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RAFID SAAD

AI ENGINEER

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Shipping fast, scalable systems. Automating the boring. Building tools engineers actually want to use.

ABOUT

Backend & mlops Engineer | Systems Thinker | Builder of AI-Augmented Tools

A backend engineer with deep Dev & MLOps experience, focused on designing scalable systems, building automation-first infrastructure, and developing tools that make engineers (and humans) more effective. From orchestrating LLM agents that surface project insights to building blazing-fast local inference pipelines, he brings technical clarity to complex challenges.

SKILLS

Areas of Expertise

  • DevOps (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)

  • MLOps

  • CI/CD & Infra-as-Code (Terraform, GitHub Actions)

  • Kotlin & Java

  • Backend Architecture & Microservices

  • Typescript & Python

  • Generative AI & LLMs

  • LLM Orchestration

CoHear

A relationship repair agent that uses LLMs to gently surface pain points and nudge understanding between partners.

Linear Agent

A command-line assistant that summarizes, prioritizes, and balances engineering workloads via natural language queries.

video-transcriber-pro

A Whisper + LLaMA-powered CLI for fast, on-device transcription and summarization—built for batch workflows and speed.

PROJECTS

October 2023 – Present

Staff AI Engineer /

3Y Health

  • Partnered with leadership and cross-functional teams to define AI strategy, roadmap, and key technical decisions for next-gen AI products.

  • Architected and led the development of a scalable Generative AI framework, increasing AI development speed by 2× and reducing model deployment time by 40%.

  • Designed and integrated enterprise-grade AI chatbots capable of handling tens of thousands of requests.

  • Designed and implemented AI ML ops - AI model evaluation, cost analysis, and result monitoring systems.

October 2022 – October 2023

Co-Founder

fastn.ai

  • Co-founded fastn to use generative AI to automate, and simplify building backend systems.

  • Selected for YC interview S'23

  • 3X improvement in AI-generated results: Designed and implemented generative AI backend using langchain. The results directly helped clinch multiple sales.

July 2010 – May 2014

Senior Software Engineer

Fabric.inc

  • Cross-organization leadership: Led CMS and integration teams, and ran API standardization, multi-tenancy, and cost optimization initiatives across

  • Reduced failure rate by 5X: Introduced safer deployment and release strategies. Strategies and tools I set up were used to improve product resilience in multiple teams.

  • Reduced operational cost 20X: Redesigned and built multi-tenant, microservice-based CMS. Reduced AWS bill by 70%, helped release team resources to focus on critical customer features.

  • Reduced latencies by 10X (under 150ms): Using event-based design, read-optimized data, CDN and caching.

WORK EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Computing Security

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY / Graduated:2019

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan / Graduated:2013

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect– Associate

Oracle Certified Professional,
Java SE 8 Programmer

AWS Certified Solutions Architect– Associate

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LET'S WORK TOGETHER

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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