Irfan Ali

Irfan Ali — Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI engineer building LLMs, RAG, and agents in production.

I help AI and product teams build the systems behind their products — RAG that returns the right answers, voice features that feel natural, agent pipelines that hold up under real use.

Open to full-time senior AI engineer roles — remote, based in India, working with global teams.

Seven-plus years building AI and data systems. Previously founding AI engineer at Kuration AI in Hong Kong, and the first AI hire at Schneider Electric in India, reporting to the CTO.

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Selected work — Reflecta

A wellness app you can call on the phone. Instead of typing into a journal app you'll never open, you call a number, talk to it for a few minutes, and it listens and helps you reflect. I designed and built the whole thing on my own — the AI, the phone system, the backend, the database.

Voice AI · Telephony · LLM analysis · Production

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Voice-firstReal conversationMemory across callsReflection summaries
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> Open-source Python libraries I've published. Other engineers use these to build their own AI systems — they're free and on PyPI.
AgentEnsemble

Multi-agent orchestration. ReAct, Swarm, Pipeline, Debate, WorkflowGraph patterns. Routing, planning, RAG, cost tracking.

AgentEnsemble PyPI downloads
AgentCare

Voice AI for healthcare. Call intake, structured extraction, missing-data recovery, appointment orchestration, post-call analytics.

AgentCare PyPI downloads
ragfallback

Stop RAG from failing silently. Query rewriting, retrieval confidence scoring, fallback strategies, retry logic.

ragfallback PyPI downloads
RAGNav

Navigation-first RAG for long documents. Routes queries to the right pages, follows cross-references, retrieves coherent evidence.

RAGNav PyPI downloads
scrapeflow-py

Playwright-based web scraping. LLM extraction, hybrid selectors, session persistence, rate limiting, anti-detection.

scrapeflow-py PyPI downloads
AskPandas

Natural-language queries on CSV data using local LLMs. No API keys, no cloud.

AskPandas PyPI downloads
lingo-nlp-toolkit

Lightweight NLP utilities bridging traditional pipelines and transformer-ready workflows.

lingo-nlp-toolkit PyPI downloads
PyroChain

Agentic feature engineering. PyTorch + LangChain agents for multimodal feature extraction.

PyroChain PyPI downloads
toxic-comment-classifier

Deep learning toxicity detection. Per-category scores for obscene language, threats, insults, identity hate.

toxic-comment-classifier PyPI downloads

Also: Stacksift — a B2B domain analyzer built on these patterns. stacksift.in →

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What I build

Production LLM systems — the kind teams rely on after launch, not just in demos. Seven-plus years across startups and enterprise R&D.

RAG systems

Retrieval pipelines that return the right answers — query rewriting, confidence scoring, fallback strategies, and navigation-first retrieval for long documents.

Examples: ragfallback, RAGNav

Agent orchestration

Multi-agent pipelines with ReAct, swarm, pipeline, debate, and workflow patterns. Routing, planning, and cost tracking built for production.

Examples: AgentEnsemble

Voice AI

Phone and in-app voice features — call intake, structured extraction, post-call LLM analysis, and appointment orchestration.

Examples: Reflecta, AgentCare

Multi-provider LLM orchestration

Systems that route across providers, fall back when one fails, and stay reliable under real load — not just demo prompts.

Examples: Production patterns across shipped products

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experience
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> 7+ years building AI and data systems for startups and enterprise
ROLES

  • Independent / DataCortex IQ

    Senior AI Engineer

    Shipped Reflecta (voice-first AI wellness app) and Stacksift (B2B domain analyzer). Maintains open-source Python libraries on PyPI. Open to full-time senior AI engineering roles.

  • Kuration AI

    Founding AI Engineer

    First AI hire at an early-stage B2B startup. Owned the full AI architecture — agent pipelines, RAG, multi-provider LLM orchestration.

  • Luminous Power Technologies (Schneider Electric)

    Senior Manager, Data & Analytics, R&D

    Sole AI hire reporting to the CTO. Built the R&D data and AI function, hired and led a team of three.

  • Lynk

    Data Analytics & Automation

    Analytics and NLP-powered search for an expert-matching platform.

  • brainsfeed

    Head of Data & Analytics

    First data hire. Built the data team to 10+ and shipped an internal NLP-powered research platform.

BUILT_FOR
  • AI search and chatbots that need to be reliable
  • Voice AI on the phone or in apps
  • Multi-step AI agents that hold up in production
  • Data systems for startups and enterprise R&D
India · Previously Hong Kong
about
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> AI engineer · open-source maintainer on PyPI · two published papers
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Irfan Ali
Irfan AliBuilding AI that works in production
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NAME

Irfan Ali

EDUCATION

M.Sc. Data Science & AI, IISER Tirupati · B.Tech CSE, Alliance University · Exchange semester at ISEP, Paris

BACKGROUND

Founding AI engineer at Kuration AI in Hong Kong. First AI hire at Schneider Electric in India, reporting to the CTO. Now building independently and open to full-time senior AI engineering roles.

  • -Open-source Python libraries on PyPI that other engineers use to build AI
  • -Built systems that switch between AI providers automatically when one fails
  • -Two peer-reviewed papers published in 2025
EXPERIENCE
  • Led data and AI teams across India and Hong Kong
  • Built AI systems that real businesses use to make real decisions
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