Hi, I’m Akbar.

Computer Engineer / AI and Systems Engineer

I build across AI systems, software infrastructure, and hardware.

My work spans governed agents, production platforms, applied machine learning, embedded systems, and digital design, with a focus on reliability, performance, and systems that hold up in practice.

Enterprise AI · AHEAD

across abstraction layers

selected systems

01 / governed ai

Governed Platform for Support (GPS)

Provider-agnostic infrastructure for secure, grounded support automation.

GPS separates model reasoning from execution through explicit system boundaries, giving organizations a way to use AI across support workflows without allowing model output to directly become authority.

runtime: Provider-agnostic agent orchestration
decisions: Typed contracts between reasoning and execution
control: Human approval for consequential actions
authorization: Deterministic tool permissions
state: Durable case and run history
auditability: Reconstructable end-to-end execution trails

Python · FastAPI · PostgreSQL/pgvector · RAG · LLM Orchestration

Independent system · private source

02 / platform engineering

Full-Stack MLS Property Platform

Real-time property search infrastructure built on live MLS data.

Led a six-person engineering team building a production property-search platform integrating live listing feeds, OAuth-secured APIs, automated synchronization, and normalized relational data.

data: 1,000+ active property listings
integration: Live MLS data through REST APIs and OAuth 2.0
infrastructure: Linux VPS deployment and automated synchronization
backend: Python, PHP, SQL/MySQL
leadership: Six-person software engineering team

Software development internship · IDX Exchange

03 / edge ai

Vision Mamba / Wildfire Detection

Computer-vision research spanning model development and hardware-aware inference.

modeling: PyTorch image-classification pipeline
result: +30% accuracy over baselines
leadership: Five-person research team
edge ai: Hardware-aware inference optimization
acceleration: hls4ml and FPGA-oriented workflows

PyTorch · Computer Vision · hls4ml · FPGA

Research internship · UIC Electrical & Computer Engineering

detection pipeline repo

04 / embedded systems

Bare-Metal Embedded Safety System

A deterministic sensing and control system built directly on ARM Cortex-M4F hardware.

timing: Timer Capture interrupt service routines
sensing: ADC sequencers and precision ranging
control: Memory-mapped PWM peripherals
execution: Non-blocking Wait-For-Interrupt architecture
target: ARM Cortex-M4F

C · ARM Assembly · Code Composer Studio · TM4C123

Coursework system · independently designed

github repo

05 / ml research

Quantitative ML Research Platform

Reproducible infrastructure for developing and validating machine-learning strategies on financial time-series data.

research: ML-driven strategy development
experimentation: Reproducible analysis pipelines
validation: Time-aware backtesting
safeguards: Look-ahead bias, survivorship bias, and leakage controls

Python · pandas · NumPy · Jupyter

Research internship · Crypt0nest (Tekly Studio) · private source

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experience

Enterprise AI Intern

May 2026 – Present · Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

AHEAD

Year-round role on AHEAD's Enterprise GPT team, with technical ownership of an AI skills and agent governance initiative spanning Glean and Claude, including a validated self-service model for creating, reviewing, and reusing skills across licensed users.

Authored the foundational architecture narrative for a proprietary agentic platform, cleared by the CTO as the internal source of truth for enablement and stakeholder approval.

AI Safety Evaluator / Red Team Prompt Engineer

Apr 2026 – Aug 2026 · Remote

LinkedIn (Contract)

Adversarial prompting and structured safety evaluations of frontier LLMs, characterizing failure modes across reasoning, coding, and instruction following.

AI-EDGE REU Fellow

Jun 2026 – Jul 2026 · Mentor-paired REU

NSF AI-EDGE Institute, The Ohio State University

Advanced study across LLMs, generative models, AI security, and distributed AI, with applied work in Vision Transformers, agent security, and multi-agent systems.

AI Systems Engineer

Oct 2025 – Mar 2026 · Remote

Talent Strategy Experts

Architected and shipped the MVP of a multi-tenant SaaS platform for AI inference, owning the full stack, deployment, isolation boundaries, and role-based access control.

Deep Learning / AI Research Intern

Jun 2024 – Aug 2024 · Chicago, IL

UIC Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Led five interns building a PyTorch image-classification pipeline that reached 30% higher accuracy than baselines, and completed hardware/software co-design training with hls4ml.

B.S. Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago · May 2027
Minor in Mathematics · specializations in Computer and Networked Systems, Data Science and Engineering, and Digital Systems and VLSI (tracks)

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