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Muhammad Bilal Iftikhar — Senior Software Engineer and AI Integration Specialist

& AI Integration Specialist

I build AI-powered products end to end — LLM features, retrieval pipelines and agents — and ship them as fast, reliable software.

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Muhammad Bilal Iftikhar, Senior Software Engineer & AI Integration Specialist
Lahore, Pakistan
/ Who I am

About Muhammad Bilal Iftikhar

I'm a senior full-stack engineer with 6+ years of shipping production software, and for the last three of those I've worked almost entirely on applied AI — putting LLMs, retrieval and agents behind clean APIs and interfaces people can actually use.

I care about the parts users never see: predictable latency, sensible architecture, and failure modes that degrade gracefully instead of breaking. Good engineering should be invisible.

Years
Projects
Clients
Full StackAI BuilderProblem SolverOpen Source
/ Toolkit

The stack I build with

01 / 5 tools

Frontend

Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSFramer Motion
02 / 19 tools

AI / ML

OpenAI APIClaude APILangChainLlamaIndexRAG PipelinesPineconeWeaviateChromaDBLLM Fine-tuningHugging FacePrompt EngineeringAI AgentsVoice AIComputer VisionEmbeddingsSemantic SearchFunction CallingMultimodal AIAI Chatbots
03 / 6 tools

Backend

LaravelNode.jsExpressPythonREST APIGraphQL
04 / 5 tools

DevOps

DockerAWSVercelGitHub ActionsCI/CD
05 / 4 tools

Database

PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisSupabase
/ Specialization

BUILDING WITH AI

Not demos — systems running in production, with the evals, cost controls and failure handling that keeps them there.

LLM Integration

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google models wired into production with streaming, tool-calling and cost control.

OpenAIClaudeGemini

RAG Systems

Custom retrieval pipelines — smart chunking, hybrid search and reranking for grounded answers.

ChunkingRerankVector DB

AI Agents

Autonomous multi-step workflows with planning, tool use, and memory that actually finish the job.

PlanningToolsMemory

Voice AI

Real-time speech pipelines — Whisper transcription and ElevenLabs synthesis with low latency.

WhisperElevenLabsSTT/TTS

Enterprise Bots

Multi-turn chatbots with long-term memory, context windows and clean human handoff.

MemoryContextHandoff

Evals & Fine-tune

Custom datasets, fine-tuning and evaluation frameworks so quality is measured, not guessed.

DatasetsEvalRLHF
/ Selected Work

SELECTED WORK

igivu.com01
IGIVU — xr platform built with Next.js, Laravel, WebGL, AWS
XR Platform

IGIVU

End-to-end VR/AR/MR platform serving 3,000+ organizations including Stanford, with synchronized multi-user sessions.

Next.jsLaravelWebGLAWS
Live Site
avleads.com02
AV Leads — talent network built with React, Laravel, Redis, AWS
Talent Network

AV Leads

Networking platform pairing live-event organizers with elite AV engineers via smart matching and real-time job flows.

ReactLaravelRedisAWS
Live Site
poolstore.co.uk03
PoolStore — e-commerce built with Vue.js, Laravel, Stripe
E-Commerce

PoolStore

The UK's leading pool & spa retailer — a high-performance storefront with payments, inventory and faceted search.

Vue.jsLaravelStripe
Live Site
www.sevenlift.net04
SevenLift — rental platform built with Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL
Rental Platform

SevenLift

Enterprise heavy-equipment rental for the UAE with real-time availability, multi-region coverage and booking.

Next.jsNode.jsPostgreSQL
Live Site
/ Journey

EXPERIENCE

2024 — Present

Full Stack Developer — AI Integration

Vocuit · AV Leads

  • ▸Build and run the Next.js + Laravel platform behind a global live-events talent network.
  • ▸Ship LLM-backed features: semantic matching, search and assisted job workflows.
  • ▸Own API design, performance budgets and release delivery end to end.
Next.jsLaravelOpenAIAWS
2022 — 2024

Senior Software Engineer

Algolix Technologies

  • ▸Built Laravel back-ends and React, Next.js and Vue front-ends for client products.
  • ▸Took RAG and LLM-assisted features from prototype through to release.
  • ▸Rewrote the slowest database queries and worked directly with product and design.
LaravelReactLangChainMySQL
2020 — 2022

Software Engineer

Freelance & Agencies

  • ▸Delivered 50+ web apps and storefronts for clients in the UK, UAE and US.
  • ▸Built reusable component libraries and CI/CD pipelines across those projects.
  • ▸Moved from front-end delivery into full-stack ownership and applied AI work.
VueNode.jsStripeDocker
/ Kind Words

TESTIMONIALS

Bilal shipped an LLM assistant into our product that actually scaled. Clean architecture, sharp UX instincts, zero hand-holding.

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Sarah Johnson

CEO, TechStart Inc.

He built our platform end-to-end and layered in AI matching. The code quality and reliability are simply outstanding.

MC

Michael Chen

CTO, AV Leads

Beautiful, fast and conversion-focused. His attention to detail made the entire project feel effortless.

ER

Emily Rodriguez

PM, PoolStore

Complex XR integrations delivered as a robust system serving thousands of orgs. A genuinely senior engineer.

DT

David Thompson

Founder, IGIVU

Our RAG pipeline went from flaky prototype to grounded, citation-backed answers. Exactly the AI partner we needed.

AK

Aisha Khan

Head of Product, NovaAI

/ Get in touch

Let's build something great

Available for freelance projects, full-time roles and AI consulting. Tell me what you're building and what's in the way.

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