Muhammad Ammad

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Over a decade of experience building scalable data pipelines, orchestrating workflows across AWS and GCP, and implementing automated, observable, and resilient data systems. Currently architecting and deploying cutting-edge agentic AI solutions.

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Career

Work Experience

Staff Software and Data Engineer

06/2024 – present

Basis Set Builders

Remote

Designed and deployed Agentic AI workflows using OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, BoundryML, Parasail, and MCP — automating complex jobs such as data scraping, multi-step reasoning, and deep research.
Prototyped and released custom LLM agents for sentiment analysis, document classification, and structured data extraction.
Developed scalable RAG pipelines integrating LangChain, pgvector, and OpenAI/HuggingFace models, enabling grounded real-time QA and summarisation systems.
Built agent monitoring and observability pipelines using Prometheus, OpenAI logging, BoundryML tracing, and LLM evals via Langfuse.
Migrated deployments to Kubernetes, Terraform, ELK, and Grafana.
Evaluated emerging AI tools and integrated best-fit solutions per requirements.
Mentored junior engineers on AI tooling, architecture patterns, and secure deployment practices.

Senior Software and Data Engineer

07/2019 – 06/2024

Basis Set Builders

Remote

Developed microservices and internal platforms using Python, Django, Flask, FastAPI, React, Next.js, and GraphQL.
Built robust ETL/ELT pipelines and data scraping systems using Airflow, Selenium, BeautifulSoup, Glue, MSK, EMR, Kinesis, Spark, and Pandas.
Created a quantitative sourcing engine to filter and rank people/companies using AI and statistical methods.
Delivered scalable, secure systems on AWS: EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, SQS, SNS, Step Functions, DynamoDB, Fargate, and API Gateway.
Implemented infrastructure as code with Terraform; set up CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
Integrated observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, and CloudWatch for full-stack logging, monitoring, and alerting.
Led code reviews, architecture discussions, and design evaluations; mentored junior developers across functional teams.

Senior Software Engineer | Team Lead

09/2018 – 08/2019

Arbisoft (Pvt) Ltd

Lahore — Data Engineer for Wanderu.com

Designed and developed multiple ETL tasks for data warehousing.
Developed data instrumentation strategies using InfluxDB and Grafana.
Built pipeline to ingest Cloudflare logs and Snowplow event logs.
Designed fact and dimensional tables in Redshift and Postgres.
Developed deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and AWS EC2.

Senior Software Engineer | API Team Lead

03/2017 – 09/2018

Imzee Consulting (Pvt) Ltd — Zameen.com

Lahore

Designed, developed, and maintained APIs powering zameen.com, bayut.com, and bproperty.com web and mobile products.
Built and integrated automated API test scripts with CI pipelines.
Gradually revamped the legacy codebase to a newer technology stack.
Mentored and trained engineers in PHP, Algolia, Python, MySQL, and Git.

Analyst Software Engineer | Switch Interface Engineer

06/2014 – 03/2017

Afiniti

Lahore

Designed, developed, and maintained Switch Interface code integrating with Aspect UIP, Asterisk Call Center, Genesys Call Center, and Genesys Orchestration Server (using Genesys Platform SDK).
Built an AspectUIP Switch Simulator application for high-volume call testing scenarios.
Tech stack: C#, JavaScript, .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio, TFS.

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