ZahirChoudhry

AI Engineer

Building ideas that balance quality & performance.

AI Engineer who owns systems end-to-end — from architecture through production — at early-stage, VC-backed AI startups. I build backend infrastructure, APIs, and AI agents operating at scale.

Zahir Choudhry

Featured Projects

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Bullhorn Agentic Dashboard

An agentic dashboard integration built on top of the Bullhorn ATS

Python · FastAPI · Hybrid Semantic Search · Agentic Pipeline · Next.js · PostgreSQL · RAG · Typescript · CI/CD · LLM Evaluation

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02

Chatbot-Security

LLM trust & safety testing framework: a FastAPI chatbot with a mock RAG pipeline and an automated adversarial test suite, pairing an intentionally insecure endpoint against a hardened one to validate defenses against untrusted input.

Python · FastAPI · Prompt-Injection Defense · RAG

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Latest Writing

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Dear Recruiters

A little more about me, what I like to work on, and how I work with people.

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Building an Agentic ATS System

An AI sourcing pipeline that integrates a legacy ATS

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Building a Chatbot That's Designed to Fail

A live prompt-injection sandbox comparing an unguarded RAG chatbot against a hardened one — same backend, two very different outcomes.

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PythonTypeScriptJavaAgentic Workflows (LangGraph, MCP)Agentic System DesignRAG / Hybrid Semantic SearchPrompt-Injection DefenseFastAPIFlaskNext.jsReactPostgreSQLPineconeDockerAWS (EC2 + CDK) / GCP / AzureSystem DesignAI Coding Tools [Claude, Codex, Cursor]