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Shaik Hafeez

001/Portfolio · 2026

Shaik AbdulHafeez.

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01How I Build

I build the thing I wished existed when I hit the problem.

Almost everything here started as a problem I ran into myself. Something annoys me, I decide it ought to exist, and I build my way out of it. I learn far more from that than from any tutorial, and I lean on open source the whole way, so I try to put work back into it where I can. Strophic isn't a company and I'm not its founder. It is the name on my workshop, where the experiments live.

Why I bother

Learn things properly by building them, and keep the ones that survive contact with reality.

What I keep building

6 rabbit holes
  • 01

    AI Integration

    Putting modern models inside tools that already exist, to find out where they genuinely help.

  • 02

    Workflow & Process Automation

    Cutting out the repetitive, error-prone steps that sit between one system and the next.

  • 03

    Custom Software Development

    Building the whole thing end to end, because that is how I learn what actually breaks.

  • 04

    AI Agents & Chatbots

    Assistants that do real work: answering, triaging, and acting across systems.

  • 05

    Cloud & API Integrations

    Wiring payments, data and infrastructure together, and keeping the joins reliable.

  • 06

    Micro-SaaS Development

    Taking an idea from a weekend prototype to something people can actually sign up for.

Rules I keep

01

Build what I needed

Most of it starts as a problem I hit myself.

02

Ship the truth

Working demos over polished promises.

03

Open by default

I lean on open source constantly, and put work back where I can.

04

Stay curious

Following the new thing far enough to know whether it matters.

02Career

Four years of shipping into production.

From responsive marketing sites to enterprise OCR pipelines processing twenty thousand invoices a day. Expand any entry for the full record.

  1. Apr 2026Present

    Hyderabad, Telangana

    RealPage, Inc.

    AI Engineer

    Production AI-powered OCR platform for enterprise Spend Management

    NestJSReact.jsOCRAI Pipelines
    1. 01Architected and developed a production-grade AI-powered OCR platform for enterprise Spend Management, owning the complete solution from architecture and development to production deployment.
    2. 02Built the complete backend using NestJS and frontend using React.js, delivering a scalable end-to-end enterprise application.
    3. 03Designed high-throughput document processing pipelines handling 10,000–20,000 invoices per day at ~98% OCR extraction accuracy.
    4. 04Developed intelligent invoice extraction pipelines for vendor details, metadata, line items, taxes, totals, purchase-order and payment information across diverse invoice formats.
    5. 05Implemented OCR confidence scoring and validation with automated quality assessment plus manual review workflows for low-confidence fields.
    6. 06Designed automated invoice verification and financial reconciliation workflows (subtotal, tax, discount, grand-total validation) to guarantee data consistency.
    7. 07Built AI-powered product categorization and line-item classification pipelines mapping products into standardized spend categories for enterprise reporting.
    8. 08Optimized throughput, latency, and reliability with asynchronous processing and fault-tolerant workflows.
  2. June 2024Apr 2026

    Hyderabad, Telangana

    ZerocodeHR

    Senior Software Engineer, AI / Agentic Systems

    Self-hosted AI infrastructure, agents, and RAG pipelines with the CTO

    LangChainvLLMQdrantFastAPIMCPDocker
    1. 01Collaborated directly with the CTO to architect self-hosted AI infrastructure: local model inference with vLLM, vector databases for RAG, and robust data pipelines for enterprise AI applications.
    2. 02Designed a multifunctional company chatbot for clients, developers, and professional services, integrated with Gmail and Google Chat, and extended Jira via MCP to automate ticket creation, updates, and daily reporting.
    3. 03Enhanced the chatbot with intelligent agent features (page-context explanations, guided navigation, in-page data analysis, and chart generation from grid data) with guardrails against toxicity and prompt injection plus rate limiting.
    4. 04Built high-accuracy RAG pipelines with LangChain, LlamaIndex, QdrantDB, and GPT-oss, designing custom ingestion, chunking, and retrieval strategies for large-scale document processing.
    5. 05Designed advanced AI agents using LangChain and OpenAI Agent SDK for site building, report generation, data modeling, and site automation.
    6. 06Built a secure, Docker-isolated Data Analysis Agent processing user-uploaded CSV/Excel with Pandas and Plotly, generating professional LaTeX PDF reports.
    7. 07Fine-tuned open-source LLMs (DeepSeek, Qwen) for domain-specific contextual understanding and accuracy.
    8. 08Architected high-performance FastAPI backends with Prometheus, Grafana Loki, and MLflow for metrics logging and model tracing.
    9. 09Deployed scalable ML model APIs with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and IAM.
    10. 10QA Automation: built frameworks with Java, Selenium, TestNG, and Spring Boot, cut suite execution time by 50% (2h to 1h) and fixed 200+ test cases.
  3. Jan 2024June 2024

    Hyderabad, Telangana

    Xyenta Solutions

    Full Stack Web Developer, Intern

    Fintech prototype with Spring Boot APIs and a Flutter frontend

    Spring BootJavaFlutterDart
    1. 01Developed Spring Boot APIs in Java with DTOs, repositories, and configurations.
    2. 02Built Flutter pages in Dart for a fintech prototype; optimized logic for iOS/Android responsiveness.
    3. 03Ensured seamless backend-to-frontend integration and performance; collaborated via Git/GitHub.
  4. June 2022Aug 2022

    Hyderabad, Telangana

    Codecrux Web Technologies

    Web Developer, Intern

    Responsive websites and CI/CD fundamentals

    HTMLCSSJavaScriptWebflow
    1. 01Developed responsive websites with HTML, CSS, JavaScript; used Webflow, WordPress, Bootstrap, Tailwind.
    2. 02Learned CI/CD workflows to improve deployment efficiency and reliability.
03Selected Work

Things I built to find out if they would work.

Every build in one place: the Strophic products, the agents and pipelines, the one-offs. Some became businesses, some became lessons; all of them shipped.

04Client Work

Things other people asked me to build.

Work that came in through Strophic. The same workshop, pointed at somebody else's problem.

Selected engagements

04 builds

01

Finance · 2026

Vertics

Vertics AI

The ledger that listens and thinks.

Bookkeeping that keeps up with you, not the other way around. An AI ledger that reads the books instead of waiting to be filled in.

AI FinanceFinancial ManagementExpense TrackingFinTech

02

Marketplace · 2026

Garage Pass

Garage Pass

Your lift. Your tools. Your time.

Stop paying a mechanic to do what you could do yourself. A booking platform for renting garage bays, lifts and tools by the hour.

GarageFreelanceRentalsOakland

03

Finance · 2026

Jumbo Money

FinFlow

One workspace for the whole ledger.

An AI-powered financial workspace helping businesses manage expenses, invoices, cash flow and financial insights from a single platform. Currently under active development.

AI FinanceInvoicingCash Flow AnalyticsFinTech

04

Finance · 2026

FinTan

SmartLedger

Manage your money. Master your finances.

Intelligent ledger management and financial oversight built for freelancers and individuals rather than finance departments.

Smart LedgerAIFreelancer Finance
Agentic SystemsRAG PipelinesvLLMLangChainQdrantMCPFine-tuning
FastAPINestJSNext.jsDockerAWSOCR at scalePrompt Guardrails
05Stack

The tools I reach for, and the ones I keep reaching for.

57 technologies across models, pipelines, backends and interfaces, grouped by how often they end up in the repo.

01

AI, ML & GenAI

Core · 11

  • Agentic AI Systems
  • RAG Pipelines
  • LLM Fine-tuning
  • MCP
  • Embeddings & Vector Search
  • OCR
  • Prompt Engineering & Guardrails
  • Full-Stack Web Development
  • Machine Learning
  • NLP
  • Testing & Automation
02

Frameworks & Libraries

Daily · 17

  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex
  • OpenAI Agent SDK
  • CrewAI
  • Phidata
  • vLLM
  • Ollama
  • React.js
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Spring Boot
  • Flutter
  • Pandas
  • Plotly
03

Languages

Fluent · 8

  • Python
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Dart
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • SQL
04

Cloud, Data & Tools

Infra · 16

  • Qdrant
  • ChromaDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Firebase
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • MLflow
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Figma
  • Jira
05

Design & Craft

Adjacent · 5

  • UI/UX Design
  • Photoshop
  • Video Editing
  • Adobe XD
  • Canva
06Archive

Where it was learned, and what got written down.

Education

Ledger

Sept 2020 – Aug 2024

The ICFAI University For Higher Education

B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering

9.55/10.0

June 2018 – May 2020

Sri Chaitanya Junior College

Math, Physics and Chemistry

9.88/10.0

May 2018

Bhashyam Public School

Secondary Schooling

10/10.0

07Contact

Let’s build something
that ships.

An AI integration, an agentic system, or a product idea that has been sitting in a notes app for six months. I’m happy to talk through any of it. Reach me directly, or take a look at what I’ve been building.