Based in Malaysia · Remote
AI engineer & software developer
I build LLM applications, retrieval systems, and workflow automation. I bring over a decade of experience shipping full-stack software for U.S. teams.
01 / Selected work
Cedarvale AI Labs · Professional work
Built a knowledge assistant that searches support articles with access controls and cites its sources. In a 40-user pilot, average document lookup time fell from 12 to 4 minutes.
Retrieval recall@5
72% to 87%
Measured with a 300-question regression set after filtering and chunking experiments.
Personal prototype
A tool-calling agent that finds support guidance and drafts ticket updates. It validates output with Pydantic, requires human approval before writing changes, and includes a 100-case evaluation suite.
Personal project
A task board with role-based access, activity logs, and live WebSocket updates. Includes Playwright workflow tests and Docker packaging for repeatable deployment.
02 / Career
Jan 2023 – Present
Cedarvale AI Labs
Built ingestion, chunking, and embedding jobs for 25,000 support articles. Deployed Docker services on AWS and lowered inference cost per request by 28% through caching and model routing.
Jan 2021 – Dec 2022
Pinecrest Cloud Software
Owned React features and Node.js APIs for a SaaS product with 8,000 monthly active users. Cut p95 API latency from 850 ms to 320 ms and deployment preparation from 90 to 20 minutes.
Jan 2019 – Dec 2020
Harborstone Commerce
Built storefronts and services for a platform processing 15,000 orders per month. Reduced duplicate order incidents by 70% over two quarters through payment and inventory integration improvements.
Jan 2016 – Dec 2018
Summitpath Digital
Replaced spreadsheet workflows with Django applications for a 30-person operations team. Automated weekly reporting, saving approximately eight staff hours per week.
Jul 2014 – Dec 2015
Maplebridge Web Solutions
Built responsive sites, forms, and dashboards. Improved average page load time from 4.6 to 2.8 seconds in repeatable browser tests.
03 / Skills & credentials
LLM APIs, RAG, embeddings, vector search, LangChain, LangGraph
Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, FastAPI, Django, React, Node.js, REST APIs
PostgreSQL, pgvector, Redis, MySQL, AWS, Docker
pytest, Jest, Playwright, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, observability
Nur Afazan