BILAL ZAHID
Full-stack Engineer | LLM Expertise
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Summary
Full-stack engineer with 5+ years designing Python & JavaScript products that serve millions of users. Highlights include trimming AWS spend
25%, doubling release velocity with containerized CI/CD, and boosting engagement 18% through LLM-powered features. Adept at translating
business goals into robust, test-driven solutions while coaching teams toward delivery excellence.
Experience
Turing
https://www.turing.com/
FullStack LLM Engineer & Tech Lead
06/2024 - Present
• Curated and fine-tuned LLMs: produced code-centric datasets, then ran SFT + RLHF cycles for Gemini, Claude, Grok, and ServiceNow
AI, raising contextual accuracy 18%.
• Automated model testing: built a multi-language harness that cut production defects 20% and plugged directly into CI pipelines.
• Led a six-person team: set sprint goals, reviewed code, and shipped datasets on schedule.
• Reduced inference latency 45 ms by refining prompts and training pipelines alongside research scientists.
• Stack: Python · React · Next.js · Django · FastAPI · Ruby on Rails · TensorFlow · PyTorch · Hugging Face · AWS · Docker · SQL · Pine
cone · Prompt engineering.
Sphere
https://www.getsphere.com/
Senior FullStack Engineer
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09/2022 - 09/2024
Deployed AI agents on Salesforce & HubSpot that auto-populate CRM fields, lifting sales-team productivity 30%.
Architected a serverless platform that automated sales workflows, boosting operational efficiency 250%.
Linked NLP workflows with GTM systems, improving data accuracy and close-rate 150%.
Shipped React/Next.js dashboards and a Chrome extension, cutting rep task time 200%.
Eliminated critical bugs 20% and raised maintainability 15%; tuned PostgreSQL, Pine cone, and MongoDB to curb query latency.
Key stack: Python (FastAPI) · React · Next.js · TypeScript · OpenAI · AWS · Salesforce · Webflow.
Duett.io
http://duett.io/
Software Engineer
01/2021 - 08/2022
• Launched the DUETT Health Care platform, connecting care coordinators with home-health providers and improving service delivery
across Central Indiana.
• Introduced features that lifted sales 15% and cut bounce rate 25% on a React + Django stack.
• Embedded machine-learning models that raised predictive match accuracy 20%.
• Scaled the back end on AWS to handle 10,000 requests per minute while reducing API latency 25%.
• Tools: Python (Django) · React · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · AWS · Jenkins · Grafana.
JoinReflect
https://www.joinreflect.com/
Associate Software Engineer
03/2020 - 01/2021
• Developed “Reflect,” a mental-wellness platform that pairs patients with therapists via a custom matching algorithm, increasing
match accuracy 30%.
• Built a Django-based calendar microservice that eliminated scheduling conflicts 40%.
• Scaled infrastructure to 10,000 requests per minute on AWS and cut data-retrieval time 25%.
• Technologies: Python (Django) · React · AWS (EC2, Lambda, RDS) · MongoDB · PostgreSQL · Mail gun.
Skills
Languages: Python JavaScript TypeScript SQL GraphQL HTML5 CSS3 Next.js React.js
Tools & Technologies:
Agile Apache JMeter API Design API Gateway (AWS) AWS Bootstrap CDN CircleCI CloudWatch Datadog Django Docker EC2
Elasticsearch Figma GCP GitHub Grafana Heroku HIPAA Compliance Jenkins Jest jQuery Kubernetes MongoDB NLP NoSQL
OWASP PostgreSQL Amplitude AWS Lambda CRM (Salesforce HubSpot) Chrome DevTools Material UI (MUI)
Education
FAST-NUCES (National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences)
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Lahore, Pakistan
08/2016 - 05/2020
