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Muhammad Arslan Shahzad

@muhammadarslanshahza

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Senior AI engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG pipelines, and agent systems.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building production GenAI/LLM systems with strong emphasis on scalable architecture, reliable deployments, and reducing hallucinations through evaluation and monitoring.

I am a Senior AI Engineer focused on building production GenAI systems, RAG pipelines, and tool-using multi-agent orchestration that reduce hallucinations and improve reliability.

I have shipped LLM-backed backend services and multi-agent systems using FastAPI, Docker, Azure CI/CD, and monitoring, supporting dozens of users and thousands of queries daily while ensuring observability and safe releases.

My work includes fine-tuning models (LLaMA, Mistral) with QLoRA and PEFT, implementing hybrid retrieval and reranking strategies that significantly improved grounding quality, and integrating real-time APIs and validation layers for robust tool-calling workflows.

I also deliver end-to-end GenAI/NLP solutions for clients, build evaluation harnesses to measure and reduce hallucinations, and contribute to open-source ML/NLP projects; I aim to join teams that prioritize production-ready ML, scalable architecture, and responsible model behavior.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior AI Engineer

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Mutare Group, LLC

Aug 2025 - Present (5 months)

Led production deployment of multi-agent GenAI systems integrating real-time APIs/tools, improving grounding quality by 90% and reducing hallucinations via evaluation harnesses while enabling safer releases with Azure CI/CD and monitoring.

RAG Agentic Systems LLaMA Mistral QLoRA fastAPI Docker Monitoring

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Freelance ML Engineer

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Upwork

Sep 2023 - Present (2 years 4 months)

Delivered end-to-end GenAI and NLP solutions for global clients, producing production-ready pipelines and Dockerized FastAPI services with evaluation loops to improve response consistency.

fastAPI Docker RAG Streamlit API Design

AI/ML Engineer

Mutare Group, LLC

Nov 2023 - Jul 2025 (1 year 8 months)

Built scalable LLM-backed backend services serving 110 users and 1,000+ queries/day, shipped RAG and search workflows to improve response usefulness, and integrated external APIs with robust validation and error handling.

RAG Embeddings fastAPI Docker API Integration Containerization

ML Intern

OZI Technology

Jun 2023 - Sep 2023 (3 months)

Designed and trained a U-Net segmentation model for background removal, built a dataset pipeline of 10K+ labeled images, and deployed inference demos achieving sub-second latency.

U Net Segmentation Data Labeling PyTorch Streamlit OpenCV Image Processing

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Virtual University of Pakistan

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2019 - 2023

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework in Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Artificial Intelligence, DBMS, and System Design.