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Iqbal Hafeez

@iqbalhafeez

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Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and scalable production systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior roles building production-grade Generative AI and MLOps platforms, prioritizing scalability, observability, and cost-efficient inference in cloud-native teams.

I am a Senior AI/ML Engineer with over eight years building and deploying enterprise-grade machine learning ecosystems, specializing in bridging research and production through robust MLOps frameworks.

I have led transitions to Generative AI systems, engineered high-throughput inference gateways using NVIDIA Triton, implemented distributed training with DeepSpeed and FSDP, and reduced infrastructure costs via quantization and model compression.

I design end-to-end ML lifecycles—covering feature stores, model monitoring, CI/CD, and cloud-native deployments—and I prioritize reproducibility, observability, and cost-efficient, high-performance serving.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior AI/ML Engineer

Current

Nimer Tech

Aug 2022 - Present (3 years 10 months)

Defined the architectural vision for end-to-end ML lifecycles using PyTorch and AWS SageMaker, led enterprise MLOps adoption with MLflow, and reduced inference latency via TensorRT and model quantization for large transformer models.

PyTorch AWS Sagemaker MLFlow TensorRT Model Quantization DeepSpeed RAG Vector Databases

Senior ML Engineer

Weights & Biases

May 2020 - Jul 2022 (2 years 2 months)

Built automated data ingestion and augmentation pipelines, implemented baseline training and hyperparameter tuning, and created internal performance dashboards to drive data-driven model improvements.

Data Pipelines Hyperparameter Tuning Flask Streamlit Docker CI CD SQL

Machine Learning Engineer

DataRobot

Feb 2018 - Apr 2020 (2 years 2 months)

Developed and productionized ensemble anomaly-detection systems and scaled Spark-based feature engineering for terabyte-scale datasets; architected BERT-based NLP microservices in Kubernetes with CI/CD.

Spark BERT Kubernetes CI CD SpaCy Anomaly Detection Automated Testing