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Fareez Ahmed

Senior Full Stack AI Engineer building production AI systems end to end.

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Ten years building web applications and backend services, most recently production LLM systems, evals, and data pipelines. Spent the summer building writing-quality evals for OpenAI and released the grading rubric as open-source tooling. Before that, cut article validation time at Mayo Clinic by 94 percent and stood up an agent platform at Signet Jewelers in three months. Core stack: React, Python, Node.js, and AWS.

Selected AI Platform Impact

Writing-Quality & Presentation Evals

OpenAI (via Mercor)

  • Expert evaluator on OpenAI's Feather platform, building evals that detect AI slop in model-generated business writing and presentation decks.
  • Scored 60+ deliverables on a calibrated 1 to 7 rubric covering writing quality, organization and storytelling, comprehensiveness, and groundedness, each with a written rationale that held up under reviewer audit.
  • Rebuilt the evaluation workflow as a pipeline: deterministic audit scripts, ranking-spread and phrase-uniqueness checks, and two fresh-context model judges before every submission.

AEM Content Validator

Mayo Clinic

  • Architected a production LangGraph workflow with 5 parallel agents and a zero-cost triage router to avoid unnecessary LLM calls.
  • Reduced article validation time by 94%, from roughly 2 hours to under 10 minutes per document.
  • Loaded 34 validation rules from Neo4j Aura with JSON fallback for resilient, zero-downtime rule delivery.
  • Built a grounded-accuracy retrieval flow on PGVector and validated faithfulness and recall with RAGAS before rollout.
  • Shipped a Next.js review dashboard with SSE streaming and human approval gates using LangGraph interrupt().

AI Foundry Platform

Signet Jewelers

  • Delivered an enterprise AI platform in 3 months across a React agent studio, AWS CDK infrastructure, and a RAG-powered AI hub.
  • Engineered Bedrock and AgentCore streaming chat with a custom Vercel AI SDK provider and SSE heartbeat keep-alives.
  • Eliminated CloudFront timeout failures by redesigning memory reconciliation and message queuing for long-running responses.
  • Shipped MCP server and model catalog for self-serve agent onboarding, governance, and per-agent spend tracking.
  • Designed a 3-agent copilot system for orchestration, planning, and QA that reduced PR review cycles from days to hours.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

V2 Software LLC

Nov 2018 - Present

OpenAI (via Mercor)

Scored business documents and slide decks against a calibrated rubric on the Feather platform, and automated the grading workflow with deterministic gates and cold-read judges.

Mayo Clinic

Evolved AEM toward a hybrid headless CMS with GraphQL query optimization and API-driven caching, reducing editorial latency across channels. Built React component systems and Next.js middleware for authentication, request logging, and reviewer workflows. Delivered FastAPI services and LangGraph orchestration for AI-assisted document review, helping cut validation time from 2 hours to under 10 minutes.

Signet Jewelers

Built a full-stack AI Foundry platform with React/Next.js, TypeScript, Bedrock AgentCore, Node.js, and AWS CDK. Added Azure AD auth, spend analytics, MCP tooling, and self-serve onboarding for internal product teams. Shipped recruiter, AWS architect, and HR agents with Playwright E2E coverage and approval controls, reducing PR review cycles from days to hours.

JP Morgan Chase

Engineered React and Redux microfrontends for portfolio management, lending, and consumer engagement products. Built Node.js and Express services on AWS serverless infrastructure using Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, and S3. Delivered data pipelines, partner integrations, analytics dashboards, and reporting in regulated enterprise environments at consumer scale.

CACI (Army AI Maintenance, DoD)

Led React UI delivery for secure DoD applications and built Python services for data processing and ML output visualization. Implemented access-control and secure data handling patterns aligned with DoD requirements. Active Secret Clearance.

Senior Software Engineer

CoStar Realty Group

Jun 2017 - Nov 2018

Built Express BFF APIs for Android and iOS clients, React web listings, and Kinesis-backed notification pipelines on AWS.

Senior Software Engineer

DataScan

Aug 2016 - Mar 2017

Architected a wholesale transaction platform with Angular, D3 visualizations, and Node.js/Express APIs.

Software Engineer

General Electric

Nov 2015 - Aug 2016

Developed supply chain management software from the ground up with AngularJS, HTML/CSS, and Node.js.

Additional Client Delivery

Rivian Automotive: React/Redux platform work plus DynamoDB and Python Lambda pipelines for supply chain workflows.
College Board: React micro-frontend and AWS serverless features for Student Portal financial aid software serving millions of students.
Etsy (Reverb): Led Plaid integration with reusable React payment components and Node.js backend support.
Live Nation (Ticketmaster): Built React/Next.js and GraphQL event discovery and ticketing features at consumer scale.
Department of Veterans Affairs: Delivered internationalization and CMS integrations using React and Ruby on Rails.
Bayer Pharmaceuticals: Shipped Angular/Electron desktop application features and modernized a legacy codebase.