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Zain Ali Siddiqui

@zainalisiddiqui

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AI researcher and engineer specializing in generative models and production systems.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building production-ready generative AI systems with emphasis on model optimization, low-latency deployment, and cross-modal research-to-production impact in collaborative, engineering-driven teams.

I am an applied AI researcher and engineer focused on building production-ready generative AI systems, retrieval-augmented pipelines, and multimedia cloning solutions. I have developed Perplexity-style retrieval systems, audio cloning with real-time streaming and interruption handling, and optimized video cloning inference for faster performance.

I bring hands-on experience from on-site and remote roles, national award-winning projects in smart energy forecasting, and contributions to LLM-based recommender and debugging assistants. I prioritize robust engineering, model optimization, and delivering measurable accuracy and latency improvements for real-world deployments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

AI Applied Research Engineer

QLU.AI

Jul 2025 - Oct 2025 (3 months)

Developed a Perplexity-style retrieval system with Gemini 2.5 Flash and Serper, built real-time audio cloning and streaming pipelines, and engineered an AI avatar recruitment pipeline; optimized video cloning inference achieving 1.8x speedup and reduced average response time to 4 seconds.

Generative AI Whisper Optimization Python Agentic AI OpenRouter VAD NLP

AI Trainee

Scale AI

Jul 2023 - Oct 2023 (3 months)

Contributed to three projects (Bee LLM, Competitive Coder, Dolphin Genesis), improved LLM chatbot contextual responses, and designed/trained an AI code-debugging assistant to better identify and explain programming errors.

Prompt Engineering Python C++Model Evaluation Debugging Competitive Programming

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

FAST NUCES

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2021 - 2025

Activities and societies: Relevant coursework: Data Structures; Analysis & Algorithms; Artificial Intelligence; Deep Learning; Object Oriented Programming; Database (SQL); Data Science; Recommender Systems.

Pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework in data structures, algorithms, AI, deep learning, databases, and recommender systems; expected graduation May 2025.