Saim Safdar

AI Solutions Architect and AI Automation Engineer
Lahore, Pakistan| +92-331-1489902| saimintech26@gmail.com| linkedin.com/in/saimsafdar| saim.me

Summary

AI solutions architect and automation engineer who designs, builds, and operates production LLM agents, RAG systems, and data pipelines that remove manual work. Over 10 years across web, data engineering, and applied AI. Currently lead AI and automation at a real estate technology company, where the work runs in production for a live customer fleet, not in demos. Strong across the full path: agent design, workflow automation, data engineering, and the cloud and security engineering to ship it reliably.

Core Skills

AI and Agents
LLM agents, RAG (Pinecone, LangChain), intent recognition (LangExtract), voice AI (Whisper, Gemini, ElevenLabs), MCP tooling, LLM observability
Automation
n8n, Make.com, Langflow, Google Apps Script, workflow orchestration, Chrome extensions
Data Engineering
ETL and ELT, Apache Airflow, PySpark, BigQuery, Google Pub/Sub, Pandas, NumPy
Cloud and DevOps
GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions), AWS, Supabase (Postgres, RLS), Railway, Vercel, Docker, CI/CD, Ansible, DigitalOcean
Languages
Python, JavaScript and TypeScript, PHP, SQL

Professional Experience

Lead AI & Automation Engineer, ValeryFeb 2025 - Present
Senior Data Engineer, BelgiumImmoMar 2023 - Aug 2024 - Belgium (Remote)
DevOps and Automation Specialist, MarketviewAug 2021 - Mar 2023
Automation Consultant and Developer, Genesis Analytics (UK)Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
AI and Automation Consultant (Independent)May 2017 - Feb 2025
Senior Web Developer, RoyalInTechApr 2014 - 2016

Selected Products and Projects

Note-Taker. Autonomous AI meeting-notes system on GCP: a bot joins Google Meet, transcribes with Whisper, summarizes with Gemini, and files notes to Google Docs. Scale-to-zero cost.
Kalima. Live Quranic Arabic learning web app (React, serverless OAuth proxy, audio-synced highlighting). kalima-arabic.netlify.app
fastdatascience. Published Google Sheets Marketplace add-ons that enrich datasets from external data APIs.
mailinthebox. Zero-downtime migration of a production mail and DNS server, plus a hardened, least-privilege DNS provisioning API.
Also: voice AI agent (Whisper, Gemini, ElevenLabs, n8n); AI PDF conversational agent (OpenAI embeddings, Pinecone RAG); AI YouTube Shorts automation that cut manual work by 80 percent.

Education

University of the Punjab, Lahore. Bachelor's degree, 2007 to 2011.
Government College of Technology. Associate's degree, 2016 to 2018.

Certifications

IBM: Python for Data Science, AI and Development
IBM: ETL and Data Pipelines with Shell, Airflow and Kafka
University of Michigan: Using Databases with Python; Python Data Structures