Senior Team Lead, AI Wing · National IT Board

I architect and ship production AI: voice agents, trained models, and GPU inference

From a realtime Urdu and English voice assistant with a lip-synced avatar on government kiosks to distilled offline models and AML intelligence for FinTech. Hands-on, from the training run to the on-premises GPU.

PARVEEN · offline kiosk session
CitizenSmart card renew karwana hai, kya documents chahiye?
PARVEENNADRA counter, ground floor. Bring your old CNIC; the fee depends on the delivery category.

End of speech to PARVEEN speaking

Speech to text · Whisper (fine-tuned)798 ms
Answer selection · Qwen3-1.7B + LoRA300 ms
Avatar clip start · MuseTalk lip-sync82 ms

Unseen spoken turns

97.8%

Urdu word error rate

10.2%

Median response

1.19 s

On-prem NVIDIA L40S · CPU-only kiosks over LANNo cloud calls

Built AI and software systems across government, finance, education, and healthcare

GovernmentFinTech & AMLAI / MLEducationHealthcareOperations

What I build

Hands-on, from the training run to production.

Voice & Agentic AI

Realtime speech-to-speech agents that plan, call tools, keep state, and act safely

Model Training & Distillation

LoRA and QLoRA fine-tuning and teacher-student distillation on Apple MLX and NVIDIA CUDA

Realtime Avatars

Lip-synced talking heads streamed over WebRTC at 25 fps, with barge-in

GPU Inference

Cloud GPUs (NVIDIA T4, L4, L40S) and air-gapped on-premises deployments

Evaluation & Guardrails

LLM-judged test suites, release gates, and refusals for sensitive topics

AI for Regulated Industries

AML, fraud, and compliance workflows with human approval and audit trails

Featured work

AI systems in production first, then the products I built at startups.

PARVEEN — Voice AI Assistant for Government Kiosks

Problem

Citizens at the Pakistan Asaan Khidmat Center needed help with 69 services across 13 departments, in Urdu and English, from a kiosk anyone could use.

Solution

Built a realtime speech-to-speech agent with 20+ tools (service search, NADRA sign-in, queue tokens, record lookups) and a self-hosted lip-synced avatar streamed over WebRTC.

Outcome

Live on PAKC kiosks in Islamabad, rolled out in three phases, with a 720p avatar at 25 fps that stops talking within 85 ms when interrupted.

Gemini LiveOpenAI RealtimeMuseTalkWebRTCNext.js

Offline PARVEEN — Distilled Models on One GPU

Problem

A demo had to run with no cloud access at all, on CPU-only kiosks and a single on-premises GPU server.

Solution

Distilled the cloud assistant over one weekend: fine-tuned Qwen3-1.7B with LoRA to pick verified answer clips and fine-tuned Whisper on 7K synthetic Urdu/English clips.

Outcome

97.8% acceptable answers on 400 unseen spoken turns, Urdu word error rate down from 90% to 10%, and 1.2 s median response.

Qwen3LoRAWhisperMLXCUDANVIDIA L40S

AML & FINTRAC Reporting Intelligence

Problem

Compliance teams in FinTech and banking spend hours spotting laundering patterns and writing suspicious and large cash transaction reports by hand.

Solution

Architected a transaction knowledge graph with GNN and LightGBM models, plus a self-hosted LLM that drafts cited STR and CTR narratives for FINTRAC filing after human approval.

Outcome

Fraud model at 0.99 ROC-AUC with 84.5% recall at a 0.1% false-positive rate, and every filing traceable through a hash-chained audit trail.

Neo4jPyTorch GeometricLightGBMvLLMFastAPI

Ad Marketplace Platform

Problem

A growing ad network had no centralized platform for advertisers to manage campaigns, bids, and performance data. Teams tracked everything in spreadsheets.

Solution

Built a full-stack ad marketplace with campaign management, real-time bidding logic, analytics dashboards, and automated billing — deployed on AWS.

Outcome

Reduced campaign launch time from 3 days to under 4 hours. Platform handled 10K+ daily events without degradation.

Next.jsNestJSPostgreSQLRedisAWS

Operations Dashboard

Problem

An operations team was working from 6 different spreadsheets to track inventory, tasks, and team performance. No single source of truth existed.

Solution

Designed and built a unified internal dashboard with role-based access, real-time data sync, charts, and export capabilities across all departments.

Outcome

Eliminated 3 manual reporting processes. Leadership could pull live operational status in under 30 seconds.

ReactNode.jsMySQLRechartsDocker

Appointment Scheduling System

Problem

A healthcare provider was managing bookings manually over phone and email. Double-bookings and missed appointments were a constant issue.

Solution

Built a scheduling platform with calendar sync, SMS/email reminders, provider availability management, and patient self-booking portal.

Outcome

No-show rate dropped by 38%. Provider schedules filled 22% faster after self-booking went live.

Next.jsPrismaPostgreSQLTwilioVercel

Systems I build look like this

Clean interfaces for real business logic.

Revenue metrics

Total Revenue

$124K

+18%

Avg Order

$84

+5%

Customers

1,847

+23%

Churn Rate

1.4%

-0.3%

Monthly signups

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Recent orders

CustomerPlanStatus
Acme CorpEnterpriseActive
TechFlowProActive
SkylineStarterTrial
NovaLabsEnterpriseActive
DataSyncProPaused

System status

API Gateway
99.98%
Database
99.95%
Worker Queue
99.90%
File Storage
100%
Webhooks
98.2%

User settings

Full Name

Alex Mercer

Email

alex@acmecorp.com

Role

Admin
Save changes

Sprint progress

Auth module100%
Dashboard UI80%
API integration60%
Export reports35%
Mobile layout15%

How I work

A simple, transparent process — no surprises.

01

Understand your problem

We start with a conversation. I dig into what you're building, why it matters, and what success looks like. No assumptions, no guesswork.

02

Design the system

I map out the architecture, data flows, and component structure before writing code. A clear design means fewer surprises later.

03

Build fast

I ship working software in iterations. You see progress from week one and can give feedback at every step. No black-box development.

04

Iterate and scale

Launch is not the end. I help you refine based on real usage, add features, and make sure the system can handle what comes next.

About

I'm a product-focused engineer who builds systems, not just websites. I focus on clarity, scalability, and execution — helping businesses move from idea to working product efficiently.

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