Faizan Shaikh — AI & LLM Systems Engineer

About Me

I'm an Applied AI/LLM Engineer with 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, based in Dubai, UAE. I build end-to-end AI systems — from document ingestion and vector stores to multi-agent orchestration and enterprise integration.

Currently at the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), I architect mission-critical aviation regulatory systems, modernize legacy platforms into microservices, and lead AI-powered solutions for aviation safety and compliance.

My passion lies at the intersection of enterprise-grade engineering and cutting-edge AI — building RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, fine-tuned models, and privacy-first deployments that actually work in production.

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Location Dubai, UAE

Current Role Specialist Software Engineering @ GCAA

Education BS Computer Science — FAST-NUCES

Publication IEEE ICIET-2010 — SWISE

Technical Skills

AI & LLM Systems

RAG Pipelines LangChain Model Context Protocol Agentic Workflows Fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA) ChromaDB Weaviate Ollama / vLLM LLMOps Langfuse Prompt Engineering IBM Docling Semantic Caching

Backend & APIs

ASP.NET Core FastAPI Node.js Express.js REST APIs Microservices SQL Server Docker

Frontend & Mobile

Angular Next.js TypeScript JavaScript Swift / SwiftUI iOS Development

Languages

Python C# TypeScript JavaScript Swift SQL

DevOps & Tools

Docker Git OpenTelemetry AWS CI/CD Qlik Sense

Featured Projects

Published on App Store

App Store

AI Calorie Coach

AI-powered calorie tracking and nutrition coaching app for iOS. Smart food recognition and personalized dietary guidance.

SwiftSwiftUIAI/MLiOS

App Store Source

App Store

Offline Speech to Text

On-device speech-to-text app using WhisperKit. Works completely offline — no internet needed, no data leaves your device.

SwiftWhisperKitOn-Device AIiOS/macOS

App Store Source

Open Source

AI Support Assistant

An intelligent AI-powered support assistant built with Python for automated customer query handling and response generation.

PythonAI/LLM

Source Code

SafeThink

Privacy-first iOS AI assistant powered by on-device Qwen 3.5 models via MLX Swift. Zero data collection — your data never leaves your device.

SwiftSwiftUIMLXQwen 3.5iOS

Source Code

YouTube Channel

I create content about AI, LLMs, and software engineering. Check out my latest videos.

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Courses & Certifications

Generative AI Engineering & Fine-Tuning Transformers — IBM

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) — DeepLearning.AI

Finetuning Large Language Models — AMD

Agentic AI — Andrew Ng

Enhance LLM Reliability — AMD & Meta

PyTorch for Deep Learning — DeepLearning.AI

Fine-tuning & RL for LLMs — AMD

AWS Certified Cloud Developer

National Cyber Security Course

Data-Driven Governments Course

Get In Touch

Have a project in mind or just want to connect? I'd love to hear from you.

Email mfaizan.shaikh@gmail.com LinkedIn mfaizanshaikh GitHub mfaizanshaikh X (Twitter) @mfaizanshaikh