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MUNEEB SHAFIQ

AI ENGINEER · AGENT SYSTEMS

I build agent systems that run unattended, and the gates that stop them.

Multi-agent orchestration, retrieval grounding, and human-in-the-loop approval design, for teams whose LLM automation has to clear a security, compliance, or client sign-off before it ships.

OR READ THE CASE STUDIES
  • 9

    AGENTS, SCOPED WRITES

  • 314

    COMMITS BY MY ORCHESTRATOR

  • 12,060

    DISCLOSED VULN REPORTS

  • 9.8M

    REGISTRY ROWS PER BUILD

provider-research-factory · run
$ factory run "cardiologists, US"[stream] NPPES rows ...... 9.8M[match]  taxonomy exact 73,394[qa]     7 lenses, 2-of-3 rule[gate]   compliance ..... PASS
Blocked on: human · click the gate
Muneeb Shafiq

Muneeb Shafiq

Associate AI Engineer at Symufolk · BS Data Science, Oct 2027

Open to work

 

01 · WORK · 4 FLAGSHIP · 8 SECONDARY

Case studies, not screenshots.

Each flagship is written up end to end: the problem, the architecture, the trade-offs, and exactly what I did. The rest get one line each.

02 · HOW I WORK

Four rules the pipelines are built on.

  1. 01

    Orchestrate deterministically.

    Use models only where judgment is actually required. The control flow, the state transitions and the stopping conditions are code.

  2. 02

    Gates are code, not policy documents.

    If it can be skipped under deadline pressure, it was never a gate.

  3. 03

    An unexercised guard is not a guard.

    I run every guard at least once against a case it should catch.

  4. 04

    Label the gap, let it surface.

    When a step can't be completed, I say so rather than dropping it silently.

03 · SKILLS · 36 · EVIDENCE-LINKED

Nothing here that I can't open the file for.

Each skill links to the projects that use it. Counts come from the case studies, not from me.

Lime = core· ×N = projects

01 · ORCHESTRATION & AGENT CONTROL

7 skills
  • Multi-agent orchestration (custom)×2
  • Claude Agent SDK & subagents×3
  • Prompt engineering, agent briefs as versioned code×4
  • Human-in-the-loop approval gates×2
  • Compliance-as-code×1
  • Adversarial verification panels×1
  • LLM cost & quota engineering×1

02 · RETRIEVAL & GROUNDING

7 skills
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)×2
  • Structured / JSON-schema output×2
  • Google Gemini API×3
  • ChromaDB×2
  • Pydantic×2
  • ONNX Runtime (MiniLM embeddings)×2
  • LangChain (document loaders, text splitters)×1

03 · GATES, PROVENANCE & AUDIT

6 skills
  • Application security, JWT, bcrypt, TOTP MFA, Fernet encryption, RBAC×2
  • Semgrep & Bandit integration×1
  • Build manifests, data contracts & runtime assertions×1
  • Append-only audit & approval ledgers×3
  • pytest, 215 tests, CI-gated×3
  • GitHub Actions CI/CD×1

04 · DATA & PIPELINES

11 skills
  • Python×5
  • Data pipelines / ETL×2
  • PostgreSQL / Supabase×2
  • SQLAlchemy 2.0 + Alembic×1
  • SQL×3
  • scikit-learn / LightGBM×1
  • Model evaluation (class imbalance, F1/precision/recall)×2
  • Power BI×1
  • Transformer fine-tuning (token classification)×1
  • Hugging Face Transformers×1
  • NER / token classification×1

05 · INTERFACES & DELIVERY

5 skills
  • FastAPI×2
  • React 18×2
  • TypeScript×2
  • Docker×1
  • Cloud deployment (Render · Vercel · Supabase · Cloudflare R2)×1

NOT YET

No LLM-output evaluation, no GPU serving, no managed vector index at scale, no distributed tracing. The nearest one is measuring my own verifier. The harness is designed, answer keys anchored to verbatim source strings so a hallucinated location dies to a failed string search, a human adjudicator so an LLM never grades its own output, a held-out split touched once, and building it is what I'm doing next.

04 · EXPERIENCE

Where I've built, and for whom.

  1. Symufolk

    Lahore software house: custom AI builds and staff augmentation.

    Apr 2026 – Present

    Associate AI Engineer

    FULL-TIMEJul 2026 – Present

    Promoted from AI Engineer Intern after four months.

    • Architected a nine-agent course production pipeline, producer, research analyst, curriculum architect, deck writer, assessment designer, lab engineer, QA reviewer, TA agent, video producer, turning a course topic into an instructor-approved package. Every agent has a written brief, a model tier and folder-scoped write permissions.
    • Enforced a forward-only state machine with three human approval gates and a 940-line append-only approval log that records a real Gate 2 rejection, not only sign-offs. An 18-check QA reviewer blocks the final gate and is permitted to find defects, never to fix them.
    • Wrote the founding architecture of a query-to-dataset factory, deterministic streaming pipeline, 11 declared assertions, a seven-lens adversarial QA panel in which each finding must survive two of three independent refutation attempts, and a compliance gate that can only permit or block, then ran the first end-to-end build by hand, producing a 22,195-record dataset identical to my hand-built reference. The system streams ~9.8M registry rows per national build and has delivered datasets of 409,848, 73,394 and 22,195 records.
    • Python 3.12/3.13
    • Claude Code subagents
    • Claude Opus 5 / Sonnet 5 / Haiku 4.5
    • Google Gemini
    • RAG grounding packs
    • FastAPI

    AI Engineer Intern

    INTERNSHIPApr 2026 – Jul 2026
    • Architected a modular crypto futures trading system as a seven-layer pipeline, data ingestion, feature engineering, market-state detection, multi-strategy signals, signal fusion, risk management, execution, with separation of concerns strict enough to hold backtest/live parity.
    • Delivered two further production AI systems, Market Pulse and a Reconciliation Agent, on event-driven architecture with structured LLM output and database-level data-integrity constraints.
    • Researched token usage, token economics and token-optimization strategies across the leading LLMs to guide cost-efficient model selection and routing.
    • Python
    • Event-driven architecture
    • JSON-schema LLM output
    • Backtest–live parity
    • LLM token accounting
  2. NETSOL Technologies

    NASDAQ-listed Lahore firm; asset-finance and leasing software.

    Sep 2026 – Dec 2026

    AI/ML Trainee

    TRAINEESHIPSep 2026 – Dec 2026

    Started 1 September 2026. Runs to 31 December 2026, alongside the Symufolk role. Outcomes will be added as the programme produces them.

  3. Fiverr

    Global freelance marketplace for digital services.

    May 2025 – Present

    8 CLIENTS · 5 COUNTRIES · 4.9/5 · VERIFY ON FIVERR

    AI & Data Analytics Freelancer, Level 1 Seller

    FREELANCEMay 2025 – Present
    • Migrated 300 GB of reporting from Qlik Sense to Power BI, rebuilding the data models and the ETL/cleaning logic rather than porting them.
    • Delivered eight publicly reviewed engagements, dashboard development, data analysis and data visualization, for clients in five countries (Pakistan, the UK, Canada, the UAE and the US), one of whom came back for a second order. Order values $50–$200, delivery 1–6 days.
    • 4.9/5 across those eight reviews (seven 5-star, one 4-star), at Level 1 Seller, a platform-awarded tier, not a self-reported one.
    • Power BI
    • Qlik Sense
    • SQL
    • Excel
    • Dimensional modeling
    • ETL / data cleaning
  4. Devsinc

    Lahore software services firm serving international clients.

    Jan 2025 – Present

    Campus Ambassador

    VOLUNTARYJan 2025 – Present
    • Led technical workshops on Python, SQL and AI/ML fundamentals for 100+ students.
    • Arranged industry tours connecting students to working engineering teams.
    • Python
    • SQL
    • AI/ML fundamentals
  5. Manafa Technologies

    Lahore technology arm of Manafa, a Saudi crowdfunding fintech

    Jan 2026 – Jun 2026

    Campus Ambassador

    VOLUNTARYJan 2026 – Jun 2026
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06 · CONTACT

Open to work. Here's the fastest route.

Email is best, it forwards, it threads, and I answer it. If you're hiring, the role and the timeline are enough to get a useful reply.

BOOK A CALL · 25 MINAny weekday, 1–10 PM Pakistan time.

I reply within one business day. Weekday mail sent before 4 PM in London arrives inside my working day. If you don't hear back, follow up: it got buried, not ignored.

Availability

Open to work, remote from Lahore (UTC+5, no DST). Core hours 1:00–10:00 PM PKT.

Overlap with your day

  • London

    Full day

    09:00 – 17:00

  • Berlin

    7 hrs

    10:00 – 17:00

    full day Nov–Mar

  • Dubai

    6 hrs

    12:00 – 18:00

  • New York

    3 hrs

    09:00 – 12:00

    4 hrs Mar–Nov

Engagement

  • Independent contractor, invoicing from Pakistan. W-8BEN on file for US clients.
  • No visa or sponsorship required, all work performed from Lahore.
  • Comfortable onboarding through an EOR of your choosing, or your own contractor paper.
  • Not seeking relocation before October 2027.
  • Happy to take an unscheduled video call, ID in hand.