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Engineering ideas into intelligent systems.

AI/ML engineer and SIH 2025 winner passionate about building practical AI projects, exploring emerging technologies, and solving meaningful problems through engineering.

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NEWF · SFAIZAL SHAIKH
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ENGINEERING IDENTITYOVERVIEW

About Me

I am an AI/ML engineer with a strong interest in artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and software development. I enjoy transforming complex ideas into practical and meaningful solutions.

Through hands-on projects and the Smart India Hackathon, I have developed skills in Python, AI-powered applications, and collaborative problem-solving. I am passionate about exploring emerging technologies, building innovative systems, and continuously growing as an AI engineer.

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SELECTED WORKENGINEERING CATALOG

Systems & Platforms

A selection of production-shaped machine learning solutions, infrastructure pipelines, and deep learning implementations.

PROJECT 012025 – 2026
PLATE II — SCIENTIFIC ATLAS
Chronicle - EVALUATION APPARATUS & PROMPT VERSION LINEAGE

EVALUATION APPARATUS & PROMPT VERSION LINEAGE

ETCHED BALANCE SCALE · VERSION MANUSCRIPT · PROMOTION MEDALLION

Chronicle

AI-powered Multi-LLM platform for prompt versioning, A/B testing, and execution tracking.

  • Built a PostgreSQL-backed prompt version control system with cryptographically hashed, immutable version histories and append-only release promotion audits.
  • Engineered a database-first execution pipeline logging exact token counts, latency (86ms P50), and fractional API costs before dispatching remote calls, ensuring crash-safe auditability.
  • Implemented a multi-objective evaluation engine utilizing Pareto Frontier analysis and the geometric knee-point heuristic to automatically recommend the optimal cost-vs-accuracy model configuration.
PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLReactDockerRedisLangChainGroq API
PROJECT 022024
PLATE IV — SCIENTIFIC ATLAS
LeafLens - BOTANICAL PATHOLOGY & CELLULAR LESION DETECTION

BOTANICAL PATHOLOGY & CELLULAR LESION DETECTION

ETCHED BOTANICAL LEAF PLATE · DIAGNOSTIC TICKS · 41 CROP CLASSES

LeafLens

Multilingual AI agricultural diagnostics platform detecting 41 distinct crop diseases.

  • Engineered a convolutional neural network (CNN) classifier achieving 98.4% test accuracy across 41 crop-disease categories.
  • Developed a localized mobile interface supporting 11 regional languages, ensuring accessibility for non-technical farmers.
  • Shipped real-time edge inference on mobile devices with local caching, bypassing connectivity bottlenecks in remote fields.
PythonTensorFlowReact NativeFastAPIAWS S3Google Translate API
PROJECT 032024
PLATE V — SCIENTIFIC ATLAS
LipSense - VISUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION & PHONETIC WAVE ARCS

VISUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION & PHONETIC WAVE ARCS

ETCHED LIP MOVEMENT OUTLINES · ACOUSTIC ARCS · 30FPS ROI MATRIX

LipSense

Deep learning visual speech recognition model translating lip movements to text.

  • Trained a spatio-temporal CNN coupled with Recurrent GRU layers, obtaining a 95.2% sentence-level transcription accuracy.
  • Reduced word error rate (WER) to 4.8% on target grid vocabulary benchmarks through custom visual landmark pre-processing.
  • Built an optimized pipeline extracting lips ROI at 30fps using lightweight face mesh trackers.
PythonPyTorchOpenCVGRU NetworksCTC LossFastAPI
PROJECT 042025
PLATE VI — SCIENTIFIC ATLAS
Facelogix - BIOMETRIC FACE LIVENESS & VECTOR EMBEDDING SEARCH

BIOMETRIC FACE LIVENESS & VECTOR EMBEDDING SEARCH

INSIGHTFACE EMBEDDINGS · REDIS VECTOR INDEX · LIVENESS ROI

Facelogix

High-performance facial authentication and security platform utilizing advanced facial embedding distance.

  • Built a secure local authentication gateway using FaceNet/InsightFace embeddings, reaching 99.2% verification accuracy.
  • Implemented a anti-spoofing mechanism utilizing texture analysis and eye-blink frequency detection to block static image bypasses.
  • Optimized facial verification latency to sub-200ms using Redis vector caches for local employee indices.
PythonPyTorchInsightFaceFastAPIRedisSQLite
PROJECT 052024
PLATE III — SCIENTIFIC ATLAS
OmniText - SEMANTIC TEXT INTELLIGENCE & TRANSFORMER NODES

SEMANTIC TEXT INTELLIGENCE & TRANSFORMER NODES

ETCHED OPEN BOOK · MAGNIFYING LENS · SEMANTIC NODE GRAPH

OmniText

Advanced NLP dashboard and text analysis toolkit running local transformer models.

  • Integrated lightweight BERT and RoBERTa models locally for zero-cost sentiment analysis, named entity recognition (NER), and text classification.
  • Created a highly efficient batch-processing pipeline for text summarization running on CPU instances.
  • Designed a clean editorial dashboard demonstrating multi-document comparisons and semantic overlap metrics.
PythonTransformersStreamlitHugging FaceNLTK
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FEATURED ACHIEVEMENTPROBLEM STATEMENT: PS SIH25164
NATIONAL WINNER — SMART INDIA HACKATHON 2025

SimAstra: Autonomous Swarm Defense Framework

Ministry of Defence / Bharat Electronics Limited (CRL) · Dec 2025

PLATE I — SCIENTIFIC ATLAS
SimAstra: Autonomous Swarm Defense Framework - SWARM DEFENSE & DECENTRALIZED FLIGHT TRAJECTORIES

SWARM DEFENSE & DECENTRALIZED FLIGHT TRAJECTORIES

ETCHED DRONE SWARM · TOPOGRAPHIC CONTOURS · COORD MATRIX
15 KGPayload Capacity
20+Autonomous Swarm Drones
98.4%Target Intercept Accuracy

As a member of Team Palantier, I contributed to the development of SimAstra, an autonomous swarm-defense framework created for Smart India Hackathon 2025 under Problem Statement SIH25164.

The project explored decentralized coordination for autonomous drone networks, enabling swarm agents to share information, coordinate defensive actions, and adapt to dynamic operational conditions.

CONTRIBUTIONS & OUTCOMES

  • Collaborated with Team Palantier to secure the National Winner title under Problem Statement SIH25164.
  • Contributed to the development and simulation of decentralized swarm-coordination and autonomous task-allocation approaches.
Provisional Patent in Process · Public Overview Only
Official SIH Portal
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ENGINEERING MINDSET

How I Learn & Build

I approach projects by understanding the problem, exploring the technology behind it, and turning ideas into practical solutions. I enjoy learning through experimentation, research, and hands-on development.

From AI and machine learning to intelligent systems and emerging technologies, I focus on building projects that strengthen my technical skills while solving meaningful problems.

Problem-First Thinking

I begin by understanding the problem, the users, and the purpose of the solution before selecting technologies or designing the implementation.

Learn by Building

I explore new concepts through research, experimentation, and hands-on projects, turning technical knowledge into practical experience.

Iterate & Improve

I treat every project as a learning process—testing ideas, identifying limitations, improving the implementation, and building better solutions over time.

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TIMELINEEXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

Education & Involvement

Academic credentials and community service milestones at the University of Mumbai.

B.E. in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning)

Nov 2022 – Jun 2026

Theem College of Engineering, University of Mumbai

  • CGPA: 8.22/10
  • Focus areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing, and Software Architecture

NSS Volunteer / Member

2024 – 2025

Theem College of Engineering NSS Unit

  • Organized community development programs, health camps, and environmental awareness drives
  • Worked in team environments to execute government-sponsored social welfare projects
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CAPABILITIES & CREDENTIALSSKILLS MATRIX

Capabilities & Credentials

Structured catalog of engineering skills, model families, cloud systems, and professional industry certifications.

Skills Inventory

Languages & Frameworks
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptReactNext.js (App Router)FastAPIPostgreSQLSQLAlchemyTailwind CSSDockerGit
GenAI & LLMs
LLMOpsRAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)LLM-as-a-Judge EvaluationPrompt EngineeringGroq APIHugging FaceLangChainVector Indexes
Data & Cloud Platforms
AWS CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformSQL & Database DesignDocker ComposeVercel deploymentsCI/CD Pipelines

Certifications

AWS Data Engineering

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

2025
Disaster Risk Monitoring with AI

NVIDIA

Jan 2025
AI Fundamentals & AI-Enabled Applications

IBM

2025
Google Cloud Skills Arcade

Google Cloud

Dec 2025
Green Skills & AI

Edunet / Microsoft

Mar 2025
Intro to ML & Feature Engineering

Kaggle

2024
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INITIATE CONTACTMUMBAI, INDIA

Let's discuss systems & models.

I am actively looking for AI Engineer, ML Engineer, or Python developer positions starting mid-2026. If you have an open role or want to discuss my work, drop me an email.

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