I build backend
systems, products
and ML applications.

I work across the stack - Python and FastAPI over PostgreSQL, React where the interface has to carry something complicated, and machine learning where a prediction has to hold up. The interesting part is usually the rule behind the feature: who gets access, what data a model is allowed to see, and what happens when an operation runs twice.

Syeda Anoosha Iqtidar · Software Engineer · Pakistan

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About

I am a software engineer focused on backend and full-stack development, with a strong interest in machine learning and AI systems.

I like building software where the details matter. Most of my work has been with Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL and React, alongside ML models, LLMs and data pipelines. I am particularly interested in the parts of engineering that sit behind the interface: how data moves through a system, how access is controlled, how a model gets its inputs, and how to make a result reproducible when it actually matters.

At Effective Risk Management I have worked on products involving risk assessment, disclosure analysis, third-party risk and digital learning. That work taught me to treat AI as one part of a system rather than the system itself. LLMs can classify and assist, but rules, validation, permissions and audit trails still need to have clear ownership.

That mindset carries into my personal projects too. I have built an air-quality forecasting system designed to prevent data leakage, a productivity app where task prioritisation stays deterministic even when an ML model is involved, and several backend and AI applications from APIs to document processing and RAG systems.

I graduated third in my Software Engineering batch from Mehran University of Engineering and Technology with a 3.81 CGPA.

I am currently looking for a backend or full-stack engineering role where I can build production software, keep learning, and take responsibility for the systems I work on.

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Projects shipped
18Projects shipped
Engineering roles
5Engineering roles
CGPA · third in batch
3.81CGPA · third in batch
Products at ERM
5Products at ERM

Experience

Jun 2025 - Present

Remote · Australia

Effective Risk Management

Software Engineering Intern

  • Built five full-stack products, covering disclosure benchmarking, emerging-risk outlook, third-party risk, internal delivery tooling and a digital learning and commerce platform.
  • Shipped Practicable, a marketplace on a 42-table PostgreSQL schema with 157 REST endpoints, Stripe webhook fulfilment and 582 backend tests, where a single entitlement gate decides all access.
  • Developed two deterministic risk-scoring engines with AI-assisted features, keeping rule-based scoring separate from controlled LLM usage.
  • Built a resumable SEC EDGAR pipeline processing 10-K filings into risk factors and classifications against an ISO-aligned taxonomy.
  • Implemented JWT and role-based access control, audit logging and backend test coverage across the platform.

Python · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Supabase · React · Vite · Tailwind CSS · Pytest

Dec 2025 - Feb 2026

Remote · Pakistan

10Pearls

Data Science Intern

  • Built an air quality forecasting system producing hourly AQI predictions 72 hours ahead, from a 45-feature representation engineered to be free of look-ahead bias.
  • Benchmarked five models under TimeSeriesSplit cross-validation with automated promotion by a deterministic rule, reaching validation RMSE 3.24 and R² 0.98 with LightGBM.
  • Automated the lifecycle with hourly ingestion and daily retraining workflows, behind a three-tier storage abstraction with failover and a GridFS-backed model registry.

Python · FastAPI · LightGBM · XGBoost · TensorFlow · SHAP · MongoDB Atlas · Hopsworks · Streamlit · GitHub Actions · Pytest

Sep 2025 - Nov 2025

Remote · Pakistan

Buildables

Artificial Intelligence Fellow

  • Built a prompt optimisation platform using RAG over a curated prompt-engineering corpus indexed in Pinecone, with deterministic parsing of tag-delimited model output.
  • Built a voice-to-voice assistant chaining transcription, LLM response and speech synthesis, and a decision-support chatbot constrained by structured system prompting.
  • Worked hands-on with large language models, embeddings, text-to-speech, speech-to-text and prompt engineering.

Python · FastAPI · Flask · LangChain · Groq API · Pinecone · sentence-transformers · Streamlit · React

Jun 2024 - Aug 2024

Remote · Pakistan

TIERS Limited

Django Intern

  • Developed full-stack web applications with Django and Django REST Framework, integrated with React frontends.
  • Implemented models, views, templates, custom user authentication, DRF serializers and viewsets.

Python · Django · Django REST Framework · React · HTML · CSS

Apr 2024

On-site · Hyderabad

BitsPro

Backend Developer Intern

  • Developed backend functionality in Go and built REST APIs supporting data exchange between applications.
  • Used GORM for database interaction and object-relational mapping.
  • Wrote unit and integration tests covering application behaviour.

Go · GORM · REST APIs

Projects

Case studies05

2026 · Full-stack

Practicable

A digital product marketplace for risk management professionals, selling courses, practice questions, document templates and reference packs with entitlement-based access granted on purchase.

Engineering focus

Every route into the product - a purchase, an admin grant, a self-serve refund, a chargeback from the Stripe dashboard - has to end at the same answer about who can see what. So access is decided at a single entitlement gate rather than checked ad hoc per endpoint, and certificate issuance is idempotent from both the lesson-completion and quiz-submission paths, so either ordering mints exactly one certificate.

Python 3.12FastAPISQLAlchemy 2.0 (async)AlembicasyncpgPostgreSQL 16Pydantic v2+22 more
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2025 · Full-stack

OSINT Third-Party Risk Management

A vendor risk platform that turns a vendor name or domain into evidence-linked risk records, using only lawfully public sources.

Engineering focus

Vendor risk tools tend to return a single opaque number. The design question here was how to keep risk and confidence as separate dimensions, so that a thin evidence base lowers confidence rather than quietly inflating or deflating the risk score - and how to make every record point back to the document it came from.

PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLNeonServer-Sent EventsXAMLdnspython+6 more
Read the case studyEmployer project — source private
2025 · AI / Backend

Emerging Risk Model

An emerging-risk outlook engine that takes an organisation profile - industry, size, geography - and returns board-ready risks with cell-level provenance.

Engineering focus

The central constraint: language models are allowed to classify passages against a closed nine-mechanism vocabulary and verify quotes verbatim, but every numerical score comes from deterministic additive rules over curated modifier cells. This keeps the output reproducible and lets each number be traced to its source passage.

PythonFastAPISQLAlchemyAlembicPostgreSQLSupabaseHS256 JWT+15 more
Read the case studyEmployer project — source private
2025–26 · ML / Backend

AQI Predictor

An air quality forecasting system for Hyderabad, Pakistan, producing hourly AQI predictions 72 hours ahead through automated collection, daily retraining and an explainable dashboard.

Engineering focus

A time-series model will happily report an excellent score while quietly reading its own answer. Most of the work here went into making that impossible: backward-only causal rolling-median imputation, limited forward-fill windows and shift(1) change-rate baselines, so no feature at time t can observe the target it predicts. The training and inference paths were split into separate feature groups for the same reason - an observed-only historical store and a forecast-weather store - so forecast data can never contaminate training.

Python 3.12FastAPIUvicornPydanticStreamlitPlotlyscikit-learn+16 more
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2024–25 · ML / Backend

FocusAid

A cross-platform ADHD productivity app combining task management, mood-adaptive prioritisation, Pomodoro tracking, gamified rewards and voice-based task capture.

Engineering focus

Generic task apps assume the user can decompose work and judge what to do next. The premise here is that they often cannot - so ordering is computed rather than left to the user, by a deterministic four-factor engine scoring weighted priority, deadline urgency, mood-to-effort match and mood-to-task-type match. Keeping that scoring deterministic matters: the model assists with decomposition, but it never decides what you work on, and when it is unavailable the app degrades to manual entry instead of failing. Decomposition itself meant fine-tuning candidates small enough to serve cheaply behind an ordinary mobile client.

PythonFastAPISQLAlchemy 2.0AlembicPostgreSQLNeonPydantic v2+21 more
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Other projects13

2025Risk Completeness ModuleA risk disclosure benchmarking platform comparing an organisation's declared risk themes against peers drawn from US SEC 10-K Item 1A filings.Full-stack2025Internal Kanban BoardA multi-project task management platform for delivery teams, with drag-and-drop boards, membership invitations and append-only card audit trails.Full-stack2025PromptTuneA prompt optimisation platform that converts a raw prompt into a paste-ready system prompt with rationale and a self-evaluation checklist, using RAG over a curated prompt-engineering corpus.AI / Backend2025Affordable MealsA meal planning platform aligned with UN SDG 1 and SDG 2, generating low-cost, nutritious and culturally appropriate meal plans from dietary preferences, health conditions, budget and origin region.AI / Backend2025Conversational AI BotA voice-to-voice assistant that accepts speech, transcribes it, generates an LLM response and returns a spoken audio reply.AI / Backend2025Micro CoachA decision-support chatbot that turns an everyday dilemma into short, practical guidance through a React chat interface.AI / Backend2024PCOS PredictorA machine learning web application for early PCOS screening from clinical and lifestyle indicators.ML / Backend2026Code DefenseA mock technical interview platform that reads a GitHub repository, pull request or commit and asks six questions about the candidate's own code.AI Systems2026PreMortemA two-phase tool that scores a startup idea 0–100 across seven dimensions, then generates an editable landing page from the result.Frontend / Mobile2026FixCommitA tool that analyses any public GitHub repository and returns real bugs, edge cases and ready-to-copy patch snippets.Frontend / Mobile2026Document Classifier and ExtractorA FastAPI service that takes a PDF or text upload and returns validated JSON: document type, sentiment, named entities with confidence, and a summary.AI / Backend2025Scroll SpaceA full-stack blog platform with rich-text editing, comments and JWT authentication.Full-stack2023Cook SmartA cross-platform recipe and meal planning app running from a single Dart codebase across Android, iOS, web and desktop.Frontend / Mobile
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18 projects · 5 written up

Skills

Languages

Python · JavaScript · TypeScript · Go · Dart · SQL · HTML · CSS

Backend & APIs

FastAPI · Django · Django REST Framework · Flask · Node.js · Express · REST APIs · Pydantic · SQLAlchemy (async) · Alembic · asyncpg · Stripe · Webhooks

Frontend & Mobile

React · React Native · Vite · Tailwind CSS · Flutter · Redux Toolkit · Zustand · TanStack Query · shadcn/ui · Radix UI

Databases

PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB Atlas · Supabase · Firebase · Neon · Firestore · Pinecone · Drizzle ORM · GORM · GridFS

Machine Learning

PyTorch · TensorFlow · Keras · scikit-learn · XGBoost · LightGBM · SHAP · Time-series forecasting · Model selection and evaluation

Language Models

LLM integration · Prompt engineering · Fine-tuning (LoRA) · RAG pipeline design · Vector search · Structured output parsing · Provider failover · LangChain · LLaMA 3 · Gemma · Phi-2 · Google Gemini · Groq · OpenRouter

Data & Tooling

Hugging Face · sentence-transformers · Hopsworks Feature Store · Pandas · NumPy · Plotly · Matplotlib · Seaborn · Web scraping · Document parsing

Auth & Security

JWT · Refresh token flows · Role-based access control · Audit logging

Testing & Delivery

Pytest · Unit testing · End-to-end testing · Accessibility testing · GitHub Actions · CI/CD · Ruff · Playwright · Render · Vercel

Record

Education

B.E. Software Engineering

Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro

2021 - 2025 · CGPA 3.81

Graduated third in batch

College of Excellence, Hyderabad — Pre-Engineering, Intermediate and Secondary Education - Grade A

Certifications

  • Advanced Learning AlgorithmsDeepLearning.AI · Jul 2024
  • Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and ClassificationDeepLearning.AI · Jul 2024
  • National Freelance Training Program - Technical DomainNFTP · Aug 2023
  • Intermediate PythonDataCamp · Jun 2023
  • Introduction to Data ScienceCisco · Jun 2023
  • Google Data Analytics FoundationsGoogle · May 2023

Activities

  • Designed event branding, posters and social media graphics for student technology events.
  • Worked with GDSC, Kubernetes Community Days Lahore and the Mehfooz Mustaqbil Foundation on design and outreach.