Hi, I'm Zaheer K Z

About

ML engineering that ships — not just experiments.

2+ years of building production ML — document AI, GenAI platforms, and microservices that teams actually rely on. The work is real, the results are measurable.

ML Engineer

ML Engineer with hands-on experience across the full lifecycle — from training and evaluation to containerised deployment on Kubernetes.

ML Engineer

I work across the entire ML lifecycle — data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and production deployment. I am currently an AI Engineer at ZS Associates in Bengaluru, after building document AI systems, GenAI platforms, and FastAPI microservices at Neutrinos.

Day to day, I deal with RAG pipelines, async inference queues, PII masking, and the kind of edge cases that only show up in production. I care about systems that are observable, maintainable, and built to last beyond the first release.

Experience

ZS Associates · AI Engineer · Apr 2026 – Present · Bengaluru

ZS Associates — AI Engineer

Apr 27, 2026 – Present · Bengaluru, India

Joined ZS Associates India Private Ltd. as an AI Engineer in the Bengaluru office
Working in a client-first, collaborative AI engineering environment focused on high-quality delivery
Previously completed a Machine Learning Engineer II role at Neutrinos in April 2026

Previous role: Neutrinos — ML Engineer II

Feb 2024 – Apr 2026 · Bengaluru, India. Built document AI, OCR, YOLOv8 field extraction, GenAI guardrails, RAG workflows, and FastAPI/Kubernetes ML services.

Education

BCA · University of Mysore · ML Bootcamp at Brototype, Calicut

Bachelor of Computer Applications

University of Mysore · CGPA: 8.3 / 10 · Graduated 2022

Machine Learning Bootcamp

Brototype, Calicut · Intensive programme covering Generative AI, Computer Vision, NLP, Docker, Kubernetes, and LLM fine-tuning (LoRA / QLoRA)

Coursework aligned directly with what I build at work — not just theory, but skills I applied from day one on the job.

Craft

I build things end to end. That means owning the design, getting it into production, and making sure it does not fall apart six months later.

My focus areas are GenAI platforms, document intelligence, async ML pipelines, and agentic workflows. I care about clean APIs, observable systems, and code that the next engineer can actually read.

PythonFastAPIMongoDBDockerPyTorchTensorFlowKubernetesJenkinsRabbitMQRedisCeleryAWSGitHubMLflowTransformersLangChainOpenCVRAGNLPPythonFastAPIMongoDBDockerPyTorchTensorFlowKubernetesJenkinsRabbitMQRedisCeleryAWSGitHubMLflowTransformersLangChainOpenCVRAGNLP

Currently AI Engineer at ZS Associates, Bengaluru

Based in Bengaluru, India

Currently working at ZS Associates in Bengaluru.

Map: Wikimedia Commons

12.9716° N, 77.5946° E · IST (UTC +5:30)

Mindset

I approach ML engineering the same way I approach sports — with a clear role, team awareness, and a focus on the result, not just the performance.

Outside of work, I mentor ML/AI cohorts, stay current with research, and keep building. Side projects are where I experiment with ideas that are not yet safe to try in production.

Football

Weekend five-a-side leagues

PASSION

Projects

Things I have built and shipped.

Production systems, not just demos. Each project here has gone through real design decisions, debugging, and deployment.

ML Platform

AI-HUB — Intelligent Document Processing Platform

Built an end-to-end document processing platform at Neutrinos that handles classification, extraction, and GenAI tasks — all under one roof. The platform uses AutoML to train models without manual…

Reduced model development time significantly through AutoML automation. Supports thousands of documents per day in async batch mode.

Document AI

Document Field Extraction — YOLOv8 + OCR Pipeline

Built a model that can look at a scanned or digital document — invoices, forms, ID cards — and pull out specific fields like name, date, amount, or reference number with high accuracy. Used YOLOv8…

99% field-level accuracy. Deployed via Seldon Core inference API — plugged into larger document processing pipelines at Neutrinos.

NLP Platform

PaperMate — Personalised arXiv Research Assistant

Built an NLP-powered tool that helps researchers and students stay on top of AI and ML literature — without drowning in new papers every week. PaperMate pulls papers from arXiv across AI, ML, Deep…

User satisfaction improved from 65% to 85% after adding Q&A and summarisation features. Personalised recommendations powered by transformer models and semantic search.

Tech Stack

My Skills

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Testimonials

What they say

Reviews

Team voices

(01)

You are an awesome person to work with. You taught me a lot of things and helped me a lot. Thanks for everything.

— Akash, ML Associate

(02)

Working with you has been good. You are very friendly and always ready to help. Sometimes your explanations can be a bit confusing. It would be better if they are more clear and simple. Overall, it is nice working with you.

— Somashekar, QA Engineer

(03)

Zaheer is personification of dedication.

— Harsh Tripathi, Senior AI/ML Lead

(04)

Zaheer is a great person to work with. He is very friendly and always ready to help.

— Rajesh, SDE

(01)

You are an awesome person to work with. You taught me a lot of things and helped me a lot. Thanks for everything.

— Akash, ML Associate

(02)

— Somashekar, QA Engineer

(03)

Zaheer is personification of dedication.

— Harsh Tripathi, Senior AI/ML Lead

(04)

Zaheer is a great person to work with. He is very friendly and always ready to help.

— Rajesh, SDE

Other

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Resume Snapshot

A local copy of the resume is included so the portfolio stays self-contained.

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Achievements

98% precision on the classifier project, production AI delivery, and ML-focused academic coursework.

See Work

Current Role

Currently working as an AI Engineer at ZS Associates in Bengaluru, India.

Contact

Let's build applied AI that actually ships.

Email Zaheer View Resume

Hi, I'm Zaheer K Z

About

ML engineering that ships — not just experiments.

2+ years of building production ML — document AI, GenAI platforms, and microservices that teams actually rely on. The work is real, the results are measurable.

ML Engineer

ML Engineer with hands-on experience across the full lifecycle — from training and evaluation to containerised deployment on Kubernetes.

ML Engineer

Experience

ZS Associates · AI Engineer · Apr 2026 – Present · Bengaluru

ZS Associates — AI Engineer

Apr 27, 2026 – Present · Bengaluru, India

Joined ZS Associates India Private Ltd. as an AI Engineer in the Bengaluru office
Working in a client-first, collaborative AI engineering environment focused on high-quality delivery
Previously completed a Machine Learning Engineer II role at Neutrinos in April 2026

Previous role: Neutrinos — ML Engineer II

Feb 2024 – Apr 2026 · Bengaluru, India. Built document AI, OCR, YOLOv8 field extraction, GenAI guardrails, RAG workflows, and FastAPI/Kubernetes ML services.

Education

BCA · University of Mysore · ML Bootcamp at Brototype, Calicut

Bachelor of Computer Applications

University of Mysore · CGPA: 8.3 / 10 · Graduated 2022

Machine Learning Bootcamp

Brototype, Calicut · Intensive programme covering Generative AI, Computer Vision, NLP, Docker, Kubernetes, and LLM fine-tuning (LoRA / QLoRA)

Coursework aligned directly with what I build at work — not just theory, but skills I applied from day one on the job.

Craft

I build things end to end. That means owning the design, getting it into production, and making sure it does not fall apart six months later.

My focus areas are GenAI platforms, document intelligence, async ML pipelines, and agentic workflows. I care about clean APIs, observable systems, and code that the next engineer can actually read.

Currently AI Engineer at ZS Associates, Bengaluru

Based in Bengaluru, India

Currently working at ZS Associates in Bengaluru.

Map: Wikimedia Commons

12.9716° N, 77.5946° E · IST (UTC +5:30)

Mindset

I approach ML engineering the same way I approach sports — with a clear role, team awareness, and a focus on the result, not just the performance.

Outside of work, I mentor ML/AI cohorts, stay current with research, and keep building. Side projects are where I experiment with ideas that are not yet safe to try in production.

Football

Weekend five-a-side leagues

PASSION

Projects

Things I have built and shipped.

Production systems, not just demos. Each project here has gone through real design decisions, debugging, and deployment.

ML Platform

AI-HUB — Intelligent Document Processing Platform

Reduced model development time significantly through AutoML automation. Supports thousands of documents per day in async batch mode.

Document AI

Document Field Extraction — YOLOv8 + OCR Pipeline

99% field-level accuracy. Deployed via Seldon Core inference API — plugged into larger document processing pipelines at Neutrinos.

NLP Platform

PaperMate — Personalised arXiv Research Assistant

User satisfaction improved from 65% to 85% after adding Q&A and summarisation features. Personalised recommendations powered by transformer models and semantic search.

Tech Stack

My Skills

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Testimonials

What they say

Reviews

Team voices

(01)

You are an awesome person to work with. You taught me a lot of things and helped me a lot. Thanks for everything.

— Akash, ML Associate

(02)

— Somashekar, QA Engineer

(03)

Zaheer is personification of dedication.

— Harsh Tripathi, Senior AI/ML Lead

(04)

Zaheer is a great person to work with. He is very friendly and always ready to help.

— Rajesh, SDE

(01)

You are an awesome person to work with. You taught me a lot of things and helped me a lot. Thanks for everything.

— Akash, ML Associate

(02)

— Somashekar, QA Engineer

(03)

Zaheer is personification of dedication.

— Harsh Tripathi, Senior AI/ML Lead

(04)

Zaheer is a great person to work with. He is very friendly and always ready to help.

— Rajesh, SDE

Other

More ways to explore the profile.

Resume Snapshot

A local copy of the resume is included so the portfolio stays self-contained.

Open Resume

Achievements

98% precision on the classifier project, production AI delivery, and ML-focused academic coursework.

See Work

Current Role

Currently working as an AI Engineer at ZS Associates in Bengaluru, India.

Contact

Let's build applied AI that actually ships.

Email Zaheer View Resume