Principal Engineer & Technical Lead | Azure AI & Cloud
Shaik Muzammil Ahmed
I've been writing software for over a decade — currently as a Principal Engineer building AI and full-stack products that run at real scale on Azure and cloud platforms (think 3M+ documents/month, trained on data from 120+ countries). When I'm not at the day job, I build my own things end-to-end as a freelancer and founder — from AI video pipelines to event-photo platforms and smart contracts.
Experience
Principal Software Development Engineer
Apr 2024 — Present
M2P Fintech
Senior technical leadership — architecture, AI delivery, and engineering standards across full-stack teams.
- ·Led architecture and end-to-end delivery of production AI and full-stack products for identity-verification and document-automation platforms.
- ·Pioneered Generative AI capabilities — RAG, agentic & multi-agent workflows (MCP, LangGraph), fine-tuning, LLM evaluation & monitoring.
- ·Set technical direction and mentored engineers within regulated (RBI, SOC) environments.
Senior Engineering Manager
Apr 2023 — Mar 2024
M2P Fintech
People & delivery leadership across backend, web, mobile and QA on real-time verification platforms.
- ·Led cross-functional teams owning delivery, quality and release readiness.
- ·Drove significant cloud-cost reduction and scalability via containerized microservices (AWS / GCP, Kubernetes).
- ·Built production AI/ML systems — OCR, document intelligence, face matching, anti-spoof detection.
Lead Software Development Engineer
Feb 2019 — Mar 2023
M2P Fintech
Hands-on technical lead — full-stack platform delivery and engineering modernization.
- ·Architected full-stack platforms in Python and React, spanning PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and S3.
- ·Spearheaded engineering modernization — migration to Linux/AWS, adoption of Docker, CI/CD and code-quality standards.
Full-Stack Developer
Jan 2018 — Feb 2019
LaunchMyICO
End-to-end product development for a trading / transaction platform.
- ·React, Node.js, Express, MongoDB — secure transaction workflows and smart-contract integration.
Web Developer
2016 — 2017
Trescon
Responsive, high-performance websites with SEO and third-party integrations.
Selected Projects
Document Intelligence Platform
Technical Lead · M2P Fintech
Multi-model document intelligence pipeline trained for 120+ countries, live across 10+, processing 3M+ documents/month at 99%+ extraction accuracy.
Face Match & Anti-Spoofing
Technical Lead · Banking & Fintech
High-performance facial recognition platform with 1:1 verification, 1:N identification and iBeta-certified passive anti-spoofing for enterprise KYC.
Video KYC & Digital KYC Suite
Principal SDE · M2P Fintech
Remote onboarding platform powering SBI Cards, VISA, Standard Chartered, UCO Bank and Unity SFB — scaled to 80,000+ verifications/month.
PII Discovery & Privacy Scanner
Principal SDE · Enterprise Data Security
Large-scale PII discovery platform scanning 900M+ records across enterprise databases and storage for centralized visibility into sensitive data.
PerfectClip
Solo Developer · AI Video Generation
Built and operated an AI video platform end-to-end — generated 4M+ personalized videos in 30 days.
Pixalmania
Founder · AI Event Photo Delivery
Founded and solely built an AI event-photo platform that auto-delivers personalized galleries to attendees via facial recognition.
Token Distribution System
Smart Contracts · Web3
End-to-end token distribution platform with vesting, cliffs, airdrops, staking rewards and treasury distributions via smart contracts.
Core Competencies
Generative AI & ML
LLMs (Claude, OpenAI, Azure AI, OSS)·RAG (vector search, reranking, eval)·Agentic & multi-agent (MCP, LangGraph)·Fine-tuning (PyTorch, TensorFlow)·LangChain · LlamaIndex·Vector DBs (PGVector, FAISS)·OCR / document intelligence·Voice (STT/TTS, Whisper)·GPU inference (vLLM, ONNX)
Full-Stack Engineering
Python (FastAPI, Flask, Django)·Node.js · Express · NestJS·React · Next.js · TypeScript·Redux · Context API·Tailwind · Styled Components · MUI
Backend & Architecture
Scalable REST APIs·Microservices · Distributed systems·OAuth · JWT · SSO · Keycloak·Event-driven patterns·Supabase · Directus
Cloud & DevOps
Azure · Azure AI · Azure OpenAI·AWS · GCP · multi-cloud·Docker · Kubernetes·CI/CD · Linux·On-prem / hybrid / cloud·Observability · DevSecOps
Data
PostgreSQL · SQL Server·MongoDB · Elasticsearch·Snowflake·Data modeling·Stored procedures
Leadership
Team leadership & mentoring·Technical direction & architecture·Engineering best practices·Stakeholder engagement·Agile / Scrum
Achievements
- ★Designed and delivered a complete banking portal — 100+ Figma screens in two nights — to meet an aggressive deadline.
- ★Drove the organization's migration from Windows to Linux infrastructure, improving stability and operational efficiency.
- ★Championed and rolled out a modern tech stack across the Abu Dhabi engineering hub — Node.js, React, Python, Mongo, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes.
- ★Planned and executed the migration of 30+ production servers to AWS in 5 days with minimal downtime.
- ★Regained control of a compromised production website, restored operations, and hardened security to prevent recurrence.
Education
B.Com — Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur · 2025
Intermediate (MPC) — Osmania College, Kurnool · 2012