Johor Bahru, Malaysia → Remote everywhere /// AI · ML · Full-Stack · Mobile

Arnob Rizwan Ahmad.

Final-year Software Engineering student at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia who doesn't wait for graduation to ship. ML Engineer for a US news-intelligence platform, Founding Backend Engineer at an AI storage startup, and full-stack developer for clients in the US, Luxembourg, and Bangladesh. I build LLM-powered agents that actually make it to production.

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Experience

Five roles, four time zones, zero finished degrees required. All while studying full-time.

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Application Developer

Moien Delivery — Luxembourg 🇱🇺
Mar 2026 — Present · Remote
  • Building a cross-platform delivery app (React Native + Nuxt.js backend) serving three user roles: customers, restaurants, and drivers.
  • Real-time order tracking, driver dispatch, and delivery workflows over REST APIs and WebSocket event streams.
  • Owning features from spec → QA → production on weekly release cycles with international stakeholders.
React NativeNuxt.jsWebSocketsLogistics
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Machine Learning Engineer

AI News HUD (via Mercor) — USA 🇺🇸
Oct 2025 — Mar 2026 · Remote Contract
  • Built and evaluated production PyTorch models for real-time news classification, summarization, and personalized recommendations.
  • Designed evaluation pipelines and ran iterative experiments improving accuracy and inference latency on live traffic.
  • Took ML components from prototype to deployed feature in the platform's core intelligence layer.
PyTorchEval PipelinesNLPProduction ML
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Founding Backend Engineer

Framic — Remote
Aug 2025 — Present
  • First backend hire on an AI-powered storage app — owning architecture decisions and core API design from scratch.
  • Leading AI search, real-time indexing, and scalable gallery/drive systems.
  • Working directly with founders to ship fast while keeping the system maintainable as the team scales.
System DesignAI SearchAPIs0→1
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Software Engineer (Freelance)

MOMS Mobile Oil Change — USA 🇺🇸
Apr 2026 — Present · Remote
  • Redesigned site header/navigation (active routes, hover dropdowns, CTA) and rebuilt three product pages for a live Next.js business site.
  • Led SEO overhaul: dynamic sitemaps, 301 redirects for legacy URLs, and dynamic routing under /locations/[city].
  • Conducted site-wide security and dependency audits, and resolved production-build breakages.
Next.jsReactTypeScriptSEO
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Software Engineering Resident

Headstarter — USA 🇺🇸
Sep 2024 — Mar 2025 · Remote
  • Selected for a competitive 6-month US engineering residency; shipped 14+ ML and full-stack projects in Python and TypeScript.
  • Designed and trained 5 neural networks using LLM chaining, hyperparameter tuning, and fine-tuning.
  • Built LLM-powered agents on AWS Bedrock / OpenAI APIs and optimized Docker CI/CD on GitHub Actions, cutting image size and build times.
Neural NetsAWS BedrockCI/CD14+ Projects
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Projects

47 projects pulled from 93 repos, audited at the code level — AI, agents, mobile, and full-stack. From production systems serving real users to the early builds that started it all.

System Design · MLOps · 🔒 Private

MentorMind

ML-powered EdTech platform built as a full system-design showcase — nginx load-balancing two Django APIs, Postgres streaming read-replica with a custom DB router, Redis leaderboards, Celery queues, and a DVC-tracked MLOps loop with OpenCV proctoring, k6 load tests, and Kubernetes manifests with autoscaling.

DjangoKubernetesDVC MLOps
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Data Engineering · 🔒 Private

CivicPulse

Civic-data pipeline pulling air quality (OpenAQ/WAQI), GTFS transit, and government notices into one schema — union-find dedupe across sources, weighted severity/proximity/recency ranking, and plain-language LLM summaries cached in Redis. 1,200+ lines of tests with CI.

PythonNext.jsPostgres
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AutoML · Agents

Autonomous ML Agent

An LLM planner proposes modeling strategies under a time budget, Optuna tunes XGBoost/LightGBM/sklearn, ensembles get built, and SHAP explains the winner — shipped with model cards, a FastAPI inference service, 5 pytest suites, and CI/CD pushing to Docker Hub.

OptunaSHAPCI/CD
Social Impact · APK Shipped

ZeroWaste Hub

Food-rescue app for Malaysia connecting donors, recipients, and volunteer riders — Gemini vision grades dish quality and halal status, an on-device TFLite classifier caches its own model, Checkout.com/TNG eWallet payments, and four languages. Release APK on GitHub.

FlutterGemini VisionTFLite
NASA Data · 369 Files

EcoSphere Farming Sim

React Native farming simulator running on live NASA satellite data — SMAP soil moisture, MODIS NDVI, and IMERG rainfall feed a RandomForest forecaster, while Gemini-powered NPC tutors generate and grade farming questions. Campaign and sandbox game modes included.

NASA APIsExpoTensorFlow
Construction Tech · 🔒 Private

Qawel

WhatsApp-style construction project management on proper clean architecture (Riverpod, feature/domain layers) — project chat with voice notes, daily progress reports rendered to PDF server-side, and Google Cloud Translation across English, Arabic, and Urdu with full RTL support.

FlutterCloud FunctionsEN/AR/UR
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Local Commerce · 🔒 Private

ShopLocalr

Local-business discovery platform with customer, business, and admin roles — QR deal redemption with checkout PINs, a Local Impact Score leaderboard, Gemini-backed recommendations, and offline-first Hive caching. 33,000 lines of Dart shipped for a freelance client.

FlutterGeminiGoogle Maps
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Agents · DevTools

Terminal Coding Agent

Pip-installable CLI agent that plans edits via OpenAI/Anthropic, applies them through a 400-line diff manager, and executes inside E2B Firecracker microVMs — with guardrails that scan for six secret types (AWS, GitHub, Slack keys) and five pytest suites.

PythonE2B SandboxGuardrails
LLM Evals · Infra

Self-Improving Prompt API

CI/CD for prompts — a semver-versioned registry where each improvement cycle runs failure analysis, generates candidates, A/B-evaluates them with a blinded LLM judge, and auto-promotes winners per YAML rules. Multi-dimensional scoring across OpenAI and Anthropic providers.

FastAPILLM JudgeEvals
Mental Health · 🔒 Private

Sushthotha

Bilingual (English/বাংলা) mental-wellness platform for Bangladeshi youth — a 577-line context-aware engine scores micro-interventions against mood, time of day, and screen time, alongside buddy circles and crisis-support flows. Multi-stage Docker deploy to Cloud Run.

React 19GeminiCloud Run
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AgTech · 🔒 Private

Agritech Platform

Rice supply-chain platform for Bangladesh — five marketplace roles over a 24-model Prisma schema with JWT-authenticated Socket.IO messaging, and an sklearn/XGBoost ensemble trained on district-level BORO/AMAN/AUS yield data feeding a full profit simulator.

XGBoostPrismaSocket.IO
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.NET × React · 🔒 Private

Savora RMS

Restaurant management system on ASP.NET Core (.NET 10) + React 19 — POS with modifier-aware cart logic, kitchen display, inventory, and reservations across 12 pages. Every KPI (revenue, food/labor cost, channel mix) computed server-side from SQL Server, nothing hardcoded.

ASP.NET CoreReact 19SQL Server
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Local LLM · RAG · 🔒 Private

ScholarMind

Academic research assistant that runs fully local — FAISS RAG over uploaded PDFs with Llama 3 via Ollama (Groq fallback chains), three-stage PDF extraction down to Tesseract OCR, a hand-rolled citation engine in four formats, plus AI flashcards and mind maps.

Llama 3FAISSRAG
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Multimodal AI

Video Analysis System

Chat with any YouTube video — transcripts and OpenCV-extracted frames embedded for combined semantic + visual search, every answer cited with clickable timestamps. JWT auth, per-user rate limiting, seven pytest suites, and Docker Compose with healthchecks.

GeminiFastAPIOpenCV
Multi-Agent · AWS

CrisisCohort

Climate-resilience platform for smallholder farmers — a fleet of 10+ specialized AWS Bedrock agents (water optimization, climate migration, grant matching, disease diagnostics) on 15,000+ lines of Lambda, plus an on-chain water-rights trading contract in Solidity.

BedrockLambdaSolidity
Client Work · 40 Schools

School Care App

School management suite adopted by 40 schools across Sylhet, Bangladesh — a parent/teacher React Native app, a Vite + Tailwind admin dashboard, and Cloud Functions fanning out role-targeted FCM push by school, role, and class. Heading to Google Play.

React NativeFCMFirebase
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Contributor · Live In Production 🟢 🇺🇸

MOMS Mobile Oil Change®

Contributor on the production Next.js site for a US mobile oil change & fleet maintenance business — redesigned the header/nav, overhauled SEO with a dynamic sitemap and 301 consolidation onto /locations/[city] routes, and ran a site-wide security and code-quality audit. Live at momsoilchange.com.

Next.jsSEOTypeScript
Live In Production 🟢

PhotoniX Research

Production website for a photonics research group — eight public pages plus a nine-screen JWT-protected admin CMS managing publications, projects, team, news, and recruitment applications with CV uploads. Live right now at photonixresearch.com.

ReactExpressMySQL
Real-Time CV · 🔒 Private

Hack2Drive Controller

Autonomous racing controller for a Unity sim — a 5-task rate-monotonic schedule (5–25 ms periods) with deadline-miss instrumentation, custom OpenCV token detection with curve-aware lane geometry, and a YOLOv8 pipeline trained on an auto-labeled synthetic dataset.

OpenCVYOLOv8RTOS Model
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Travel Tech · ★ 2

Ticket-Treak

Flight-booking app with live Amadeus flight-offer search behind a full OAuth token flow, Stripe payments, seat maps, and add-on upsells — plus an admin suite handling flights, bookings, refunds, and analytics across 27,000 lines of Dart.

FlutterAmadeus APIStripe
HealthTech · v1.0 · 🔒 Private

VitalTrack Pro

Hospital-grade health monitor in Flutter + Laravel — Apple Health / Health Connect sync, vitals with 7-day trends, USDA + barcode food logging, RxNorm medication reminders, and branded PDF health reports. A separate doctor app gets live patient vitals with server-side threshold alerts.

FlutterLaravelHealth Sync
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ERP · Laravel · 🔒 Private

School Management ERP

Production-ready school ERP on Laravel 13 + Filament 5 — the full chain works end-to-end: admission (with lottery) → attendance → invoicing → marks → tabulated results → report-card PDFs, plus payslips, ID cards, and a CMS-driven public website. Pest-tested, permission-driven roles throughout.

Laravel 13Filament 5Pest
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Distributed Systems · 16 Services

AI-HUD News Pipeline

News aggregation rebuilt as 16 microservices — ingestion through LSH near-duplicate detection, learning-to-rank scoring, LLM summarization, safety filtering, and full observability. A systems-design exercise in keeping that many moving parts coherent.

PythonMicroservicesLTR
Agents · Voice

Voice Browser Agent

Talk to your browser — Deepgram streams speech to text, GPT-4o parses it into structured intents, and Stagehand executes them on real pages through Browserbase. Say "find me flights to Tokyo" and watch the browser do it.

DeepgramGPT-4oStagehand
Industrial CV · MLOps

NexusVision MLOps

Smart-factory visual inspection dashboard — Django REST + React TypeScript with live defect-detection simulation, a model registry tracking versions and metrics, and defect heatmaps across the production line.

Django RESTReact TSModel Registry
FinTech · Local LLM

Stocktrade

AI-powered stock social platform — a local LLM scores sentiment on user theses, reputation-weighted consensus surfaces the credible calls, and live Yahoo Finance data keeps every position priced in real time.

TypeScriptLocal LLMYahoo Finance
LLM Infra · Routing

LLM Router

Cost / latency / quality-aware LLM router on Next.js — NotDiamond picks the best model per request with a heuristic fallback chain across 5 providers, backed by continuous provider health checks.

Next.jsNotDiamond5 Providers
Healthcare · Accessibility

MediSign AI

Healthcare accessibility app in Flutter — communication tools for patients who can't speak or hear easily, a Gemini-powered medical chat, and telemedicine flows, all on a Firebase backend.

FlutterGeminiFirebase
Urban AI · Kuala Lumpur

Cityscape AI

AI urban-planning app for Kuala Lumpur — graph neural network and reinforcement-learning traffic models behind a Flutter/Firebase frontend, with a Gemini RAG chatbot answering city-planning questions over local data.

GNN · RLFlutterGemini RAG
Media · Bangla-First · 🔒 Private

সংবাদ News Portal

Prothom Alo-class Bangladesh news platform designed read-heavy and Bangla-first — Django 5 + DRF with Celery, Elasticsearch search, and Redis caching behind nginx, fronted by a Next.js 15 App Router UI. Full architecture rationale documented, Docker Compose throughout.

Django 5Next.js 15Elasticsearch
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FinTech · 🔒 Private

Rubicon Liberty Group

Institutional-grade digital-asset platform on Next.js 15 — a live crypto markets terminal with sortable tables and 7-day sparklines off a cached CoinGecko proxy, JWT sessions in httpOnly cookies, and a protected dashboard valuing user portfolios at live prices on Neon Postgres.

Next.js 15JWTNeon Postgres
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Road Safety · APK Shipped · 🔒 Private

SafeCurve

Interactive Three.js driving simulation backing a road-safety thesis — respondents experience a blind-curve scenario, react to LED + buzzer warning levels, and rate the system, generating real user-acceptance data. Packaged with Capacitor into a fully offline 4 MB Android APK.

Three.jsCapacitorAndroid
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HR Tech · DHL-Inspired

MomentumHR

Intelligent leave-logistics platform in Flutter + Firebase — separate HR and employee dashboards, bulk onboarding via Excel import, and a Gemini-powered chatbot that answers leave-policy questions so HR doesn't have to.

FlutterFirebaseGemini
Semiconductors · Analytics

Chip Performance Platform

Semiconductor analytics platform — FastAPI backend simulating real-time chip telemetry with a Streamlit dashboard on top, and an ML model predicting chip failures before they happen.

FastAPIStreamlitML Prediction
Generative · Just For Fun

mood2melody

Tell it how you feel, get a song back — sentiment analysis reads your mood, GPT writes the lyrics, music21 composes the MIDI, and Bark sings it. A Flask app built purely because it was a fun pipeline to wire up.

Flaskmusic21Bark
Client Work · 🇪🇸 Estepona · 🔒 Private

Pizza Lab

Landing page and admin panel for a real pizzeria in Estepona, Spain — colours and menu lifted from the printed menu, with a no-code admin CMS where the owner edits text, menu items, hours, and photos and the site updates instantly.

Node.jsExpressCMS
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In-Browser AI · WASM

AI Art Studio

Neural style transfer running entirely in the browser via WebAssembly — five styles from Van Gogh to Studio Ghibli, adjustable intensity, and a live webcam mode that turns your camera feed into art in real time. Offline after first load; photos never leave the device.

WebAssemblyNext.jsOn-Device AI
Telecom Infra · DevOps

Jasmin SMS Gateway

Local development setup for the open-source Jasmin SMS gateway — deploy scripts that bring the whole stack up reproducibly, with a bundled Py4web admin GUI for managing connectors and routes.

PythonJasminPy4web
Classic ML · Notebook

Customer Churn Prediction

End-to-end churn prediction in Jupyter — exploratory analysis, feature engineering, and model comparison on customer data to flag who's about to leave before they do.

Pythonscikit-learnJupyter
Food Delivery

FOOD App

Food ordering app with a React + TypeScript + Vite client and a separate server — browsing, cart, and order flows split cleanly across a client/server architecture.

ReactTypeScriptVite
Frontend · Nuxt

Gaming Landing Page

Animated gaming landing page built on Nuxt and Vue — a pure frontend craft exercise in hero sections, motion, and dark gaming aesthetics.

NuxtVueCSS
Uni Project · Java

TVPSS Management System

Management system for Malaysia's school TV studio program (TV Pusat Sumber Sekolah) — Java web app handling school studio registration, equipment, and achievement tracking. Built as UTM coursework.

JavaJSPMVC
Early Work · PHP

Leave Management System

PHP leave management system — employee leave requests, approvals, and balance tracking with an admin panel. One of the early full-stack builds that started it all.

PHPMySQLAdmin Panel
Early Work · Java

Bus Ticket Management

Java bus ticketing system — route and schedule management, seat booking, and ticket issuing. Early OOP-era work, kept here because everyone starts somewhere.

JavaOOPDesktop
API Design

IntelliNote

Note-taking API on FastAPI + PostgreSQL — JWT-authenticated CRUD with AI-powered note summarization baked into the endpoints.

FastAPIPostgreSQLJWT
RAG · Documents

Document Chatbot

FastAPI RAG chatbot — upload PDFs, ask questions, get cited answers. FAISS handles the vector search, the HuggingFace Inference API handles the generation.

FastAPIFAISSHuggingFace
GenAI · Headstarter Era

Pentragram

Real-time image diffusion experiment from the Headstarter residency — an Instagram-style feed where images are generated from text prompts as you type. Code lands in the repo soon.

DiffusionGenAIHeadstarter
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The Stack

Tools I reach for when something needs to exist by Friday.

// AI & ML

  • PyTorch · scikit-learn
  • XGBoost · LightGBM · Optuna
  • AWS Bedrock · Gemini
  • RAG — FAISS · pgvector
  • Local LLMs — Ollama · Llama 3
  • LLM judges · evals · SHAP

// Backend

  • FastAPI · Flask
  • Django + DRF · Celery
  • Node.js · Express · Nuxt.js
  • ASP.NET Core (.NET 10)
  • REST · WebSockets · Socket.IO
  • Prisma · SQLAlchemy · EF Core

// Frontend & Mobile

  • React · Next.js · React 19
  • React Native (Expo)
  • Flutter — Riverpod · Provider
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS · Three.js
  • i18n — EN · BN · AR · UR · MS

// Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS — Lambda · Bedrock · DynamoDB · Cognito
  • GCP — Cloud Run · Firebase
  • Docker · Kubernetes
  • GitHub Actions CI/CD
  • Redis · Prometheus · Grafana
  • PostgreSQL · MySQL · SQL Server · Firestore
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Receipts

Education, certifications, and the program that started it all.

Education

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Bachelor of Software Engineering — Johor Bahru. Expected July 2026.

Certification · Mar 2025

AWS — SageMaker, LLMs & Prompt Engineering

Amazon SageMaker, Large Language Models, and Prompt Engineering certifications.

Certification · Jun 2024

Microsoft Azure AI

Azure OpenAI Service, Natural Language Processing, and Document Intelligence.

Achievement

Headstarter SWE Resident

Selected for a competitive 6-month US-based engineering residency — shipped 14+ ML and full-stack projects.