# Jawad Parvez

Jawad Parvez is a remote worker on Himalayas, AI Application Engineer at Independent Contractor, based in United States.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@jawadparvez1

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AI Application Engineer building RAG assistants, AI agents, and vector search systems as an independent contractor.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United States |
| Authorized to work in | United States |
| Salary expectations | 150k+ USD |
| Job categories | AI Application Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Web Developer, PHP (Laravel), Laravel Developer, UI UX Developer |
| Skills | LLM Applications, RAG, AI Agents, Vector Search, Prompt Engineering, LLM Evaluation, Tool calling, Function Calling, Structured Outputs, Retrieval Pipelines, Embeddings, Semantic Search, Document Chunking, Context Window Optimization, Python |
| Website | https://jawadparvez.net |
| Portfolio | https://github.com/jawadparvez37-boop/llm-knowledge-assistant |
| GitHub | https://github.com/jawadparvez37-boop |

## About

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As an independent contractor, I design and build LLM applications, including RAG pipelines, AI agents, and vector search systems. I developed a knowledge assistant using document chunking, pgvector, PostgreSQL, and OpenAI embeddings for grounded Q&A.

I also built multi-step agent workflows with tool and function calling, plus Redis-backed task queues for process automation. My conversational support APIs deliver structured JSON outputs through OpenAI and Claude integrations.

At Admediary, I developed web applications and backend services with React, Node.js, Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL. I also implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Docker for AWS deployments.

Earlier, I developed PHP and WordPress solutions at Bisk and Laravel applications at Data Device Corporation and Geisinger - NIH Project. My work included REST API integrations, healthcare-related workflows, background processing, and monitoring.
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## Experience

### AI Application Engineer (current)

Independent Contractor. Jun 2025 - Present

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Design and build LLM applications including RAG pipelines, AI agents, and vector search systems using Python, FastAPI, LangChain, and LangGraph. Developed a RAG knowledge assistant and multi-step AI agent workflows with tool calling and Redis-backed task queues.
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Skills: Python, fastAPI, Lang-Chain, LangGraph, OpenAI, Claude, RAG, Vector-Search, Pgvector, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, AWS, CI-CD, LLM-Evaluation, Langsmith

### Full Stack Developer

Admediary. Jan 2022 - May 2025

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Developed scalable web applications and backend services using React, Node.js, JavaScript, Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL. Designed RESTful APIs and microservices with JWT-secured endpoints and implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Docker.
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Skills: React, NodeJS, JavaScript, Python, fastAPI, PostgreSQL, REST-APIs, Microservices, JWT, GitHub-Actions, Docker, Docker-Compose, AWS, Redis, SQL, Pydantic

### Web Developer

Bisk. Jan 2020 - Nov 2021

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Developed custom PHP and WordPress solutions integrated with third-party REST APIs. Designed backend services and data-processing workflows for content and business operations.
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Skills: PHP, WordPress, REST-APIs, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Responsive-Design

### PHP Laravel Developer

Data Device Corporation. Jan 2019 - Nov 2019

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Developed enterprise Laravel applications with PostgreSQL, REST APIs, JWT authentication, and OAuth integrations. Built backend services and role-based access control for internal business systems.
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Skills: Laravel, PHP, PostgreSQL, REST-APIs, JWT, OAuth, RBAC, Unit-Testing, CI-CD

### Laravel Developer

Geisinger - NIH Project. Oct 2017 - Dec 2018

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Built and maintained large-scale Laravel applications for healthcare-related workflows. Designed background processing systems using Redis and Laravel Queues and implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Laravel Forge.
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Skills: Laravel, PHP, Redis, Laravel-Queues, GitHub-Actions, Laravel-Forge, Sentry, Laravel-Telescope, CI-CD

### UI/UX Developer

Pound and Grain. Sep 2015 - Aug 2017

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Designed responsive user interfaces and interactive prototypes for marketing campaigns.
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Skills: UI-UX, Responsive-Design, Prototyping, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript

## Education

### Illinois Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science. 2010 - 2014

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Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Illinois Institute of Technology from 2010 to 2014.
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## Tech stack

- Postman
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon S3
- GitHub
- Kubernetes
- Docker Compose
- GitHub Actions
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Sentry
- Node.js
- Laravel
- Next.js
- Bootstrap
- Redis
- Jira
- JavaScript
- Python
- HTML5
- PHP
- FastAPI
- asyncio
- Laravel Telescope
- SQLAlchemy
- Linux
- TypeScript
- pytest
- Git
- Docker
- SQL
- Hugging Face
- LangChain
- LlamaIndex
- Weaviate
- Pydantic
- Pinecone
- pgvector
- LangGraph
- LangSmith
- Laravel Forge
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

To contact Jawad, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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