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About Sartaj Syed

I Help Companies Deploy AI. Fast.

AI Solutions Architect

I design and ship production AI across machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, LLMs, and RAG.

Previously founding member and AI architect at Doriot AI. Currently building agentic GenAI at CBRE. Shipped systems across the US, UK, and India.

My bias is simple: pick the right approach, build it properly, and get it into production. That might mean classical ML, a RAG pipeline, multi-agent workflows, or a GenAI product feature. Fit matters more than novelty.

6+
Years in software
4
Years building AI
10
Production systems shipped
Sartaj Syed, AI Solutions Architect

Where I Add the Most Value

From model choice to production delivery.

Architecture first

Clear tradeoffs across ML, LLMs, RAG, and agents before anyone writes a lot of code.

Production delivery

Evaluation, observability, cost control, and systems that survive real traffic and messy data.

End-to-end ownership

Data pipelines, model layer, APIs, and product features. Startup speed with enterprise discipline.

Building Doriot AI

Two core systems, now open source.

Doriot AI

May 2023 – Oct 2024 | Founding Member · AI Architect | Edinburgh, UK

Built the two core AI systems behind Doriot's agentic fundraising platform. Both are now open source.

Systems I Built:

  • Investment Market Research Agent: RAG agent with multi-label intent routing for funding and market research
  • Investor Recommender: GNN matching for startups with VC and angel investors (GraphSAGE, GATv2)
  • 1M+ startup-investor relationships modeled
  • 1B+ data points from Crunchbase, TechCrunch, and funding news

The Lessons:

  • How to build AI systems that handle billions of data points
  • Product-market fit is harder than engineering
  • Speed matters more than perfection
  • Team management: leading 6 interns through data engineering and ML delivery under startup pressure

Employment History

A roadmap from early engineering roles to GenAI systems work.

May 2025 – Present

Data Scientist - GenAI

CBRE | Hyderabad, India
  • Building mesh agentic GenAI systems
  • Autonomous agent collaboration for lease abstraction and market analysis
  • Enterprise-scale AI in production
October 2024 – March 2025

Software Developer

Goldman Sachs | Birmingham, UK
  • Data-driven application development
  • Automated ETL pipelines for structured datasets
  • Improved data accessibility for analysis and modeling
February 2022 – July 2022

Technical Consultant / ETL Developer

Xactly | Hyderabad, India
  • ETL pipelines processing 2M+ records/month
  • Sales compensation process automation
  • Client requirements analysis and tailored delivery
February 2020 – February 2022

Software Engineer

Infosys | Hyderabad, India
  • Feature development and bug fixes in Agile
  • Reliable production releases across cycles
  • Top performer award

Client Projects

Select freelance engagements.

AI & Tech Consultant

  • AI-powered audio ad generation and vernacular TTS for Indian languages
  • Multi-format creative systems spanning voice, image, and video ad units
  • Product and tech consulting for generative advertising workflows
March 2025 – May 2025

AI & Tech Consultant

Talentix | USA (Freelance)
  • Graph-powered career pathing with Neo4j
  • Personalized vertical, lateral, and pivot path recommendations
  • Two-layer AI job matching: vector search plus semantic reranking
  • Open sourced: AI-Careerpathing-system
September 2022 – Feb 2023

Technical Consultant

SwipeIt | USA (Freelance)
  • Data-intensive microservices for real-time transactional processing
  • Search engine for rewards catalog
  • Location tracking with geofence functionality (20% accuracy boost)

Academic Background

MSc Computer Science

The University of Edinburgh

2022-2023

Focus: Applied Machine Learning, Information Retrieval Systems, Deep Learning, Distributed Systems

Post Graduate Diploma in AI

IIIT Delhi

2021-2022

Specialisation in artificial intelligence, covering core ML and applied AI coursework.

B.E. Electrical & Electronics

Osmania University

2015-2019

Specialisation in IoT and Renewable Energies

What I Work With

GenAI / LLMs

OpenAI Claude APIs Gemini RAG Systems Vector DBs

Agentic Frameworks

LangChain LangGraph CrewAI AutoGen

ML / Deep Learning

PyTorch Keras Scikit-Learn Graph Neural Networks Computer Vision NLP

Backend

Python Django FastAPI Flask Java Spring Boot ASP.NET

Frontend

React TypeScript JavaScript HTML/CSS

Data Engineering

PySpark Spark Pandas NumPy ETL Pipelines

Databases

PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Cassandra Firestore S3

Infrastructure

AWS GCP Docker Kubernetes CI/CD Linux

Let's Connect

If my work resonates, I'd like to hear from you. Happy to talk about production AI systems and what you're building.