I build and ship production AI
Applied AI · 2025
SCAN
Issued by usmanmateen.com · WMG · Energy One
Pakistan · Portugal · Spain · Gibraltar · Norway · Wales · England
Real projects, shipped — not just slideware.
A security SDK, a commercial SaaS platform, and products launched solo. Each solved a real problem for real users.
An AI firewall that detects LLM prompt-injection attacks in real time.
LLM-powered products are vulnerable to prompt injection, and there was no lightweight, explainable guardrail to catch it inline.
Designed and delivered in 48 hours, pitched to NatWest and Google Cloud judges. Deployed to GCP Cloud Run, published as an open-source Python SDK, with a React monitoring dashboard for real-time visibility.
A commercial SaaS platform that automates project-data migration between Azure DevOps and Jira.
Migrating tickets and project data between enterprise tools is slow, manual, and error-prone.
Architected a secure, scalable, multi-tenant cloud platform (AWS, infrastructure-as-code) with an AI-driven data-processing layer under a strict enterprise data-privacy model — plus automated CI/CD, tenant isolation, and usage-based pricing.
A verified platform for students to take over each other's tenancies safely.
Built and launched solo across two universities — owning market research, product, build, deployment and a zero-budget go-to-market across print, Reddit and student press.
A tool for developers to debug and replay webhooks.
Built and publicly launched on Product Hunt, idea to live product.
PhoneHub
A point-of-sale and inventory system for a family-run phone-repair business.
Shipping in production — not just side projects.
Software Developer
- Scoped, pitched to senior stakeholders, and shipped an automated tool that migrated all support tickets from Zendesk to Jira across the UK and France — preserving structure and history, and removing significant manual processing.
- Introduced AI- and automation-based tooling, including LLM/RAG solutions, to streamline internal workflows and reduce manual effort across teams.
- Partner with business teams to translate commercial requirements into delivered solutions for enterprise energy-trading (ETRM) systems, owning work from requirements through design to deployment.
Software Engineer Intern
- Contributed to data processing and analysis for AI-based energy-market prediction models and supported feature development across the platform.
- Built a strong understanding of how technical delivery connects to business outcomes through QA, support and load testing in a live trading environment.
Senior IT Support Engineer
- Resolved complex infrastructure issues for business clients with a 95% resolution rate, building client-facing communication and structured problem-solving under operational pressure.
Engineer first, AI second —
both, always shipping.
I'm an AI engineer and software developer with a First-Class BSc in Computer Science with AI from Coventry, finishing an MSc in Applied AI at Warwick (WMG). I build applied AI — LLM and RAG systems, automation, integrations — and I ship my own products end to end.
Right now I'm at Energy One in the energy-trading sector, working across Python, C#/.NET and TypeScript. My dissertation benchmarks hybrid retrieval strategies — dense, sparse, knowledge-graph and visual-semantic — for enterprise RAG against the FinanceBench dataset.
I care about the unglamorous part: making AI actually run — reliable, explainable, and in production. And I can explain any of it to someone non-technical without the jargon.
Based in Birmingham and open to mid-level AI engineer, AI developer, and applied machine learning roles across the UK — remote, hybrid, or relocation considered for teams building LLM products and RAG systems.
- Buildingenterprise systems at Energy One (energy-trading / ETRM)
- StudyingMSc Applied AI at Warwick (WMG)
- Researchinghybrid retrieval for enterprise RAG vs. FinanceBench
Mid-level AI / applied-AI / software-engineering roles.
The tools I reach for.
Languages & Frameworks
codeAI & Machine Learning
ai/mlAI Tooling & Agentic Dev
toolingCloud & DevOps
cloudData & Integration
dataConsulting & Delivery
deliveryOpen to mid-level AI roles — say hello.
Hiring an AI engineer or developer? The fastest way to reach me is email. I read everything and reply to anything that looks like a fit.