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Qadeer Haider

@qadeerhaider

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I build production OCR and LLM systems that improve accuracy, latency, and cost.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to solve real-world problems with cutting-edge AI/ML, particularly by building accurate, efficient production systems for computer vision, OCR, and LLM applications.

Data Scientist with hands-on experience in computer vision, OCR systems, LLM fine-tuning, and production ML deployment. Proven track record of reducing costs, improving model accuracy, and optimizing inference pipelines. Passionate about solving real-world problems with cutting-edge AI/ML techniques

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Associate Data Scientist

Current

Machine Learning 1 (Private) Limited

Oct 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)

Replaced Google DocumentAI with an in-house OCR pipeline at Shufti Pro by fine-tuning PaddleOCR models across 9+ languages, achieving up to 98% recognition accuracy and cutting operational costs by around 70%. Owned the end-to-end OCR pipeline for multilingual KYC processing, including data preparation, training, deployment, and production monitoring.

Paddle OCR OCR Python Git CI CD LLM VLLM Quantization Tensor Parallelism Benchmarking Deep Learning Computer Vision

Data Science Intern

Machine Learning 1 (Private) Limited

Jul 2024 - Sep 2024 (2 months)

Developed and fine-tuned OCR models for multilingual KYC processing using PaddleOCR, achieving up to 98% recognition accuracy. Built a synthetic data generation pipeline producing 100,000+ training samples, improving model robustness and reducing OCR error rates by approximately 12%.

Paddle OCR OCR YOLO Synthetic Data Generation Data Augmentation Python Deep Learning Computer Vision

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

DataCamp

Associate Data Scientist in Python, Data Science

Associate Data Scientist in Python certification from DataCamp, completed in 2026.

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

Bachelor of Science, Data Science

2020 - 2024

Grade: 3.28 CGPA

Activities and societies: Served as Deputy Head of Education in the Data Science Society, mentoring students, developing curriculum, and organizing workshops.

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Data Science from FAST Lahore, with coursework in data analysis, AI, data mining, NLP, and computer vision. Developed skills in Python, TensorFlow, and data visualization through hands-on projects.