Muhammad Awais

Senior AI and full-stack engineer leading end-to-end engagements through Upwork (Top Rated Plus), brought in as the technical lead clients don’t have in-house. I own the work from software audit and architecture through production and post-launch, across retail, field services and enterprise operations. Delivery has ranged from hardware-to-cloud retail automation (RFID kiosks, Android apps, paymen

Elisa for Life is an insurtech startup modernizing how permanent life insurance is sold. Our product, ELISA, is a digital advisor that embeds on life insurance agents’ websites, giving consumers a self-directed buying experience while generating qualified leads for agents around the clock.

As the first CTO, I own the technology end to end, working directly with the founder and marketing team to t

Backend and data engineer on a pre-launch SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance automation platform. I build the multi-tenant services and pipelines that turn a client's own systems into audit-ready evidence.

~ Control Library service in NestJS and PostgreSQL: framework versioning, snapshots, caching and Kafka events
~ Ingestion layer on Apache NiFi 2.x with per-tenant provisioning, plus Microsoft Graph

I built software engineering and computer-use benchmarks and contributed LLM training data for frontier AI models. On SWE Atlas and SWE-bench (JavaScript), I built tasks from real-world GitHub repositories, covering bug fixing, feature implementation and refactoring for autonomous coding agents. I authored problem statements, golden patches and F2P/P2P test suites in pytest and Jest for determinis

Senior contributor on Terminal-Bench 1.0 and 2.0, owning the full lifecycle of benchmark tasks for evaluating frontier LLM coding agents in the Harbor framework. Authored long-horizon agentic tasks across Linux sysadmin, Bash, build systems, debugging and networking. Engineered reproducible Docker environments with oracle solutions and pytest/shell verification for deterministic grading. Hardened

• Designed and authored multi-step computer-use tasks for Meta's GUI agent across various platforms.
• Annotated and evaluated agent trajectories, identifying errors and inconsistencies in user interactions.
• Developed rubric-based grades and feedback to enhance RLHF and SFT data pipelines for model training.
• Ensured data quality through rigorous QA standards, improving reproducibility an

Led AI/LLM system development and full-stack delivery for US clients, including a Financial Services client from Baltimore then promoted to Tech Lead, managing a 7-engineer team.
~ Built a document to a structured data pipeline that turned a days-long manual loan pricing workflow into hours of LLM extraction, schema-enforced outputs, LoanPass and Salesforce integration.
~ Delivered a Client Porta

ML Engineer on PackageX's AI scanning platform, the OCR, barcode, and computer vision stack (APIs, SDKs, and mobile apps) that powers automated package receiving, mailroom, and inventory workflows for US enterprise clients.
~ Built and optimized OCR and vision models for shipping label extraction, parsing recipient, carrier, and tracking data from damaged, skewed, and low-quality label images; dep

Developed logistics focused web and mobile workflows for OCR scanning, package intake, mailroom operations, inventory visibility, real time tracking, and recipient notifications. Used React, React Native, Django REST Framework, Node.js, Python, and API integrations to support package scanning, label recognition, operational dashboards, and internal logistics automation. Collaborated on performance

Full-stack engineer delivering client products end to end. Web platforms, e-commerce, and internal business systems across MERN/MEAN, Next.js, and .NET stacks.
~ Built Step Sport Center (stepsportcenter.com) an academy management platform with RFID-based attendance, real-time scheduling via WebSockets, Stripe payments, and admin operations; cut manual attendance work by 90% for 10,000+ users
~ Sp

Developed and maintained business websites, admin panels, employee management systems, and internal tools using MERN/​MEAN technologies. Worked with React, Next.js, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Angular, JavaScript, authentication flows, reusable UI components, API integrations, and database driven workflows. Supported bug fixing, testing, performance optimization, feature enhancements, and long t

Completed BS in Software Engineering from FAST NUCES, building strong foundation in software architecture, data structures, algorithms, databases, web development, and full stack application engineering.

Completed an MS in Artificial Intelligence from NUST to strengthen advanced expertise in machine learning, large language models, computer vision, deep learning, and applied AI system development.