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Academic CV and professional experience, updated August 2026.
Basics
| Name | Taleef Tamsal |
| Label | Software Engineer | Backend and AI Systems |
| 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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2020.08 - 2024.05 Lahore, Pakistan
Publications
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2026 Do Efficient Adaptations Reduce Safety? Jailbreak Robustness of PEFT vs. Full Fine-Tuning on Consumer-Accessible LLMs
Purdue University Fort Wayne master's thesis
Master's thesis on adaptation methods, jailbreak robustness, evaluator disagreement, and safety-efficiency trade-offs in consumer-accessible LLMs.
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2026 PFW Task 8 at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Lightweight Tri-Fusion Retrieval with Prompt-Engineered Faithful Generation for Multi-Turn RAG
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
First-author MTRAGEval system paper; the system ranked 6/26 on Task B.
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2026 PFW at SemEval-2026 Task 6: Multi-Seed DeBERTa Ensembles for Political Response Clarity and Evasion Classification
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
First-author system paper for CLARITY; the system ranked 18/41 on clarity and 12/33 on evasion.
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2026 Your Judge Is a Confound: Evaluator and Attack Choice Distort Jailbreak-Safety Measurement for Fine-Tuned LLMs
AdvML-Frontiers × CoTMA Workshop, COLM 2026
Accepted first-author paper on how evaluator and attack choice distort jailbreak-safety measurement for fine-tuned LLMs.
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 |
| Data Engineer Associate | ||
| Databricks |
| 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 | ||||||