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  "profile": {
    "name": "Mohammed Ahmed Paracha",
    "shortName": "Ahmed Paracha",
    "brandName": "Ahmed P.",
    "title": "ML, Gen AI & Forward Deployed Engineer",
    "email": "map.ai@outlook.com",
    "phoneCA": "+1 (647) 242-9068",
    "phonePK": "+92 333 3145702",
    "location": "Toronto, Canada · Karachi, Pakistan",
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/parachaai/",
    "summary": "I build AI that ships. From national-scale RAG systems to AdTech automation — I embed with teams, take prototypes to production, and leave the infrastructure running."
  },
  "typedSpecialties": [
    "ML Engineer",
    "Gen AI Engineer",
    "Forward Deployed Engineer",
    "Agentic AI Builder",
    "Solutions Architect"
  ],
  "stats": [
    { "value": "10", "label": "Years of Experience" },
    { "value": "40k+", "label": "Users Reached" },
    { "value": "1,000+", "label": "Internal Users Served" },
    { "value": "5", "label": "Microsoft Certifications" }
  ],
  "pillars": [
    {
      "title": "Agentic AI",
      "text": "End-to-end RAG pipelines and agentic AI workflows with LangChain and LangGraph — orchestration, tracing, and evaluation included."
    },
    {
      "title": "Forward Deployed",
      "text": "Embedded directly with enterprise clients to take AI solutions from prototype to production, on cloud or in-house servers."
    },
    {
      "title": "MLOps & LLMOps",
      "text": "Model serving, observability, CI/CD automation, and AI platform governance across Azure and AWS."
    },
    {
      "title": "Business Impact",
      "text": "12% revenue increase from pairing models at Afiniti, 15% forecasting accuracy gains for Estée Lauder, 40,000+ users reached."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "role": "Director of AI",
      "company": "Utopia Brands",
      "period": "Sep 2025 — May 2026",
      "points": [
        "Built and led the AI team shipping production systems end-to-end",
        "POC Amazon Campaign Manager with real-time bid automation",
        "AI tooling for Product & Media teams — less manual content and campaign work",
        "GEO / AEO for brand sites and Amazon listings",
        "Computer vision QA on a fabric inspection line"
      ],
      "tech": ["Python", "LangChain", "LangGraph", "Computer Vision", "AWS"]
    },
    {
      "role": "Principal Data Science Consultant",
      "company": "Systems Limited",
      "period": "Jan 2025 — Sep 2025",
      "points": [
        "Enterprise RAG + ReAct chatbot for Saudi Ministry of Tourism (LangChain, Neo4j, Azure)",
        "VLM & face-recognition FastAPI services for 1,000+ internal users",
        "MLOps / LLMOps pipelines — CI/CD, versioning, observability on Azure"
      ],
      "tech": ["LangChain", "LangGraph", "Neo4j", "Azure AI Foundry", "FastAPI"]
    },
    {
      "role": "Senior Data Science Consultant",
      "company": "Systems Limited",
      "period": "Apr 2022 — Dec 2024",
      "points": [
        "Arabic LLMs (LLaMA) on Azure ML GPU clusters — lower latency, better utilization",
        "Estée Lauder forecasting on Databricks — +15% accuracy",
        "Clinical documentation research: SOAP notes and medical coding automation",
        "Power BI dashboards over multi-billion-dollar datasets"
      ],
      "tech": ["Azure ML", "Azure Databricks", "PyTorch", "Power BI"]
    },
    {
      "role": "Senior Software Engineer — Data Analytics",
      "company": "Afiniti",
      "period": "Jan 2021 — Apr 2022",
      "points": [
        "Customer–agent pairing models in production — +12% client revenue",
        "Greenplum pipeline migration — cut processing by 5+ hours",
        "Reusable Python feature extraction for batch and real-time flows"
      ],
      "tech": ["Python", "PostgreSQL", "Greenplum"]
    },
    {
      "role": "Lead Product Development",
      "company": "Stemers",
      "period": "Sep 2015 — Dec 2020",
      "points": [
        "Led AI educational robotics kits — hardware to mass production",
        "EdTech products reaching 40,000+ users in Pakistan"
      ],
      "tech": ["Python", "Embedded", "Computer Vision"]
    },
    {
      "role": "Focal Person for Pakistan",
      "company": "Global Robot Cluster (Volunteer)",
      "period": "Jan 2020 — Present",
      "points": [
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      ],
      "tech": []
    }
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      "name": "Amazon Campaign Management System",
      "domain": "AdTech · Automation",
      "image": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1460925895917-afdab827c52f?w=800&h=500&fit=crop",
      "problem": "Active Amazon ad campaigns needed continuous optimization that manual workflows couldn't keep up with.",
      "built": "A proof-of-concept campaign management platform with backend infrastructure for high-frequency data ingestion and real-time bid adjustments.",
      "impact": "Demonstrated automated campaign operations end-to-end and anchored Utopia Brands' AdTech automation roadmap.",
      "tech": ["Python", "AWS", "Amazon Ads API"]
    },
    {
      "name": "RAG Chatbot with ReAct Agent — Ministry of Tourism, Saudi Arabia",
      "domain": "GenAI · Knowledge Graphs",
      "image": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1677442136019-21780ecad995?w=800&h=500&fit=crop",
      "problem": "The Ministry needed reliable, grounded answers over large tourism knowledge bases for strategy and operations.",
      "built": "An enterprise-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation system with a ReAct agent chatbot — LangChain and LangGraph for orchestration, tracing, and evaluation, with Neo4j Knowledge Graphs and Azure AI Foundry powering the retrieval pipeline.",
      "impact": "Grounded, traceable answers informing strategy and operations at a national ministry.",
      "tech": ["LangChain", "LangGraph", "Neo4j", "Azure AI Foundry"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Fabric AI Inspection Machine",
      "domain": "Computer Vision · Manufacturing",
      "image": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1555949963-aa79dcee981c?w=800&h=500&fit=crop",
      "problem": "Manual quality assurance on manufactured cloth was slow and inconsistent.",
      "built": "Reverse engineered a fabric inspection machine and integrated computer vision for automated defect detection in production workflows.",
      "impact": "Automated QA on manufactured cloth, embedded directly into the production line.",
      "tech": ["Computer Vision", "Python", "Embedded"]
    },
    {
      "name": "VLM & Face Recognition Microservices",
      "domain": "Computer Vision · MLOps",
      "image": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1531746790731-6c087fecd65a?w=800&h=500&fit=crop",
      "problem": "Enterprise applications needed secure, accurate facial recognition with production-grade availability.",
      "built": "AI-powered FastAPI microservices using Vision-Language Models and Face Recognition, deployed with high availability and real-time inference.",
      "impact": "Serves 1,000+ internal users in production.",
      "tech": ["VLMs", "FastAPI", "Docker", "Azure"]
    }
  ],
  "skillCircles": [
    { "name": "Python", "percent": 95 },
    { "name": "PyTorch", "percent": 90 },
    { "name": "LangChain", "percent": 90 },
    { "name": "Azure", "percent": 90 },
    { "name": "AWS", "percent": 85 },
    { "name": "Docker", "percent": 85 }
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    {
      "title": "Languages & Frameworks",
      "skills": ["Python", "SQL", "PyTorch", "TensorFlow", "LangChain", "LangGraph", "LangSmith", "FastAPI", "REST APIs"]
    },
    {
      "title": "AI & ML",
      "skills": ["Large Language Models (LLMs)", "Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)", "Agentic AI", "Agentic Workflows", "Model Context Protocol (MCP)", "AI Development Kit (ADK)", "Embeddings", "Vector Search", "Computer Vision", "NLP", "Predictive Modeling", "Time-Series Forecasting"]
    },
    {
      "title": "Cloud & Infrastructure",
      "skills": ["Azure AI Foundry", "Azure ML", "Azure Databricks", "Azure Cognitive Search", "AWS", "Docker", "Model Serving", "Inference Pipelines", "Batch & Real-Time Inference", "Scalable Infrastructure"]
    },
    {
      "title": "MLOps & DevOps",
      "skills": ["MLOps", "LLMOps", "CI/CD Automation", "Azure DevOps", "Git", "Observability & Monitoring", "GenAI Pipeline Governance", "Cost Optimization"]
    },
    {
      "title": "Data & Visualization",
      "skills": ["Neo4j", "Knowledge Graphs", "Power BI"]
    },
    {
      "title": "Domain",
      "skills": ["HealthTech", "AdTech (Amazon Ads API)", "Financial Forecasting", "Computer Vision"]
    }
  ],
  "services": [
    {
      "title": "Agentic AI Development",
      "text": "Autonomous agents and multi-step agentic workflows built with LangChain and LangGraph — with the orchestration, tracing, and evaluation to run them in production."
    },
    {
      "title": "LLM & RAG Engineering",
      "text": "Production deployment of Large Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems grounded in your data, from vector search to knowledge graphs."
    },
    {
      "title": "MLOps & Cloud Architecture",
      "text": "End-to-end ML pipelines on Azure and AWS — CI/CD automation, model serving, observability, and AI platform governance."
    },
    {
      "title": "Computer Vision Solutions",
      "text": "Deep-learning vision systems — from automated industrial inspection to face recognition and Vision-Language Model applications."
    }
  ],
  "achievements": [
    {
      "title": "5× Microsoft Certified",
      "org": "Microsoft",
      "note": "Azure AI Engineer, Azure Data Scientist, AI Fundamentals, Fabric Analytics & Data Engineer"
    },
    {
      "title": "Focal Person for Pakistan",
      "org": "Global Robot Cluster",
      "note": "National technical liaison representing Pakistani engineering since 2020"
    },
    {
      "title": "40,000+ Users Reached",
      "org": "Stemers",
      "note": "AI-based educational robotics kits shipped from ideation to mass production"
    }
  ],
  "pricing": [
    {
      "name": "Hourly",
      "price": "$99",
      "unit": "Per Hour",
      "included": ["One-time contract", "Flexible scope", "Source files included"],
      "excluded": ["Ongoing support", "Free updates"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Project Basis",
      "price": "$69",
      "unit": "Per Hour",
      "included": ["Fixed deliverables", "Flexible contract", "Source files included", "Support during project"],
      "excluded": ["Free updates"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Monthly Retainer",
      "price": "$39",
      "unit": "Per Hour",
      "included": ["Dedicated hours", "Flexible contract", "Source files included", "Ongoing support", "Free updates"],
      "excluded": []
    }
  ],
  "testimonials": [],
  "faq": [
    {
      "q": "What AI services does Mohammed Ahmed Paracha offer?",
      "a": "Agentic AI development with LangChain and LangGraph, LLM deployment and RAG engineering, MLOps/LLMOps pipeline implementation, computer vision solutions, and end-to-end machine learning systems for enterprises — from prototype to production."
    },
    {
      "q": "Can Ahmed Paracha build RAG chatbots and LLM applications?",
      "a": "Yes. Ahmed led the engineering of an enterprise-grade RAG system with a ReAct agent chatbot for the Ministry of Tourism Saudi Arabia, built with LangChain, LangGraph, Neo4j knowledge graphs, and Azure AI Foundry."
    },
    {
      "q": "Does Ahmed Paracha work with Azure and AWS?",
      "a": "Yes. Ahmed is Microsoft-certified five times over (Azure AI Engineer, Azure Data Scientist, AI Fundamentals, Fabric Analytics Engineer, Fabric Data Engineer) and has shipped production AI systems on both Azure and AWS."
    },
    {
      "q": "What is Ahmed Paracha's experience with Agentic AI?",
      "a": "As Director of AI at Utopia Brands he led enterprise-wide GenAI automation, including agentic workflows and AI-powered internal tooling built with LangChain and LangGraph, plus GEO/AEO initiatives for AI-driven search visibility."
    },
    {
      "q": "Where is Ahmed Paracha available for work?",
      "a": "Globally, with a presence in Toronto, Canada (+1 647 242-9068) and Karachi, Pakistan (+92 333 3145702). He works with clients across North America, the Middle East, and Asia."
    },
    {
      "q": "What industries has Ahmed Paracha worked in?",
      "a": "AdTech (Amazon campaign management), tourism (Ministry of Tourism Saudi Arabia), beauty and retail (Estée Lauder), telecommunications (Afiniti), manufacturing (fabric inspection), HealthTech, and education technology (Stemers robotics)."
    },
    {
      "q": "How can I hire Ahmed Paracha?",
      "a": "Email map.ai@outlook.com, call +1 (647) 242-9068 (Canada) or +92 333 3145702 (Pakistan), use the contact form on this site, or connect on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/parachaai."
    }
  ],
  "certifications": [
    { "name": "Azure AI Engineer", "level": "Associate" },
    { "name": "Azure Data Scientist", "level": "Associate" },
    { "name": "Azure AI Fundamentals", "level": "Certified" },
    { "name": "Fabric Analytics Engineer", "level": "Associate" },
    { "name": "Fabric Data Engineer", "level": "Associate" }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "degree": "MS in Computer Science",
      "school": "Institute of Business Administration, Karachi",
      "period": "2016 — 2019"
    },
    {
      "degree": "BE in Electrical Engineering",
      "school": "National University of Sciences and Technology, Karachi",
      "period": "2011 — 2015"
    }
  ]
}
