Hi, I'm Hafeez
I'm an AI engineer who loves learning new things, exploring new tech, and researching how far these systems can really go. I build agentic AI systems, RAG pipelines, and full-stack products, and I enjoy taking an idea all the way from a rough prototype to something running in production. When I'm not working I'm usually tinkering with a new model, framework, or side project. I also run Strophic, my own AI consulting and product studio.
I'm building Strophic
Composed systems for an AI-native business
Strophic was born from frustration with the gap between impressive AI demos and production-ready systems. We run a dual model: helping organizations integrate AI and automate workflows, while building our own Micro-SaaS products. The difference is in what survives the demo.
“Make advanced AI practical, measurable, and dependable for businesses of every size.”
What Strophic does
AI Integration
Put modern AI inside the tools your team already uses, right where the work happens.
Workflow & Process Automation
Remove the repetitive, error-prone steps between your tools and your outcomes.
Custom Software Development
Production software built to your business, not bent around someone else's template.
AI Agents & Chatbots
Assistants that do real work: answering, triaging, and acting across your systems.
Cloud & API Integrations
Connect your payments, CRM, data, and infrastructure reliably and securely.
Micro-SaaS Development
Take a product idea from validation to a launched, billing SaaS, fast.
Client work
Jumbo Money
FinFlow
AI-powered financial workspace helping businesses manage expenses, invoices, cash flow, and financial insights from a single platform.
FinTan
SmartLedger
Intelligent ledger management and financial oversight for freelancers and individuals.
Products we've shipped
TrendCaster Studio
BetaDiscover. Analyze. Create.
Smart news discovery, real-time trending topics, and AI-powered content generation for a streamlined research and publishing workflow.
Santa Swap
BetaEvery gift exchange, magical
Intelligent Secret Santa matching with unlimited groups, custom exclusion rules, and secure private exchanges on any device.
Pastebin
LiveHassle-free sharing at your fingertips
Instant paste creation with syntax highlighting, multiple privacy levels, and optional expiration dates.
How we work
Ship the truth
Working demos over polished promises.
Measure everything
Quality, latency, and cost are measured, not guessed.
Earn the trust
Client data and code treated with ownership-level care.
Stay curious
We keep learning so clients don't chase every model release.
Experience timeline
AI Engineer · RealPage, Inc.
Production AI-powered OCR platform for enterprise Spend Management
Full details
- Architected and developed a production-grade AI-powered OCR platform for enterprise Spend Management, owning the complete solution from architecture and development to production deployment.
- Built the complete backend using NestJS and frontend using React.js, delivering a scalable end-to-end enterprise application.
- Designed high-throughput document processing pipelines handling 10,000–20,000 invoices per day at ~98% OCR extraction accuracy.
- Developed intelligent invoice extraction pipelines for vendor details, metadata, line items, taxes, totals, purchase-order and payment information across diverse invoice formats.
- Implemented OCR confidence scoring and validation with automated quality assessment plus manual review workflows for low-confidence fields.
- Designed automated invoice verification and financial reconciliation workflows (subtotal, tax, discount, grand-total validation) to guarantee data consistency.
- Built AI-powered product categorization and line-item classification pipelines mapping products into standardized spend categories for enterprise reporting.
- Optimized throughput, latency, and reliability with asynchronous processing and fault-tolerant workflows.
Senior Software Engineer — AI / Agentic Systems · ZerocodeHR
Self-hosted AI infrastructure, agents, and RAG pipelines with the CTO
Full details
- Collaborated 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.
- Designed 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.
- Enhanced 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.
- Built high-accuracy RAG pipelines with LangChain, LlamaIndex, QdrantDB, and GPT-oss, designing custom ingestion, chunking, and retrieval strategies for large-scale document processing.
- Designed advanced AI agents using LangChain and OpenAI Agent SDK for site building, report generation, data modeling, and site automation.
- Built a secure, Docker-isolated Data Analysis Agent processing user-uploaded CSV/Excel with Pandas and Plotly, generating professional LaTeX PDF reports.
- Fine-tuned open-source LLMs (DeepSeek, Qwen) for domain-specific contextual understanding and accuracy.
- Architected high-performance FastAPI backends with Prometheus, Grafana Loki, and MLflow for metrics logging and model tracing.
- Deployed scalable ML model APIs with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and IAM.
- QA Automation: built frameworks with Java, Selenium, TestNG, and Spring Boot, cut suite execution time by 50% (2h to 1h) and fixed 200+ test cases.
Full Stack Web Developer — Intern · Xyenta Solutions
Fintech prototype — Spring Boot APIs and Flutter frontend
Full details
- Developed Spring Boot APIs in Java with DTOs, repositories, and configurations.
- Built Flutter pages in Dart for a fintech prototype; optimized logic for iOS/Android responsiveness.
- Ensured seamless backend-to-frontend integration and performance; collaborated via Git/GitHub.
Web Developer — Intern · Codecrux Web Technologies
Responsive websites and CI/CD fundamentals
Full details
- Developed responsive websites with HTML, CSS, JavaScript; used Webflow, WordPress, Bootstrap, Tailwind.
- Learned CI/CD workflows to improve deployment efficiency and reliability.
Featured projects
Things I've built while learning and exploring, from AI agents to full-stack products.
AI Agent System
Rapport Agent
- Multi-agent data analysis system for CSV/Excel uploads with specialized agents (Pay Equity, Attrition, HR).
- Automated charting, data exploration, and interactive conversation features for business analysis.
- AI-driven HR analytics via safe, Docker-sandboxed execution environments.
Full Stack
Rent Management System
- Flask-based application for managing monthly rents and financial records.
- Automated transaction logging and Excel export for offline access.
Skills & technologies
AI, ML & GenAI
Frameworks & Libraries
Languages
Cloud, Data & Tools
Education & grades
Sept 2020 — Aug 2024
The ICFAI University For Higher Education
B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering
9.55/ 10.0 GPA
June 2018 — May 2020
Sri Chaitanya Junior College
Math, Physics and Chemistry
9.88/ 10.0 GPA
May 2018
Bhashyam Public School
Secondary Schooling
10/ 10.0 GPA
Let's build something that ships
Whether it's an AI integration, an agentic system, or a product idea, I'm always up for a conversation. Reach out directly, or work with my studio at Strophic.