Waseem Akram

Staff Software Engineer — Systems & Applied AI
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Executive Profile

Hands-on Staff Software Engineer and CTO with 7+ years of experience building high-reliability backend systems, developer tooling, and applied AI pipelines. Creator of HyperDjango (server-driven framework with native Server-Sent Events and automated Vite asset pipelines). Architected and shipped core features for enterprise applications—including Rezolution Engine, where high-throughput extraction and monitoring pipelines processed over 1,000,000 court cases via Vision LLMs at slashed cloud costs, serving institutional users across major nationalized banks. Combines production engineering rigor (automated regression test suites, containerized Trivy security gating) with first-principles mechanistic understanding of neural networks (gradients, self-attention), LLM fine-tuning (LoRA, post-training alignment), and systems internals.

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Featured Open Source

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Professional Experience

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Charing Cross Capital

Technical builder alongside CEO; architected core backend platforms, enterprise gateways, and document intelligence pipelines while establishing company-wide CI/CD testing and container security standards.

Enterprise Document Intelligence & Applied AI
  • Rezolution Engine (Insolvency Platform & SaaS): Built high-throughput ingestion and extraction pipeline parsing 10,000+ dense legal documents and extracting 1,000,000+ court cases from NCLT cause lists nationwide using Cloud Vision LLMs.
  • Two-Tier Cost Optimization: Implemented on-device Tesseract OCR to evaluate page layouts and prune non-pertinent pages before calling Cloud Vision LLMs, reducing token consumption and API costs by 50–60%.
  • Entity Extraction: Integrated GLiNER for zero-shot Named Entity Recognition to accurately extract corporate debtor names from noisy court transcripts.
  • Watchlist Alert System: Built automated litigation monitoring engine that matches court cases against company watchlists and dispatches real-time alerts (10,000+ match notifications delivered; utilized by institutions including State Bank of India and Central Bank of India).
  • Internal Lead Generation Engine: Automated filtering of daily extracted cause lists to identify pronouncement cases, flagging imminent admissions as early leads for insolvency professionals before public notices circulate.
  • Document Security: Built tamper-evident dynamic PDF watermarking (user ID, audit trail) in production; engineered TrustTunnel (automated PII/PHI redaction) and Tetrahedron (knowledge retrieval prototype).
B2B Enterprise Gateways & Automation Workflows
  • Optik Invoice (Touchless AP Automation): Built automated Accounts Payable pipeline ingesting supplier invoices from email → Vision LLM extraction → cXML mapping → direct automated injection into SAP Ariba. Designed an extensible plugin rule-engine for company-specific tax and accounting logic.
  • ProcureMesh (Universal PunchOut Gateway): Architected middleware bridging consumer e-commerce platforms (Shopify, WooCommerce) to enterprise procurement networks (SAP Ariba Supplier Business Network) using bidirectional cXML PunchOut protocols.
  • SmoothPay (Reconciliation & Cryptographic Signing): Automated weekly invoice reconciliation for 5,000+ fragmented invoices/week across multiple client systems. Built multi-tier verification workflows and in-platform cryptographic PDF signing, reducing manual labor by 80% (cutting turnaround from 5 days to 1 day).
Engineering Rigor, Cloud Infrastructure & Security
  • CI/CD Quality & Security Gates: Instituted comprehensive test-driven deployment pipelines: pre-merge linting, automated regression testing, and container vulnerability scanning via Trivy before automated production promotion.
  • Enterprise Multi-Cloud Ops: Deployed and operated services on SAP BTP Kyma (Kubernetes) and AWS, ensuring strict enterprise tenant boundary isolation for corporate clients including UHN. Orchestrated self-hosted Docker/Compose stacks (PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Caddy) maintaining 99%+ uptime.
  • Technical Mentorship: Guided team members across code quality, API contract design, and transitioning low-code workflows into maintainable engineering practices.
Founder & Lead Developer
Waak Labs
  • Brickell.com: Architected luxury real estate platform from scratch in Django, HTMX, Alpine.js, Vite, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Caddy. Handled 20K+ monthly visitors, reduced bounce rate by 50%, and built interactive polygon map search with automated neighborhood statistical trends.
  • Rezolution Engine (Early AI Prototype): Designed and deployed GPT-3.5 chatbot API integrated with pgvector for semantic document retrieval over the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC).
  • WeBridge.app: Designed and built video resume platform for HR candidate shortlisting, featuring invite-only candidate portals and automated screening workflows.
Lead Software Engineer
Laagom
  • Allospaces.com: Scaled co-working marketplace operating across 13 countries and 500+ space partners (500+ MAU). Built inventory management, credit systems, partner admin dashboards, and Stripe subscription billing.
  • Contento AI: Built early GPT-3 content generator for real estate developers with automated Stripe monetization and Rewardful affiliate tracking.
  • JobSkills.in: Architected multi-tenant government skill development platform for MPBCDC using Django and AWS Elastic Beanstalk, supporting attendance tracking, multilingual workflows, and student/trainer verification.
  • Adwiser: Built insurance grievance management and claim gap-analysis platform (Django, React Native, Twilio, AWS SES).
iOS App Developer
Contract & Indie Engineering
  • Agency & Contract iOS Engineering: Built native iOS applications in Swift and Objective-C across Doodleblue Innovations, Femargent, and Learn America LMS. Implemented custom UI interactions, LMS exam engines, real-time messaging, and in-app Stripe payment flows.
  • Indie Tools: Authored Tempbox (open-source macOS disposable email utility in SwiftUI/Combine), Klip Kutter (Android video slicer with FFmpeg), and Facepass (iOS facial recognition utility via OpenCV).
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Technical Expertise & Foundations

Languages & Backend
Python, Django, Django REST Framework, Celery, JavaScript / TypeScript, Vite, Alpine.js, HTMX, SQL, Bash/Zsh.
Production AI Systems
Vision LLMs (document extraction), GLiNER (Zero-Shot Named Entity Recognition), Tesseract OCR (on-device layout parsing), pgvector, Semantic Search, OpenAI Multimodal Live API.
Mechanistic Deep Learning
First-principles study of neural network gradient flows, backpropagation, multi-head self-attention mechanics, PEFT / LoRA & QLoRA adapter rank decomposition, post-training alignment (DPO, RLHF), and active study of inference engineering (KV-cache management, quantization).
Systems, OS & Security
Automated regression test suites, container security scanning (Trivy), Linux system internals, Nix / nix-darwin reproducible environments, Neovim (Lua), Docker & Docker Compose, Caddy.
Enterprise Integrations
cXML PunchOut Protocol, SAP Ariba, SAP Business Network, SAP BTP Kyma (Kubernetes), AWS (EC2, S3, SES, Beanstalk), Microsoft Graph API, Razorpay, Stripe.
Databases & Caching
PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery distributed task queues, vector search (pgvector).
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Education

B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering
B.S.A Crescent Institute of Science & Technology

Graduated with a cumulative GPA of 8.7 / 10.0. Foundational focus on algorithms, computer architecture, distributed databases, and Unix operating system fundamentals.