My CV
Anas Syed
Preston | me@anasyd.com | +44 7762287383 | Portfolio | LinkedIn | GitHub
Summary
Software Engineer with hands-on experience designing and delivering AI-integrated mobile, web, and cloud platforms. Skilled in leading technical projects from requirements through to production release, coordinating across multi-disciplinary teams, and embedding new systems into operational environments. Comfortable bridging the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure successful adoption of new technology.
Education
UCLan
Bachelors (Hons) — Software Engineering — GPA: 4.0
June 2025
AI: Facial Emotion Recognition using VGG16 with transfer learning.
Data Science: Customer segmentation using K-means with Elbow Method and silhouette analysis.
Distributed Systems: Containerised microservices using Docker and infrastructure-as-code on Azure.
Experience
ILMM AI
Co-Founder & CTO
June 2024 - Present
Defined functional requirements, set milestones, and ran Agile sprints to take a conversational AI platform from design through to production on the App Store and Play Store, supporting 50,000+ users.
Architected an AI and RAG pipeline with NLP-driven retrieval, reducing response time by 80% through document re-chunking, pre-computed embeddings, reranking, and WebSocket streaming.
Deployed containerised cloud infrastructure on AWS and Hetzner using Docker, managing CI/CD and production monitoring.
Coordinated between designers, developers, and external stakeholders, translating technical decisions into clear priorities across mobile, web, and cloud workstreams.
RELai
Founding Engineer
Jan 2023 - June 2024
Collaborated on system design and feature delivery for a production platform handling sensitive data, contributing to security and data-handling decisions from the start.
Built front-end interfaces for mobile and web using React, React Native, and TypeScript.
Contributed to back-end services using Django, FastAPI, and ExpressJS with PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
Projects
Expo, Open Source Package
Built and published a cross-platform React Native date/time picker as a TypeScript-based, open-source NPM package with rich modes, themable UI, and locale handling.
Next.js, Gemini API
Built an AI-powered learning system that converts PDFs into flashcards, study guides, and structured notes using Google Gemini AI within a Next.js + TypeScript architecture.
Covered 300+ lecture slides (an entire academic year) in 2 days, resulting in First-Class grades.
Microsoft Embrace Hackathon
April 2025
Flutter, Dart
Built an AI-powered adaptive learning mobile app in Flutter for neurodiverse learners, integrating Azure OpenAI for dynamic content adaptation and SQLite for local storage.
For more projects, visit anasyd.com/projects.
Technologies & Skills
Programming & AI: Python, Java, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, PyTorch, RAG, NLP, LangChain, LangSmith, Llama Index
Frontend & Mobile: React, React Native, Flutter, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Django, ShadCN, HTML, CSS
Backend & Cloud: FastAPI, ExpressJS, Node.js, Flask, REST APIs, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Supabase, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Hetzner, SQL
Tools & Methods: Git, GitHub, Agile, Figma, UI/UX, User-Centred Design, TDD
Certifications
Azure AI-900
Microsoft
Languages
English, Urdu, Hindi, Turkish, Arabic