The Work · Issue 01 · 2026
Sajid Miya
The LeadAgentic SystemsRAGKnowledge Infrastructure

AI/LLM engineer
building agentic systems
that survive
production.

By Sajid MiyaPatiala, IndiaOriginally NepalOpen to roles

AI/LLM engineer focused on agentic systems, RAG, and knowledge infrastructure. Three shipped full-stack AI products and independent research on transformer-based pronunciation assessment.

Stack: Python, FastAPI, the LangChain / LangGraph ecosystem. I have shipped RAG pipelines over FAISS, ChromaDB, and Pinecone, and wired enough APIs to know that the integration is the product.

3

AI products shipped, end-to-end

1.5 yr

Building agentic systems in production

0.754

Sentence fluency Pearson (HiPPA)

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§01

About

The short version.

I build AI systems that survive contact with production. Most of my work is around agentic systems, retrieval, and the boring infrastructure that makes LLMs usable — versioning, permissions, evaluation, observability.

Stack: Python, FastAPI, the LangChain / LangGraph ecosystem. I have shipped RAG pipelines over FAISS, ChromaDB, and Pinecone, and wired enough APIs to know that the integration is the product.

I write runbooks before code. If a system cannot be debugged at 2am, it does not ship. If a model change cannot be evaluated, it does not deploy.

“I write runbooks before code. If a system cannot be debugged at 2am, it does not ship.”

— Sajid Miya

§02

Capabilities

What I do.

The verbs come first. Tools are how I get there.

01

AI & LLMs

  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • Deep Agents
  • Ollama
  • MCP
  • Agent Workflows
  • Tool Calling
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Context Engineering

02

Retrieval & Knowledge

  • Agentic RAG
  • GraphRAG
  • Self-RAG
  • Corrective RAG
  • RAPTOR
  • LightRAG
  • HippoRAG
  • Vector Search

03

Languages & Backend

  • Python
  • C++
  • C
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • REST APIs

04

ML & Data

  • Scikit-learn
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • NLP
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • FAISS
  • ChromaDB
  • Pinecone
  • Docker
  • AWS

Stack

Python · FastAPI · LangGraph

Vectors

FAISS · Chroma · Pinecone

Deploy

Docker · AWS · PostgreSQL

§03

Field Record

What I've shipped.

Three full-stack AI products. Reverse chronological.

01

2026

Independent

NexHire

Creator · AI-Native Hiring Platform

End-to-end recruitment platform — job posting through offer — with LLM-driven screening, matching, scheduling, and email.

  • 4 third-party API integrations
  • Subscription billing live
  • Multi-tenant data isolation
  • Automated resume screening, candidate matching, interview scheduling, and email generation using LLMs, RAG, and agentic workflows.
  • Integrated Google Calendar, Gmail, Slack, and Stripe for scheduling, communication, team notifications, and subscription billing.
  • Stack: React, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, JWT.
ReactFastAPIPostgreSQLRedisDockerJWTStripeVisitRead case study

02

2026

Independent

SynapseLearn

Creator · Conversational AI Tutor

Desktop AI learning platform with multi-user auth, RAG over PDFs and web, and persistent memory threads.

  • Dual-vector retrieval (FAISS + ChromaDB)
  • Multi-user concurrent sessions
  • Memory-aware threads
  • Built secure authentication and conversation management for multiple concurrent users.
  • Designed a RAG pipeline over PDFs and web resources using FAISS + ChromaDB with contextual retrieval.
  • Shipped memory-aware chat — persistent threads, session tracking, conversation merging — plus an admin dashboard.
PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLElectronFAISSChromaDBVisit

03

2025

Independent

Portfolio Agent

Creator · Local-First AI Assistant

Privacy-first AI assistant. Zero external API dependency. Fully local multi-modal.

  • Fully local — zero cloud calls
  • Vision + tool calling
  • Persistent long-term memory
  • Built with FastAPI, LangGraph, Ollama, and SQLite — real-time streaming chat with no cloud calls.
  • Designed persistent SQLite + JSON long-term memory for coherent context across sessions.
  • Added vision input, tool calling, and dynamic model orchestration for fully local multi-modal deployment.
FastAPILangGraphOllamaSQLite

§04

Research

HiPPA.

Hierarchical multi-task transformer for pronunciation assessment on SpeechOcean762 — extending the benchmark's coverage beyond its phoneme-only baseline.

Venue
SpeechOcean762 benchmark
Task
Pronunciation Assessment
Architecture
Hierarchical MT-Transformer
Honest framing
Beyond phoneme baseline

HiPPA — Hierarchical Multi-Task Transformer for Pronunciation Assessment

Independently built a hierarchical multi-task transformer pipeline for pronunciation assessment on SpeechOcean762, extending the benchmark's coverage beyond its phoneme-only baseline.

Established transformer blocks (WavLM, cross-attention, multi-task learning, CTC) applied to a benchmark whose official baseline only covers phoneme-level scoring.

Read paper (PDF)

Headline metric

0.000

Sentence fluency Pearson

+67%relative to the baseline(0.450 → 0.754)
#MetricPearson
02Sentence prosody Pearson0.737
03Sentence total Pearson0.697

The trade-off: a small drop on phoneme-level scoring (0.450 → 0.396), in exchange for three new metrics the benchmark did not previously support — word total, sentence prosody, sentence fluency.

§05

Credentials

Schools & scholarships.

The academic record behind the work.

Academic

  • 01

    2023 — 2027

    Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology

    B.E. Computer Science and Engineering

    Score8.68 / 10 CGPAPatiala, Punjab
  • 02

    2021 — 2023

    St. Xavier's College, Maitighar

    School Leaving Certificate (SLC)

    Score3.66 / 4 GPAKathmandu, Nepal
  • 03

    2021

    The Old Capital Secondary School

    Secondary Education Examination (SEE)

    Score3.95 / 4 GPARaniban, Gorkha, Nepal

Awards

  • COMPEX Scholarship — Government of India (EdCIL)

    2023 — Present

    Competitively awarded merit scholarship for Nepalese students studying in India. Covers full tuition and hostel at Thapar.