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Academic CV and professional experience, updated August 2026.

Basics

Name Taleef Tamsal
Label Software Engineer | Backend and AI Systems
Email taleeftamsal@hotmail.com
Phone +1 260 515 9571
Url https://taleef7.github.io/
Summary Software engineer who ships production systems and measures whether they work. Rebuilt a healthcare compliance platform as sole developer, published three first-author works on model evaluation, and ran product operations at a startup.

Work

  • 2026.05 - Present
    Software Developer
    Medical Informatics Engineering
    Rebuilt a production healthcare compliance platform's backend from Java 21/Spring Boot to modular TypeScript as sole developer, with zero breaking changes for API clients.
    • Implemented HL7 FHIR R4 EHR interoperability and regulatory exports for eight CMS quality measures, validated against 410 official MADiE test cases, and reported a confirmed reference-engine defect.
    • Designed a resumable batch pipeline over 70,000 PostgreSQL records with bounded memory and per-record failure isolation.
    • Shipped guardrailed AI assistants and read-only MCP tools, backed by 785 automated tests in CI and 43 architecture decision records.
  • 2025.09 - 2026.05
    Product Associate
    Riccle
    Analyzed customer, transaction, and competitor data to shape positioning and channel strategy.
    • Automated go-to-market workflows that cut six hours per week of manual reconciliation.
  • 2025.09 - 2026.05
    Graduate Researcher, Machine Learning Evaluation
    Purdue University Fort Wayne
    Evaluated how adaptation methods and measurement choices affect jailbreak robustness for open-weight language models.
    • Automated SLURM pipelines fine-tuning 25 model configurations across five families with LoRA, QLoRA, full fine-tuning, and 4-bit quantization on A100 and A30 GPUs.
    • Ran an evaluation suite of nearly 600 measurements, exposing a 45.7% false-positive rate in a widely used automated evaluator versus 8.6% for a calibrated alternative.
    • Published three first-author works, including two SemEval-2026 system papers in the ACL Anthology.
  • 2025.05 - 2025.08
    Software Development Intern
    Medical Informatics Engineering
    Built a containerized RAG platform for citation-backed search over enterprise documents.
    • Architected hybrid search and reranking with Node.js, Docker, OpenSearch, Redis, and PostgreSQL over 3,000+ documents at 85%+ context relevance.
    • Exposed REST, MCP, and SSE interfaces with structured citations, JWT/API-key authentication, user-scoped security filters, and OpenTelemetry observability.

Education

  • 2024.08 - 2026.05

    Fort Wayne, IN

    M.S.
    Purdue University Fort Wayne
    Computer Science
    • Master's thesis: Do Efficient Adaptations Reduce Safety? Jailbreak Robustness of PEFT vs. Full Fine-Tuning on Consumer-Accessible LLMs
    • Thesis advisor: Dr. Jonathan Rusert
  • 2020.08 - 2024.05

    Lahore, Pakistan

    B.S.
    Lahore University of Management Sciences
    Computer Science

Publications

Projects

  • 2026.05 - Present
    JobOps Copilot
    Deployed AI job-operations platform on Azure with a Next.js frontend, Express/TypeScript API, and FastAPI agent service.
    • LangGraph multi-agent workflows with tool use and RAG
    • Improved ranking correlation from 0.716 to 0.821
  • 2026.02 - 2026.04
    CorvEd
    Full-stack tutoring operations platform covering intake, payments, matching, and scheduling.
    • Next.js App Router
    • Supabase Postgres
    • Row Level Security
    • PKCE OAuth
  • 2026.05 - Present
    WorkWell Measure Studio
    Production healthcare compliance platform with deterministic CQL evaluation, interoperability, and guarded AI assistance.
    • TypeScript
    • FHIR R4
    • SMART Backend Services
    • CQL
    • MCP
    • PostgreSQL
  • 2026 - Present
    TurboQuant
    PyTorch implementation and evaluation of KV-cache compression for long-context LLM inference.
    • 5.2x validated cache compression
    • Qwen retrieval-safe evaluation through 32K context
    • PyTorch
    • Hugging Face DynamicCache
  • 2025 - Present
    RASS / CoRAG
    Multi-service retrieval platform with asynchronous ingestion, hybrid search, grounded streaming answers, citations, and observability.
    • Node.js
    • OpenSearch
    • Redis
    • PostgreSQL
    • Docker
    • MCP and SSE
  • 2026 - Present
    UNLP 2026 Ukrainian Document QA
    Retrieval-augmented question answering pipeline combining BGE-M3 retrieval, Qwen3 reranking, and Gemma-based multiple-choice answering.
    • Private score 0.8722
    • Ranked 7/15
    • BGE-M3
    • FAISS
    • Qwen3

Certificates

Data Engineering
DeepLearning.AI
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services

Skills

Languages
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
SQL
Java
C#
Bash
C++
Backend & Web
Node.js
Express
FastAPI
Spring Boot
React
Next.js
REST APIs
PostgreSQL
Redis
OpenSearch
AI & Data
PyTorch
Hugging Face
LangChain
LangGraph
MCP
RAG
pgvector
scikit-learn
Pandas
Cloud & Delivery
Azure
AWS
Docker
Git
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
Playwright
Vitest
OpenTelemetry
Agile

Languages

English
Professional working proficiency

Interests

Reliable AI systems
LLM safety
RAG
agents
evaluation
efficient inference