Applied AI Engineer · Penn State CS, May 2026

I build software that real people depend on, not demos.

Built production RAG serving 10,000+ users at WellX AI. Co authored a benchmark paper accepted at ECCV 2026. Two local first products live on this domain. I look for the unglamorous fix first.

State College, PA · open to SF Bay Area, NYC, Seattle, Dubai

Sharique Khatri
State College, PA

Questions? Ask the small version of me.

Mini Sharique Ask me about the work. I only answer from verified facts, so I'd rather say less than make something up.

Gemini · MongoDB Atlas vector search · Flask · same pattern as my WellX AI work. No chat history is stored.

Built, shipped, and documented.

Everything below is clickable and verifiable. Live links, real repos, honest scope.

Bibi interface
local first voice agent · windows · MIT

Bibi

Say its name and it opens apps, moves the real mouse, reads the screen, and answers out loud. A custom agent loop routes each request across local models and Claude by task signal, cost, and latency.

The agent loop matters more than the model.

Python · Flask · Electron · faster-whisper · Ollama · Claude
MeetingScribe interface
on device meeting transcription · macOS · MIT

MeetingScribe

No bot joins the call. It records both sides at the OS audio layer and transcribes a 45 minute call in roughly 90 seconds on the Apple Neural Engine. Everything stays as plain files on your Mac.

Granola removed the bot from your meeting. MeetingScribe removes the cloud.

Swift · CoreAudio · Apple Neural Engine · EventKit

OmniSch

publication · accepted at ECCV 2026

On paperCo author on a multimodal PCB schematic benchmark, arXiv:2604.00270.

Real storyI owned the human annotation pipeline: 1,854 real world schematics, about 109.9K labeled instances aligning 423.4K semantic labels to visual regions. I wrote the validity spec and enforced annotator consistency. Benchmark numbers only mean something if the ground truth is consistent.

Honest scopeMine: the annotation pipeline and its quality bar. Not mine: methodology design.

Paper Computer vision · VLM benchmarking · data quality

Aman UAE

shipped · live in production

On paperA real time UAE news platform with LLM based source verification.

Real storyBuilt end to end with Claude Code in days, not weeks: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, MCP server integrations. The launch post reached 26,000+ impressions on LinkedIn.

Honest scopeDeployed through Vercel's Git integration. No custom CI pipeline, and it does not need one.

Live Next.js · TypeScript · MCP · Claude Code

Taazify

iOS · the unglamorous fix

On paperA SwiftUI app that scans grocery receipts and tracks expiry.

Real storyThe vision model kept hallucinating on POS abbreviations like BNLS SKNLS CKN BRST. Rather than throw a bigger model at it, I traced the failure and built a ReceiptNormalizer that expands abbreviations deterministically before the model ever sees the input. The unglamorous fix was the right one.

Honest scopeNot on the App Store. A working system I use, not a shipped product.

Repo SwiftUI · FastAPI · Qwen2-VL · PostgreSQL

VaultCache

systems · C

On paperAn encrypted file system in C.

Real storyAES-256 block encryption, SHA-256 integrity, PBKDF2 key derivation, crash recovery journaling, and a custom LRU cache that cut repeated file access latency 65%. I wanted to understand what actually happens at the block layer.

Honest scopeA learning build, and it taught me more about storage than any course did.

Repo C · AES-256 · block I/O · LRU caching

Intrsekt

paid client work

On paperA marketing site for a consulting firm.

Real storyHand coded solo in vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript under a signed contractor agreement: shared component system, scroll reveals, an ambient canvas hero. Real client, real deadline, real invoice.

Honest scopeNo framework because the job did not need one.

Live HTML · CSS · JavaScript

Where the numbers come from.

WellX AI

Software Engineering Intern
Dubai, remote · Dec 2025 – Mar 2026

Health tech startup, reported directly to the CTO. Built production RAG pipelines serving 10,000+ users over enterprise wearable data with Python, FastAPI, and vector search. Designed REST ingestion for Fitbit, Apple Watch, and WHOOP. Owned AI features from prompt design through offline evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.

Real storyA chunk of the job was tracing an outsourced production stack, documenting what was actually running, and fixing the parts with no visibility. The real bottleneck was not building new things. It was understanding what was already there.

Penn State ORIS

DevOps Intern
University Park, PA · May 2025 – Aug 2025

Modernized legacy research IT services: migrated backends to C# .NET, wrote parameterized SQL to close injection holes, built CI/CD on Azure DevOps, containerized services with Docker. Delivered 11 backend enhancements and cut deployment time 40%.

Fourth Square

Software Engineering Intern
Texas, remote · May 2024 – Aug 2024

Shipped a LangChain document Q&A and content generation system that handled 1,000+ production queries, integrating OpenAI and Cohere. Cut latency 40% with prompt chaining, chunking, and caching. Built a lightweight LLM eval harness and tuned outputs against direct researcher feedback.

HVAC Digital Twin

Capstone Team Lead
Penn State · sponsored by Automated Logic (Carrier) · 2025 – 2026

Led BACnet integration on a real time HVAC simulation system: Python backend, React dashboard, historical weather playback so sponsor engineers could test behavior without touching live infrastructure. Coordinated weekly with the sponsor's team.

SEERA Travel Group

Frontend Web Development Intern
Dubai, remote · Oct 2022 – Dec 2022

Built React UI components and customer facing booking flows on a travel platform.

Smaller builds, same standard.