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Zakeer Shaik

Software Engineer|AI + Data

2+ years bridging scalable Azure data pipelines and intelligent agentic systems — RAG, LLM evaluation, and production-grade AI.

Bangalore, India

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languagesPythonAdvanced SQLPySparkPandasNumPy
azure_cloudData FactoryDatabricksADLS Gen2SynapseAzure SQLDelta LakeFabric
ai_agenticAgentic AIRAGLLM EvaluationPrompt EngineeringMCPRLHFVector DBsLangChain
devops_toolsDockerGitCI/CDFastAPIStreamlitGradioAzure DevOpsJira

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Software Engineer

Jan 2024 — Present
VisionQuest Solutions · Client: Wipro
  • Monitored ETL production pipelines in Azure Data Factory, maintaining ~99% successful daily load completion within SLA.
  • Refactored 10+ legacy SQL Server stored procedures into PySpark on Databricks, improving performance ~25–30%.
  • Built a Python utility to archive inactive ADLS Gen2 data to cold storage, cutting storage costs ~15–20%.
  • Implemented logging, alerting, and data quality validations to improve early failure detection.

Jr. Data Scientist (Freelance)

Aug 2023 — Dec 2023
Outlier AI · Client: Scale AI
  • Wrote 400+ Python & SQL solutions to train generative AI models with focus on correct syntax and logic.
  • Designed complex prompts to test model handling of database queries and edge cases.
  • Ran A/B comparisons of model outputs and flagged unsafe responses to reduce hallucinations.

Data Science Intern

Feb 2023 — Aug 2023
AIVariant
  • Led a customer segmentation project using behavioural and demographic data.
  • Applied K-Means & Agglomerative clustering; built a KNN classifier reaching ~85% accuracy.

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★ Winner · Kong API Summit 2025

Customer Support Agent with AI Gateway

Cost-optimised AI support system with dynamic query routing via Kong AI Gateway, real-time sentiment analysis, and automatic CRM escalation. Achieved <$0.10 per query and <2s response time.

stack: FastAPI · Kong Gateway · Groq · ChromaDB · LangChain · Docker
view repo →
Elastic Agent

Elastic MCP PR Reviewer

Autonomous DevSecOps agent that vectorised 5,000 historical PRs for semantic vulnerability detection, integrated GitHub via MCP, and autonomously injected secure code fixes into live Pull Requests.

stack: Elasticsearch · SentenceTransformers · MCP · Elastic Agent Builder · Python
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Splunk Agentic Ops

AgentLens · LLM Agent Observability

Open-source Python SDK that auto-instruments CrewAI & LangGraph with one line of code, streaming telemetry to Splunk. Two-layer ML detection catches prompt injection and token-cost anomalies in real time.

stack: Python SDK · OpenTelemetry · Splunk · CrewAI · LangGraph
view repo →

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## Education
M.C.A — Computer Applications
Annamacharya Institute of Tech & Science · 2022
B.Sc — Computer Science & Statistics
Yogi Vemana University · 2020
## Certifications
HackerRank — Software Engineer Certificate
Advanced NLP with Python for Machine Learning
Excelr — Data Science Certification
## Achievements & Community
  • Winner Best Agentic Project, Kong API Summit 2025
  • 1st Place Data Engineering Hackathon Leaderboard
  • Co-Organizer Kong API Events, Hyderabad
  • Technical Volunteer DevRel Squad Hyderabad (LangDB.AI, FireDucks, Firebolt)
  • Volunteer GitTogether GitHub Copilot Event

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Get in Touch

Open to Data Engineer & AI Engineer roles.