Forward Deployed Engineer / AI Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineer & AI Engineer bridging local LLM/NLP pipelines with complex C++/C# systems and cross-org client delivery. Published researcher on LLM-driven dialogue systems (ICHORA 2024) with 2+ years of production software engineering in Agile teams, leading code reviews and cross-functional coordination across multiple stakeholders.

Professional Summary

Expertise lies at the intersection of applied AI/ML systems, legacy C++/C# integration, and client-facing R&D delivery. Proven track record in domain-adapting local models (QLoRA fine-tuning), building Python FastAPI and asynchronous IPC bridges, engineering custom mathematical spatial systems for external venue partners (CULTVR Lab & Media Cymru), and leading cross-functional engineering teams (40% to 90% sprint completion boost, 10–30 FPS performance gains).

A founding member and fellow of AI Safety Cardiff University (AISCU), with deep interest in deterministic guardrails, catastrophic AI risk, model evaluation, biosecurity, and privacy controls.

Technical Skills

  • ML & AI: PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, QLoRA Fine-Tuning, Deterministic Guardrails, scikit-learn, pandas, numpy, NLP, RAG, Model Evaluation, Behavior Trees
  • Core Languages: Python, C++, C#
  • APIs & Systems Integration: FastAPI, REST APIs, Asynchronous IPC Bridges, SQL, JSON Schema Validation, Wit.ai, Whisper
  • Engineering & Delivery: Git, Code Review, Agile/Scrum, Profiling & Optimization, Cross-Org Stakeholder Delivery, Technical Team Leadership

Experience & Leadership

Engineering Team Coordinator — Landell Games

Feb 2025 – Present | Remote / Sweden

  • Promoted from Engineering Intern. Team lead on a live-service software project (Apoceus).
  • Coordinated a 3–6 person engineering team, translating production priorities into sprint tasks and raising sprint success from 40% to 90%.
  • Profiled and optimized system performance bottlenecks, improving frame time by 10–30 FPS on target hardware.
  • Conducted code reviews and enforced clean Git/Plastic branch hygiene across a remote team.
  • Owned weekly build pipelines and mediated cross-functional concerns between 5 department leads.

Cross-Org Systems Engineer (R&D) — Awkward Studios (CULTVR & Media Cymru)

Cardiff, UK

  • Collaborated in a cross-org engineering team for venue partner CULTVR Lab and sponsor Media Cymru, bridging critical gaps in open-source 360° dome projection tooling where no off-the-shelf UI specification existed.
  • Solved 360° spherical UI distortion by developing an editor-safe Unity C# component that directly manipulated TextMesh Pro vertex buffers and orbital trajectories using custom trigonometry and Quaternion rotations.
  • Engineered a projection-boundary clipping system to eliminate text artifacting across half-sphere dome limits and built decoupled state-transition APIs using C# delegates and coroutines.

Education & Fellowships

MSc Artificial Intelligence — Cardiff University

2025 – 2027

  • Dissertation (Skyrim LLM Bridge): Architected an asynchronous Python/C++ IPC bridge and deterministic state-machine validator supporting both online and offline LLMs; fine-tuned Gemma 2B via 4-bit QLoRA to raise routing compliance from 19.0% → 53.4% (p < 0.001) at 0.98s median latency across 1,500 trials. Shipped across GitHub, Hugging Face, and Nexus Mods.
  • AI Safety Founding Fellow (Spring 2026): Completed AI Safety Cardiff University (AISCU) fellowship on catastrophic risks, reward hacking, model evaluations, and AI governance.
  • Computer Vision: Bounding-box localization via RF-DETR fine-tuning on VOC2012 using PyTorch.
  • Computational Linguistics: NLP pipeline development using pandas, scikit-learn, speech-to-text, intent detection, and emotion analysis.
  • Technical AI: Real-time voice-driven AI pipeline with FastAPI, Whisper, and Hugging Face, integrated into C++.

BEng Computer Engineering — Islamic Azad University, Tehran

2020 – 2025

  • Graduated with First-Class Honours. Core study: Data Structures & Algorithms, Advanced Programming (C++), SQL and database design, Computational Architecture and Networks.

Honors & Awards

  • DiffTrailblazers (Cardiff University): Won 1st place (£1,500 prize) for a practical innovation project.

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