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ybakhan/README.md 
$ whoami

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  Senior Software Engineer  ·  Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦

  · 12 years across AI-driven Analytics, E-commerce & Multimedia Comms
  · Expert in Go, Kubernetes & AWS — RESTful APIs and event-driven systems
  · Deploying and scaling self-hosted LLMs and Agentic AI in production
  · MS in Artificial Intelligence (in progress) · 3× AWS Certified
  · Driven by distributed systems, microservices, and cutting infra costs

$ cat skills.txt

Languages

Go Python Java C# TypeScript JavaScript

AI / ML

HuggingFace FastAPI

Databases

PostgreSQL Redis MongoDB Elasticsearch Snowflake SQL Server

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Docker Kubernetes Helm Terraform Vault

CI / CD

GitHub Actions GitLab CircleCI Jenkins

$ cat experience.log
  2025 – 2026  │ Qlik Inc.       Sr. Software Engineer
               │   → Migrated AWS Bedrock to self-hosted open-source LLMs on K8s
               │   → Scale-to-zero GPU strategy — slashed infra costs by 90%
               │   → Integrated LLM inference with Go & Python for Agentic apps

  2023 – 2025  │ Points.com      Sr. Software Engineer
               │   → Architected cloud-native SaaS loyalty platform → $12M engagements
               │   → Stack: Go · Redis · Postgres · K8s · AWS · Terraform · Vault
               │   → Credential mgmt service: GDPR-compliant, 70% data exposure risk ↓

  2021 – 2023  │ Qlik Inc.       Sr. Software Engineer
               │   → Data Analytics SaaS: Go · Java · Spring Boot · NATS · MongoDB · AWS
               │   → Event-driven user metrics: sub-second processing, 80% latency ↓
               │   → CI/CD on CircleCI — 50% faster deployments, 85%+ code coverage

  2017 – 2021  │ IBM Canada      Staff Software Engineer
               │   → Cognos Analytics microservices: Java · WebSphere · IBM Cloud
               │   → Recommendation engine: 20+ chart types, zero manual config
               │   → NLQ Smart Assistant via Stanford CoreNLP
               │   → Kafka-based indexing pipeline — 10× throughput increase

  2014 – 2017  │ Mitel Networks  Software Engineer
               │   → Contact Centre solutions: C# · TypeScript · Angular · SQL Server
               │   → Elasticsearch integration — 70% search responsiveness improvement

$ ls ~/projects/
Project Description Stack
llm-service Production REST API serving HuggingFace LLMs with HPA & load testing FastAPI Docker K8s Helm
onprem-rag On-premise bilingual RAG system for document Q&A with safety guardrails Python RAG LLM
llm-finetuning-uml-antipatterns Fine-tuning compact LLMs to detect structural antipatterns in UML diagrams HuggingFace Fine-tuning
lecture-notes-sa Real-time lecture transcription with AI-powered Q&A Python Speech AI
distributed-leader-election Simulation of 6 classic leader election algorithms on a concurrent ring C# Distributed Systems
MuAtl Mutation testing tool for ATL model transformations (research artifact) Research Testing 
$ cat certifications.txt
  ✓  AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate     Dec 2024
  ✓  AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate      Nov 2024
  ✓  AWS Certified Developer – Associate                Sep 2024

$ cat education.txt
  [in progress]  MS in Artificial Intelligence   Florida Atlantic University   2027
                 MS in Computer Science           University of Ottawa          2015
                 MS in Software Engineering       University of Petroleum & Minerals  2013
                 BS in Computer Science           University of Petroleum & Minerals  2011

$ cat contact.txt
  email    │  ybakhan@gmail.com
  github   │  github.com/ybakhan
  linkedin │  linkedin.com/in/yasser-k-39128715
  loc      │  Ottawa, Canada

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