Talal H

Principal AI Engineer @ NorthBay Solutions

About

I build AI systems that actually make it to production & stay there.As a Principal Engineer working in Generative AI, I focus on turning promising models into reliable, scalable systems. That means thinking beyond demos: performance, latency, cost, and how these systems behave under real-world pressure.My work sits at the intersection of backend engineering and applied ML; designing LLM-powered systems, building the infrastructure around them, and making sure they deliver consistent value. I’m particularly interested in how we move from “this works” to “this works at scale.”Always up for conversations around real-world GenAI, system design, and what it takes to ship AI that holds up.

Country

City

Pakistan

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Chatbots, Strategy, Public Speaking, Project Planning, Team Management, Team Building, Artificial Intelligence (AI), PEFT, LORA, Large Language Models (LLM), Personality Assessment, A/B Testing, Microsoft SQL Server, Technical Leadership, Leadership, Data Science, Python (Programming Language), Transact-SQL (T-SQL), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning

Experience

Principal AI Engineer

NorthBay Solutions

2024-7 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

SlashNext (acquired by Varonis)

2023-5 - 2024-7 · 1 yr 3 mos

1. Lead development of critical projects within a short-span - LLMs fine-tuning for threat identification & data augmentation, BEC attack identification and Spam intent detection. 2. Fine-tuned Roberta model to attain a ~99.2% precision in BEC threat detection. 3. Fine-tuned T5 large, achieved a 99.5% reduction in bugs in the deployed data augmentation model.

Senior Data Scientist

xiQ, Inc.

2023-1 - 2023-5 · 5 mos

1. Implemented a RAG 1-1 Email solution with Pinecone and OpenAI APIs to boost user efficiency. 2. Developed a DISC profiling engine, improving acc. by 4-5% for targeted marketing and LLM apps. 3. Refined SmartSourced content strategies to reduce human annotators effort by 50%. 4. Developed robust data pipelines to store and manage b2b campaign interactions touch-point data.

Data Scientist

xiQ, Inc.

2021-6 - 2022-12 · 1 yr 7 mos

Data Engineer

CureMD

2020-9 - 2021-6 · 10 mos

1. Built efficient data pipelines for migrating customer data into company infrastructure. 2. Explored and executed bug-free ETL on medical data architectures. 3. Developed a 1500-database master patient index for system-wide data consistency.