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.

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