Ibrar Yunus-Full-Stack AI Engineer · Research · Development · Deployment
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Experience
Contract Full-Stack AI Engineer & Data Scientist
Independent Contractor — sole trader (multiple clients)
- Loredana — AI Coaching SaaS: architected a full-stack Next.js + Firebase platform; built "Sage Journal" with Gemini for sentiment-aware coaching feedback, real-time Recharts dashboards (6-pillar resilience radar, somatic body mapping), and role-based Firestore auth.
- Telleosis / MyJamb — EdTech AI Tutor: engineered a FastAPI backend on Cloud Run with a RAG pipeline over BigQuery Vector Search (cosine distance) to retrieve lesson contexts; designed SQL gamification for leaderboards and randomised exam generation.
- Kotchakorn — Language-Learning AI: interactive Thai-learning app in Python Shiny + BigQuery with Gemini 2.5 Flash streaming proficiency-tuned lessons; automated PDF and flashcard generation.
Lead Data Scientist
Gifttid Ltd.
- Architected and shipped the complete GenAI platform — GCP infrastructure, CI/CD for Machine Learning, containerised deployments (Docker / Kubernetes), monitoring, access controls, chatbots, vector databases, and analytics dashboards.
- Partnered with the CEO on strategic AI direction; identified market gaps and shipped SME-focused tooling that positioned Gifttid as a leading AI-driven SME platform.
- Built in a small core team alongside a former Google Ads engineering lead and an MIT PhD product lead, driving development through close technical debate as an equal contributor.
Data Scientist & Software Engineer
The Hut Group (THG)
- Built production GPT chatbots grounded to company data with hallucination prevention, moderation guardrails, RAG, and chain-of-thought / tree-of-thought prompting (LangChain, NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails).
- Shipped multi-modal vision-language outfit recommendation chatbots using InstructBLIP and GPT models on Azure; deployed AI projects serving 7M+ monthly users.
- Built topic detection and sentiment-analysis pipelines using guided LDA, RoBERTa, BERT and DistilBERT; integrated Machine Learning services into production APIs and backend systems.
- Featured at THG Ingenuity Future of Commerce 2023 Industry Innovators Conference; trained and project-led other data scientists.
Research Internships & Final-Year Project
University of St Andrews · Trinity College Dublin · Maynooth University · Augary (US) · DFKI (Germany)
- Machine Learning on 2,500 Full-HD videos (12-node cluster) for video-encoding optimisation; ROS/TurtleBot 3D room-change detection extending MIT's Kintinuous SLAM; real-time on-device lane detection (patent-pending, IEEE-published); spatial 5.1 audio research with Google and SFI Ireland.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Retail, and Education.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence, Research and Development, and Strategy.
Summary
British Full-Stack AI Engineer building production-ready AI products end-to-end. From RAG pipelines and LLM grounding to scalable Next.js + Cloud Run deployments — I take research to revenue. Approximately 10 years across enterprise (THG, Gifttid), independent contracting and research roles; deployed AI serving 7M+ monthly users.
Skills
- Ai / Machine Learning: Llms, Rag, Generative Ai, Machine Learning, Nlp, Computer Vision, Multi-Modal, Fine-Tuning, Prompt Engineering, Embeddings, Vector Search, Sentiment Analysis, Topic Modelling, Recommendation Systems, Classical Ml, Time-Series Forecasting, Mlops, A/B Testing
- Models: Gpt-4/5, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Bert, Roberta, Distilbert, Blip-2, Instructblip, X-Clip, Clip
- Programming Languages: Python, Typescript, Javascript, Sql, Rust, C++, C, Go, Java, Bash, Html / Css
- Frameworks & Libraries: Next.Js, React, Node.Js, Tailwind Css, Fastapi, Flask, Tauri, Shiny, Langchain, Langgraph, Llamaindex, Hugging Face, Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit-Learn, Transformers, Spacy, Nltk, Gensim, Pandas, Numpy
- Cloud & Devops: Gcp (Cloud Run, Bigquery, Vertex Ai, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Iam), Firebase, Firestore, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Ci/Cd, Github Actions, Linux, Git, Rest, Grpc, Openapi, Microservices, Serverless
- Llm Tooling: Openai, Anthropic Claude, Google Ai, Hugging Face, Langchain, Langgraph, Llamaindex, Nemo-Guardrails, Dialogflow, Bigquery Vector Search, Pinecone, Chroma, Onnx, Ollama
- Data & Analytics: Bigquery, Postgresql, Mysql, Etl, Data Warehousing, Recharts, Plotly, Streamlit
Languages
Education
University of St Andrews
MSc Dependable Software Systems · Dependable Software Systems · United Kingdom · Distinction
Maynooth University
MSc Dependable Software Systems · Dependable Software Systems · Distinction
NUST - School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
BSc Computer Science · Computer Science · Islamabad, Pakistan
Certifications & licenses
Advanced SQL for Data Science: Time Series
Advanced SQL for Data Scientists
LinkedIn Learning
Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Multi-GPUs
NVIDIA
Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Coursera
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Ibrar is based in Shinjuku City, Japan and prefers 100% remote projects.
Ibrar speaks the following languages: English (Native), Urdu (Advanced), Thai (Intermediate), Japanese (Elementary), Chinese (Elementary).
Ibrar has at least 12 years of experience. During this time, Ibrar has worked in at least 4 different roles and for 4 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 3 years and 11 months. Note that Ibrar may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Ibrar would be well-suited for roles such as: Contract Full-Stack AI Engineer & Data Scientist, Lead Data Scientist, Data Scientist & Software Engineer.
Ibrar's most recent position is Contract Full-Stack AI Engineer & Data Scientist at Independent Contractor — sole trader (multiple clients).
In recent years, Ibrar has worked for Independent Contractor — sole trader (multiple clients), Gifttid Ltd., and The Hut Group (THG).
Ibrar is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Retail, and Education.
Ibrar is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Business Intelligence. Ibrar also has some experience in Research and Development and Strategy.
Ibrar has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Retail, and Education.
Ibrar has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Business Intelligence.
Ibrar holds a Master in Dependable Software Systems from University of St Andrews, a Master in Dependable Software Systems from Maynooth University and a Bachelor in Computer Science from NUST - School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.
Ibrar has 4 certificates. Among them, these include: Advanced SQL for Data Science: Time Series, Advanced SQL for Data Scientists, and Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Multi-GPUs.
Ibrar is immediately available part-time for suitable projects.
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