Zaid Afzal
AI ML Engineer at Grantify UK
Pakistan
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Top SchoolZaid Afzal is an AI/ML Engineer with seven years of hands-on experience building backend, cloud-native, and machine learning systems that scale reliably. He has driven end-to-end projects—from ideation to deployment—across startups and clients in the UK and US, implementing serverless microservices, ETL pipelines, and real-time video analytics on AWS. His background spans production ML (BERT, YOLOv5), data collection and labeling automation, and integrating models into customer-facing products like a Chrome safety extension and a Slack NLP chatbot that reduced HR workload. Comfortable in Go and Python, he architects cost-effective, event-driven systems (Lambda, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, DynamoDB) and deploys ML with SageMaker and Docker on Fargate. Beyond feature work, he hires and mentors junior engineers and interns, blending hands-on coding with team-building and operational rigor.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
English
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Github Skills (42)
git10
pgo10
deploying10
gitignore10
php10
version-control10
k8s-operator10
database-management10
high-availability9
postgresql9
javascript9
kubernetes-operator9
open-source9
postgres-operator9
disaster-recovery9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
z4id/ToDoFehrist
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
RESTful API for ToDo List application developed in PPDL (Python-PostgreSQL-Django-Linux) stack.
Contributions:99 PRs, 60 pushes, 106 branches in 1 month
apipythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangorestful
z4id/portfolio
May 2019 - Mar 2022
Personal Portfolio Website
Contributions:2 PRs, 49 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 11 months
reactcssjavascriptreactjspersonal-portfolio-website
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