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Taha Wasiq

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Software Engineer
Startup Founder
Dallas, TX

I am a Computer Science Master's student at UIUC and a 2x AI Engineer Intern at IBM, building agentic AI workflows and backend tools that drive real business impact. I've also co-founded a SaaS platform for NDA negotiations, to deliver full-stack solutions across industries.

Experience

  • Wrote 3 backend tools using Python and exposed FastAPI endpoints that implemented OCR, page orientation detection, and text blur detection using OpenCV libraries with <5% margin error
  • Implemented each tool into an agentic AI workflow to automate Quality control for Wells Fargo’s loan application process and successfully reduce Loan Analyst review time by 80%
  • Built and deployed a GPU-accelerated live speech-to-text endpoint on CodeEngine using IBM’s 8B-parameter Speech model
  • Integrated the speech-to-text endpoint into an agentic AI workflow with parallel processing for summarization, sentiment analysis, and recommended actions—reducing support delivery time by 50%
  • Built an Agentic RAG system using Langflow and AstraDB, vectorizing 100+ 10-K filings; containerized with Docker, deployed to IBM CodeEngine, and integrated as a custom tool in Watsonx Orchestrate
  • Led a technical team of interns to develop a Full-Stack internal marketplace application, which led to buy-in from C-Suite Executives
PythonFastAPIOpenCVIBM CodeEngineDockerLangflowAstraDBWatsonxReact
  • Creating a software to streamline the NDA contract negotiation process with a FastAPI Python backend that currently has 3k+ lines of code, and a React JavaScript Frontend with 5 pages currently deployed
  • Integrated Supabase (PostgreSQL + storage), Google Firebase Auth, GitHub, Vercel, and Render into a seamless CI/CD workflow, automating database migrations and deployments across those 5 platforms to reduce deployment time by 40%
  • Implementing document editing features including redline tracking, version control, and automated email notifications
PythonFastAPIReactJavaScriptSupabasePostgreSQLFirebase AuthVercelRenderCI/CD
  • Performed data cleaning, model tuning, and prompt engineering in Python Notebooks and compared outputs from 9 Watsonx.ai large language models in a RAG use case for Honda vehicle design
  • Utilized IBM prompt lab to generate 20 examples of input and output data in Python Dictionary format to be used for RAG metric testing in developing a watsonx.gov dashboard for PepsiCo’s Gen AI models
PythonWatsonx.aiRAGJupyter NotebooksPrompt EngineeringLLMs
  • Researched the applications of AI and ML in IBM’s broad range of 7+ cybersecurity products
  • Developed 7 innovative use cases, using my knowledge of AI & ML, that I presented to IBM Cybersecurity sales managers
AI/MLCybersecurityIBM ProductsTechnical Sales
  • Operated my own shoe re-selling business and brought $20k in revenue
  • Programmed a software in C# that used a web-driver to acquire inventory from the Footlocker website
C#Web ScrapingE-commerceBusiness Operations
  • Generated recurring yearly sales revenue of approximately $71,000 on behalf of AT&T
  • Negotiated benefits of AT&T services to over 2,000 businesses and corporations through cold calling
SalesAccount ManagementAT&T ServicesBusiness Development

Education

  • Focus in Artificial Intelligence
  • Coursework: Applied Machine Learning, Deep Learning for Healthcare, Natural Language Processing, Computational Photography, Software Engineering, Practical Statistical Learning
  • Honors/Scholarships: Academic Excellence Scholar, JSOM Freshman Excellence Scholar
  • Application of Statistics, Data Science, and Machine Learning techniques through Python programming
  • Completed 9 projects based on real-world business applications

Skills

Programming:

PythonJavaJavaScriptTypeScriptSQLHTMLCSSXMLC#

Frameworks / Tools:

FastAPIReact.jsGitVercelRenderSupabaseFirebaseOpenCVLangFlowLangChainPandasNumPyMatplotlibSciPyTableauMicrosoft OfficeBlender

Concepts:

Machine LearningGenerative AIData ScienceBackend/Frontend DevelopmentCI/CDApplication Development

Projects

PythonNumPyOpenCVSciPyBlender
  • Implemented texture synthesis pipeline via dynamic programming-based image quilting, generating realistic imagery, and processing 8+ texture samples across 2,015 lines of implementation code
  • Developed Gradient Domain Processing using Poisson equation solvers and Laplacian pyramids across 1,925 lines of python notebook code for seamless object insertion and blending
  • Built HDR reconstruction and Object rendering system by merging 6+ exposure sequences with equirectangular environment mapping, integrating Blender's Cycles engine for GPU-accelerated ray-traced rendering
JavaAndroidXMLGoogle Maps APIWeather APILLM APIGradle
  • Built an Android app in a team of 5 Software Engineers, enabling users to add global locations, view them on Google Maps, fetch real-time weather data via API, and display insights using an LLM API
  • Developed 10 backend Java files and 10 frontend XML files; implemented both manual and LLM-generated Gradle testing
PythonTensorFlowOpenCVDeep LearningCNNVGG16Data Augmentation
  • Constructed an ML model on a dataset of 1000+ images that identifies Brain MRI Scans with or without a tumor
  • Utilized Data Augmentation then a 16-layer Convolutional Neural Network with Dropout, Pooling, and other Deep Learning concepts to achieve accuracy of 82%
  • Leveraged the open-source VGG16 CNN model, which achieved 95% accuracy on the validation set
PythonNLPTokenizationVectorizationMachine LearningSentiment Analysis
  • Applied Python, Tokenization, Vectorization, and other Natural Language Processing techniques to identify positive, neutral, and negative sentiments toward U.S. Airlines based on 15 parameters of over 14,000 customer tweets
  • Developed an ML model that helps U.S. Airlines identify customer sentiment and achieved accuracy of 80%