
SYED ALI HASSAN
Senior AI Architect & Full Stack Engineer
Salary / Daily rate
Cambridge, UK
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
CTO & AI Architect with 8+ years delivering production-grade intelligent systems—RAG chatbots, LLM agentic workflows, and full-stack platforms for global clients. Top Rated Plus on Upwork since 2017 with proven results: 250% sales increase through VR e-commerce, semantic search optimization with AWS Bedrock, and NHS-compliant AI solutions. I transform complex AI/ML challenges into scalable, revenue-driving products using cutting-edge tech stacks.
Work experience
Founder & AI Architect
ElantraTech Ltd
Jan 2017 - Present
9 years 10 months
Cambridge, UK
– Founded and scaled an AI/ML and full-stack consultancy delivering production-grade intelligent systems for global clients. – Core offerings: RAG chatbots, LLM-powered agentic workflows, n8n automation, WordPress, and bespoke AI product development. – Top Rated Plus on Upwork since 2017 — unbroken record across Generative AI, ML, and full-stack projects globally.
AI Engineer & Web Developer
Centre for Applied Carmelite Spirituality (CACS)
Jan 2026 - Present
10 months
Remote
– Designed and built a production-ready website for cacs.org, transforming AI-assisted workflows into a polished, fully deployed platform. – Integrated AI-assisted development tooling to accelerate delivery and maintain long-term platform scalability.
AI Engineer - Embeddings, Search & ML
FutureWise
Jan 2026 - Present
10 months
Remote
– Built and optimised semantic search and embedding infrastructure at production scale using AWS Bedrock and pgvector. – Improved semantic search accuracy and relevance scores through optimised embedding pipelines and vector search systems. – Fine-tuned ML models using TensorFlow and TSRank for enhanced categorisation and ranking performance.
Part-Time Lecturer — Full Stack Web Development
University College Dublin
Jun 2024 - Present
2 years 5 months
Cambridge, UK
– Delivered industry-relevant courses in JavaScript, Python, Django, Bootstrap, and SQL to adult learners.
AI-Enhanced Full Stack Architect
2SD Technologies
Jun 2025 - Oct 2025
5 months
Remote
– Led platform redesign end-to-end — from intelligence gathering through to design, build, and deployment where no source code was available. – Engineered a web crawling and scraping layer to inform platform architecture from scratch. – Redesigned full platform in Figma with structured user flows and a reusable component library. – Built and deployed backend CMS with authentication, dynamic JSON integration, and CI/CD on Azure DevOps.
AI Engineer & Tech Consultant
Suddeco Construction
Apr 2025 - Jul 2025
4 months
Remote
– Designed and built AI-powered applications for the construction sector alongside full-stack consultancy and Agile PM support.
Software Engineer - Mobile App
Misi Fashion App
Apr 2025 - Jun 2025
3 months
Remote
– Delivered cross-platform React Native features with consistent UI/UX across iOS and Android. – Integrated Supabase for real-time backend: authentication, database, and secure API access. – Designed RESTful APIs for product listings, user profiles, and order management with RBAC.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Phlare.org
Feb 2025 - Jun 2025
5 months
Remote
– Owned full technical strategy and architecture for a Coursera-style online learning platform from zero to delivery. – Defined technical roadmap, led full-stack engineering, managed infrastructure and team. – Delivered team training and drove Agile delivery of the entire product end-to-end.
AI Engineer - LLM & RAG Chatbot Development
1 Digit
Oct 2024 - Jun 2025
9 months
London, UK
– Built production RAG-based chatbots with LLM fine-tuning for domain-specific accuracy and reduced hallucination rates. – Integrated LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, Pinecone/Chroma, and embedding pipelines for intelligent document retrieval. – Established testing frameworks and performance metrics for continuous chatbot improvement.
CTO & Full Stack Developer
Appearl Ltd
Jul 2024 - Oct 2024
4 months
Remote
– Led end-to-end feature development on the MerMapp web platform. – Integrated in-app chat and commenting systems; oversaw security, scalability, and CI/CD. – Set technical direction, mentored engineers, and collaborated cross-functionally.
Full Stack Engineer
Innex AI
Jan 2024 - Apr 2024
4 months
Cambridge, UK
– Led NHS application development — scalable APIs, optimised databases, and intelligent healthcare data interfaces. – Built Azure OpenAI + LangChain powered interfaces meeting strict NHS data governance and compliance requirements.
Senior Software Engineer
Wildfish Limited
Dec 2023 - Feb 2024
3 months
London, UK
– Delivered Python/Django backend applications with comprehensive Pytest coverage. – Contributed to open-source Django dashboard projects; deployed via CI/CD to cloud.
Lead Full Stack Python Developer
Quant Sports Trading Ltd.
Jun 2023 - Nov 2023
6 months
Cambridge, UK
– Architected a real-time ML-driven sports trading platform integrating Betfair Exchange API and algorithmic prediction models. – Engineered a robust order management system and implemented LLM-assisted trading strategies on AWS EC2.
Senior Application Developer
Be The Business
Feb 2023 - May 2023
4 months
London, UK
– Built leadership productivity and skills evaluation tools using ML, Django, React, and TensorFlow. – Delivered big data pipeline improvements via Dataiku and cloud infrastructure uplift on AWS.
Senior Backend Engineer
Emperia
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
7 months
London, UK
– Delivered a 250% increase in online sales through VR e-commerce solutions for Dior and Lacoste, deployed across 40+ global instances. – Designed React frontend with 3D tech integrations; built Strapi CMS with Salesforce product imports. – Used FastAPI, Terraform IaC, and microservices architecture for robust scalable deployment.
Full Stack Engineer
Reveall
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
5 months
Amsterdam, Netherlands
– Integrated responsive frontend with scalable Python/REST API backend in a SaaS application. – Implemented synchronous product discovery workflows using Django signals.
Senior Web Developer
Argontech
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
7 months
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
– Led Django REST framework app development with AWS/GCP cloud services, OAuth/Auth0, and Stripe/PayPal integrations.
Python Developer
Education Speedy
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
7 months
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
– Built Django/Flask e-learning platforms with PostgreSQL backends and AWS deployment.
Education
Anglia Ruskin University
MSc, Artificial Intelligence & Big Data
2021 - 2023
1 year 5 months
– Modules: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Big Data Infrastructure (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka), and AI System Design.
University of the Punjab (PUCIT)
BSc, Software Engineering
2016 - 2020
4 years 1 month
Licenses & certifications
Python Algorithmic Thinking
Issued: Jan 2023
AWS Academy Graduate
Issued: Jan 2022
Django 2.x Assessment
Issued: Jan 2021
IELTS English Proficiency
Issued: Jan 2020