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Available for full-time & contract · Aurora, IL · US Citizen

I ship full-stack AI products that actually go to production.

Full-Stack AI Engineer & Prompt Engineer. From LLM evaluation and safety rubrics to React, Node, Python, AWS, and Azure — I solve messy business problems and deliver complete systems.

5+ years shipping product
Meta LLM eval & prompt engineering
1st ARDA 2022 award — Marriott
AI Azure OpenAI · LangChain · RAG

Selected work

The work hiring managers actually care about.

Production AI, enterprise frontend, and full-stack delivery — not tutorial demos.

2024 Azure OpenAI

AI chatbot suite

Built customizable AI assistants on Azure OpenAI — scheduling, order-taking, and bot-builder flows that persist in the cloud and export into other apps.

  • Azure OpenAI
  • React
  • Bot builder
2024 Voice AI

Voice-activated appointment scheduler

Clients book and cancel services over the phone. Twilio + Python backend, React frontend, NLP voice interpretation, and automated scheduling logic.

  • Twilio
  • Python
  • NLP
  • React
2024 SaaS · AWS

Cloud AI management dashboard

Real-time business intelligence for SaaS clients: KPIs, analytics, and metrics with a responsive React UI, error handling, and AWS-backed data.

  • React
  • AWS
  • Data viz
2022 Enterprise

React architecture — Northern Trust

Modern React components with hooks, Redux, and Saga for an enterprise financial platform. Jest/Enzyme coverage, API integrations, loading states, and data filtration.

  • React
  • Redux + Saga
  • Jest
2021 – 2022 ARDA 1st Place

Points system platform — Marriott Vacations

End-to-end points management from concept to production: full CRUD, 100% W3C accessibility, and dynamic UI. Awarded 1st place at ARDA 2022.

  • JavaScript
  • Accessibility
  • CRUD

Experience

A track record of shipping, not just consulting decks.

  1. Full-Stack AI Engineer

    Z Full-Stack AI Solutions

    Own LLM evaluation, prompt engineering, Azure OpenAI chatbots, voice scheduling, SaaS dashboards, and enterprise React architecture for clients including Meta, Northern Trust, and Marriott Vacations.

  2. Web Developer

    CompuSystems · Downers Grove, IL

    Trade exhibitor JSP sites, JavaScript/jQuery forms, SQL troubleshooting, registration and payment flows, and business rules for pricing and discounts.

  3. Software Engineer

    Photon Infotech · Walgreens Boots Alliance, Deerfield, IL

    Microservices migration from Angular to jQuery/React with a Spring Boot backend. SonarQube style-guide coverage and AJAX activity-log features.

Stack

The tools I use to go from idea to shipped product.

Front-end

React, Next.js, Redux, Saga, TanStack, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, JSP

AI / LLM

Prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, NLP, ML, Azure OpenAI

Back-end & cloud

Python, Node.js, Nest.js, PHP, MongoDB, SQL, NoSQL, AWS, Azure, BigQuery, Twilio

Quality

Jest, Enzyme, Git, accessibility (W3C), production debugging, CMS performance

About

I work fast. I communicate clearly. I get the job done.

I’m Fahad Zakir — a Full-Stack AI Engineer based in Aurora, Illinois. I build complete solutions: model eval, prompt systems, APIs, and interfaces that real users can operate.

Teams hire me when they need someone who can sit with a messy problem, design the architecture, and still write the React and Python that ships.

College of DuPage / Lewis University

Software Development Degree — in progress

General Assembly

Software Engineering Immersive Certificate · 2018

Fahad Zakir, Full-Stack AI Engineer
Aurora, IL · Open to on-site, hybrid, or remote

Also built

Personal products & experiments.

Contact

Let’s build something that ships.

If you need a full-stack AI engineer who can own evaluation, product UI, and backend delivery — I’m ready.