using Docker/Kubernetes/MLflow/Terraform with CI/CD, and implemented Responsible AI governance aligned with HIPAA/GDPR
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Brunel University London
Master of Science in Information Technology, Computer Science
Earned an MSc in Information Technology (Computer Science), building a foundation in areas including data structures and algorithms, software engineering, databases, operating systems, networks, cloud computing, AI/ML, data science, and distributed systems.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Apache Spark
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
GitHub
Kubernetes
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
NumPy
Pandas
PySpark
Dask
dbt
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Gmail
Databricks
Neo4j
OpenCV
Redis
Terraform
Azure Machine Learning
TensorFlow
PyTorch
MLflow
scikit-learn
Keras
Kubeflow
DeepSpeed
NLTK
Kafka
FastAPI
Grafana
Prometheus
Gemini
GraphQL
gRPC
Elasticsearch
Milvus
Airflow
Apache Beam
Google BigQuery
CUDA
SQL
Google Kubernetes Engine
Amazon SageMaker
XGBoost
SciPy
Hugging Face
LightGBM
CatBoost
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Weaviate
ChromaDB
AutoGen
Pinecone
CrewAI
Great Expectations
ArgoCD
Evidence
Haystack
DSPy
ONNX Runtime
Scale AI
Agentic
Faiss
LangGraph
GraphRAG
Task
Beam
Sentence Transformers
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Location
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