I build AI systems & data infrastructure that ship.

Python/Go engineer with 11+ years across AI agents, LLM integrations, RAG systems, distributed data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Co-Founder & CEO of Datum Brain — delivering production systems for enterprise clients in fintech, edtech, ad tech, energy, and real estate.

Fahad Siddiqui
11+
years engineering
22
published case studies
12
products shipped
35+
client teams

Selected Work

Systems running in production, not demos.

01

Centrum AI

AI Agents

Enterprise platform where AI agents write and execute their own code inside sandboxed containers, with 70+ integrated tools, multi-LLM orchestration with automatic failover across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Vertex AI, and a complete audit trail of every action.

70+ production-ready tools · every action in an append-only, versioned audit trail
GoPostgreSQLDockerReactPython + PyTorchOpenAI / Anthropic / Vertex AICloud Run
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02

Polymer

Document Intelligence

Distributed document intelligence platform that turns large unstructured document collections into queryable knowledge graphs of entities and their relationships — weeks of manual review replaced by automatic extraction that scales with compute.

90% lower document processing cost · 100x faster at scale
PythonNLPVector SearchLangChainOpenAI APIPostgreSQLS3
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03

TrueAudience

Ad Fraud Detection

High-throughput fraud scoring engine fusing behavioral analysis, device fingerprinting, and multi-database IP intelligence into a single real-time score — so ad traffic is judged before budget is spent on bots.

Millions of ad events scored per day · 5+ fraud intelligence sources in one score
GoMySQLRedisKubernetesMaxMind GeoIP2ScamalyticsAbuseIPDB
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04

Zolvat

Fintech / Banking

Complete Electronic Money Institution stack: core banking backend, SEPA instant payments with ISO 20022 compliance enforced by generated types, sanctions screening, and a client portal with face-liveness biometric KYC.

13+ sanction sources in one screening pipeline · 45K+ BIC records for SEPA routing
GoVue 3 + TypeScriptPostgreSQLISO 20022 / SEPAPython + LuigiRedisAWS
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05

DameTech

Energy / Automation

Event-driven platform that recalculates Bitcoin mining break-even economics every five minutes against Australian electricity spot prices and autonomously pauses or resumes miners across multiple sites.

5-minute break-even cycle on live AEMO prices · seconds to fleet-wide pause or resume
GoPythonAWS LambdaDynamoDBInfluxDBKubernetesgRPCReact
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06

Examity VRS

Video Infrastructure

Event-driven proctoring infrastructure recording exam sessions at scale, with bandwidth pre-checks, WebAssembly-powered privacy-preserving background blur, and automated multi-track video composition.

20–30 concurrent exams per proctor · up to 6x proctor coverage
GoWebRTCRedisPostgreSQLDockerAWS
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07

Superlayer

Revenue Intelligence

Revenue intelligence platform that records and analyzes sales conversations, enforces CRM data quality through a rule engine, and reconstructs pipeline history to expose stage velocity and bottlenecks.

5–10% win-rate lift · 5–7 hrs/week of sales admin removed per rep
GoPostgreSQLOpenAI APIDeepgramAWSRedisDocker
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08

Keyword Grouper

SEO Automation

Automated SEO pipeline clustering keywords by search intent through SERP URL overlap with 100-thread concurrent fetching — surfacing content gaps, cannibalization, and priority targets that took analysts weeks to find.

10,000+ keywords clustered per run · weeks of research → one run
PythonDjangoCelery + RabbitMQSERPAPIPandassentence-transformersSnowflake
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09

Zoomprop

Real Estate Data

Real estate intelligence platform aggregating property data, public records, and twelve national location sensors into investment-ready analytics — Dagster-orchestrated pipelines and a PostGIS spatial layer behind a FastAPI service.

Investment-ready intelligence in minutes · continuous opportunity detection
PythonFastAPIPostgreSQL + PostGISDagsterRedisAWS
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10

EnvoEdge

ESG Compliance

Enterprise ESG reporting platform, now live as EnvoEdge — centralizing multi-site data collection, digital approval workflows, and multi-framework report generation in a single system of record.

80% faster ESG reporting · 3–4 months → 2–3 weeks per full report
PythonFastAPIReact/TypeScriptPostgreSQLDocker
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11

Spongeling

AI Language Learning

Dual-engine language platform pairing FreeLing NLP precision with GPT-4 context, turning any real-world Spanish text into structured, personalized learning material — delivered through a Flutter app and a Vue 3 portal.

Full dual-engine analysis in seconds · cents per analysis
GoFreeLing NLPGPT-4FlutterVue 3 + TypeScriptPostgreSQL
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12

Mecku

Visual ETL

Drag-and-drop pipeline builder that lets analysts compose distributed ETL jobs across ten-plus data sources without writing Spark code, with fault-tolerant cluster execution handled by the platform.

80–90% less pipeline development time · weeks → days per new pipeline
GoReact/TypeScriptScala/SparkApache KafkaPostgreSQLDocker
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13

RSaaS

Scheduling Infrastructure

Unified exam scheduling API for PSI that abstracts booking complexity behind one integration, with Redis caching and a hold-and-confirm workflow that structurally prevents double-booking.

$50K onboarding cost saved per client · integration in 2 weeks instead of 3 months
GoReact/TypeScriptPostgreSQLRedisDocker
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Experience

A decade of leading and building. Remotely.

May 2020 — Present

Datum Brain Co-Founder & CEO

Lahore, Pakistan
  • Engineering studio building AI-augmented backend systems for clients across the US, Europe, and MENA — 22 documented client projects across AI/ML, FinTech, SaaS, and data engineering.
  • Architected Centrum AI, a 200,000+ LOC autonomous agent platform where agents write and execute their own code in Docker-isolated environments, with 70+ production tools and multi-vendor LLM failover across OpenAI, Claude, and Vertex AI.
  • MENA delivery includes EnvoEdge (Berexia, Morocco), now live commercially at envoedge.com, plus Prepaire Labs (UAE) outbreak intelligence and TanitLab (Tunisia) large-scale data engineering.
  • Architected Polymer, a document intelligence platform extracting 20+ entity types across millions of documents into a co-occurrence knowledge graph — 90% lower processing cost, 100x faster at scale.
Apr 2018 — Jul 2020

Polymer Runtime Data Security Head of Engineering

New York, United States
  • Led development of a document intelligence platform using NLP for entity extraction across 100K+ documents, designed as 20+ microservice repositories on serverless AWS Lambda.
  • Built a knowledge graph system with Neo4j and custom NER models reaching 95% entity recognition precision; collaborated with the official Neo4j team on client POCs.
  • Took Polymer HQ into Acceleprise, selected from 200+ applicants.
Apr 2019 — Feb 2020

Parcelist Project Lead Developer

Greater Philadelphia Area, United States
  • Self-managing package delivery for residential communities: automated delivery validation with universal barcode scanning, and resident notifications supporting 600+ residents per building across all carriers.
Feb 2019 — Jun 2019

University of the Punjab Visiting Faculty Member

Lahore, Pakistan
  • Taught Data Structures & Algorithms (CMP-210).
May 2017 — Apr 2018

Arbisoft Senior Software Engineer

  • Worked on the Sastaticket.pk flight and train module, and as a senior data engineer on Lola (longitude-latitude).
Jun 2016 — May 2017

Strategic Systems International Senior Software Engineer

Lahore, Pakistan
  • Delivered sub-100ms APIs with Play Framework for the ImpactUs marketplace, and worked on the Gemini hedge fund project in pure functional Scala.
May 2015 — Jun 2016

Platalytics, Inc. Software Engineer

Lahore, Pakistan
  • Built data ingestion for a big data product on Akka streams, researched IoT messaging (MQTT, CoAP, AMQP), and wrote device SDKs for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Intel Edison/Galileo — including a customized py-amqp for OpenWRT.
Oct 2015 — Mar 2016

University of the Punjab Visiting Faculty Member

Lahore, Pakistan
  • Taught Enterprise Application Development (IT-477).
Dec 2014 — Apr 2015

Cloud Computing & Networks Research Lab Junior Research Assistant

PUCIT, Lahore
  • Final year project: a wearable Arduino sensor recording blood oxygen saturation and uploading it to Azure for analysis.

Products

Built at Datum Brain, released for everyone.

Open Source

Projects I contribute to.

Stack

What I reach for.

Languages
Python · Go · TypeScript · Scala
AI / ML
LangChain · LlamaIndex · OpenAI API · Claude API · RAG · Vector DBs
Data Engineering
Dagster · Apache Spark · Kafka · Luigi · ETL/ELT · Snowflake
Backend
FastAPI · Django · Flask · go-chi · gRPC · GraphQL
Databases
PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · Neo4j · DynamoDB · Pinecone
Cloud & DevOps
AWS · GCP · Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · GitHub Actions

Have a hard systems problem?

I take on AI platforms, data infrastructure, and backend systems — directly or with the Datum Brain team. Usually responding within a day.

fahad@datumbrain.com