Background

Hi I'm Asfa Jamil

An AI Engineer building production-grade
LLM & NLP systems

Impact & Credentials

Who Am I?

Profile

I build and optimize LLM/NLP platforms and cloud-native ML systems from telecom reporting automation (NLU replacing Amazon Lex) to compliant fintech backends and geospatial risk analytics using Python/FastAPI, AWS (Bedrock/Lambda/ECS), and Java/Spring Boot

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LLMs/NLP

Advancing digital security through cutting-edge research and innovative solutions

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Cloud & MLOps

Cloud & MLOps

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Data & ML

Data & ML

Career Path

Professional Journey

From research intern to leading AI teams, explore the roles and responsibilities that shaped my career.

Dec 2024 - Present

AI Engineer

Commonwealth Limited

Cork, Ireland

Key Responsibilities:

  • Built an LLM/LG platform requiring Amazon Leo, Python/FastAPI + ReflexReactUI on Azure RG7
  • Shipped vectorized in-store cust SqMFt + 98% in-section accuracy
  • Optimized monthly 30 results in machine age thin artificial rules designing
  • Cut losses EU-15% and added validation: monitoring, & observability

Dec 2022 - Nov 2024

Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead

IBM Research Limited

Nicosia, Cyprus, Remote

Key Responsibilities:

  • Built complete for green deployment.AI ML/AI analytics
  • Developed living-hour feedback score for org efficiency and operations
  • Implemented Real-time static detection models and rate based checks
  • Designed CLI from dev, as a base PCI, mailer productionization

Aug 2021 - Jun 2024

AI Engineer Geospatial Data Analyst

CYENS Centre of Excellence

Nicosia, Cyprus

Key Responsibilities:

  • Developed AWS-based GeoAI for geospatial analysis and risk scoring
  • Integrated CI services using Python Data Science K Tree
  • Built RAG chat models for 1M+ documents
  • Optimized TensorFlow super-resolution and spatial mastery pipeline

Jan 2022 - Apr 2024

Geospatial Analyst and Data Engineer

Freelance

Nicosia, Cyprus

Key Responsibilities:

  • Built ETL from Million images into 1 Postgres
  • Run synchronized queue for 1 Gbps streaming tasks
  • Cut incident report search time to 1m worldwide
  • Built Real-API for real-time planning dashboards

Jan 2021 - Jul 2021

Data Engineer and Machine Learning Expert

Technojobs Pro Limited

Lagos, Nigeria

Key Responsibilities:

  • Built HTTPS pipeline for 1 review and Maps
  • Transforming table for trades on API databases
  • Generated dashboards and analytics on Power BI
  • Integrated SDWAN MESH links and fabric from using API

Jun 2019 - Dec 2020

Assistant Manager - Software Engineer

Symantec of Pakistan

Faisalabad

Key Responsibilities:

  • Built validation software for verification to assist testing workflows
  • Performed unit tests and stress testing on embedded software
  • Developed report generation from using ML algorithms
  • Update data schema and data process for automation
Projects

Selected Work

A curated set of projects with the problem, approach, tech stack, and measurable results.

Applied Research2023

GAEA Project & SuPerWorld Geo-API (2021 – 2024)

Tech Innovations × Global Corp

A modular framework measuring and strengthening security resilience of cloud-robotic business processes through advanced AI-driven analysis.

2+
Years Active
Industry
Partnership
AIGeospatialRisk ModellingEnvironmental Data
FINTECH PLATFORM2021 - 2024

PBT PAY – Payment Gateway Management

Dell Technologies × MTU

Multi-country payment gateway delivering secure, scalable, real-time transaction processing across regulated markets.

3+
Years Active
Industry
Partnership
PaymentsFintechMicroservicesCloud Native
Research

Applied Research Work

Applied research in ML/NLP/GeoAI methods, experiments, and learnings turned into usable

Springer Nature Switzerland2023

GAEA: A Country-Scale Geospatial Environmental Modelling Tool: Towards a Digital Twin for Real Estate

Environmental Informatics • 2023

Monitoring the physical and artificial environment at large-scale is crucial for approaching significant problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and sustainable urban growth

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Citations
Published
Status
Climate ChangeBiodiversity LossSustainable Urban Growth
Groundbreaking Work

Key Wins

Innovations and contributions that have made a significant impact on the industry and research community

Trainings2022

Winners — Huawei Seeds for the Future (Cyprus)

Winners of the Huawei Seeds for the Future Program in all of Cyprus. Issued by Huawei (Jul 2022).

Impact

National-level recognition as top participants in a flagship Huawei program.

Hackathons2023

Runner Up — Student Innovators Competition

Runner-up in the Student Innovators Competition organized by the Centre for Entrepreneurship (C4E), University of Cyprus.

Impact

Recognized as a top student innovation team at University of Cyprus.

Educational Achievements2014

3rd Position (District) in KIMC

Achieved 3rd position in district in Kangaroo International Mathematics Competition.

Impact

District-level recognition for mathematics performance.

Educational Achievements2013

Quaid-e-Azam Scholarship

Scholarship issued by Government of Province Punjab, Pakistan. Issued Jan 2013.

Impact

Awarded government scholarship support for education.

Technical Expertise

Core Competencies

A comprehensive view of my technical skills and proficiency levels across different domains

Cloud (AWS): Lambda · S3 · Cognito · CloudWatch · ECS · Bedrock90%
NLP: intent · slots · entities90%
Cloud (Azure): ADF · Azure SQL90%
ML/DL: XGBoost · TF · PyTorch90%
Backend: Python (FastAPI) · Java (Spring) · REST88%
Eval/XAI: precision/recall · hallucinations · explainability80%
LLMs: orchestration · prompts · structured outputs90%
Data/ETL: ADF · Databricks · PySpark · ingestion85%
ML Workflows: batch · real-time · distributed90%
DevOps: Docker · Kubernetes · Jenkins · Git80%
Databases: Postgres · MSSQL · Mongo80%
Performance: schema · indexing · optimization90%