Applied AI & vision
OCR and vision-LLM extraction, retail-display scoring and classical CV, fused with deterministic validators.
Available for AI platform, systems and security work
00 · Ahmad Zushan · Delhi, IN · AI, Systems & Platform Engineer
AI systems that ship: the model, the platform and the machine underneath.
AI/ML engineer working end to end: OCR and vision-LLM pipelines, fine-tuned models, LLM agents behind guarded APIs, kernel-level observability, LLM security, and the nginx, systemd and GPU infrastructure it all runs on. I ship the model and the platform around it.
01 · Document AI ProductionHaier document-intelligence platformInvoice, legal and retail-compliance vision pipelines serving 5,000 requests a minute with multi-vendor failover.
11 · Live AI AI Conclave 2026QUIN, the AI event co-hostGemini-Live voice with MC↔AI turn-taking and an InsightFace reception desk, on stage.
14 · Kernel security Case studyeBPF data-flow agentOutbound-traffic visibility without TLS decryption at about 0.7% host CPU.
0documented projects
0VLMs fine-tuned on one 24 GB GPU
0requests per minute served
0live sites added in 2026
- Python
- TypeScript
- FastAPI
- Next.js
- Django
- PyTorch
- vLLM
- PaddleOCR
- YOLO
- Qwen-VL
- Gemini
- Bedrock
- eBPF
- Kubernetes
- Redis
- Kafka
- PostgreSQL
- nginx
- Rust
- WebAssembly
- FreeSWITCH
- LoRA
- OpenCV
- systemd
- Docker
- Pillow
- HarfBuzz
- SQLite
01 · Flagship work
Systems designed, built and run in production.
Document AI at scale, a live AI stage co-host, kernel-level data-flow security and real-time telephony. Case-study PDFs are attached where they exist.
№ 01 · AI · Vision & OCR
Haier Document-Intelligence Platform
One FastAPI platform, three use cases: handwritten-invoice extraction, long legal-PDF summarisation, and retail-display compliance scoring.
Live AI co-hostNode.js · Gemini Live API · InsightFace · Flask4production services on stage
№ 11 · Products & Infra
QUIN — Live AI Event Co-Host
An AI that performs on stage with a human MC using real-time voice, plus a face-recognition reception desk: four production services.
Kernel-level data-flow visibilityeBPF · BCC/libbpf · ByteBuddy/ASM · Rust0.7%host CPU over millions of events
№ 14 · Security & Systems
eBPF Data-Flow Agent & Nucleus Platform
Host→nucleus→backend platform that sees what apps send out over HTTPS, without decrypting TLS, at about 0.7% host CPU over millions of events.
Real-time telephony voice agentFreeSWITCH · mod_audio_fork · ESL · NLU2media paths: mod_audio_fork out, ESL back
№ 13 · LLM & Agents
Air India Voice Bot Platform
A live airline voice bot: the caller speaks naturally, the system understands intent, calls real business APIs, and speaks the answer back into the same call.
02 · The full index
Every project, one list.
Nineteen documented pieces of work from 2024 to 2026, in order. Filter by discipline; hover a row for a preview; open any row for architecture, hard problems and what shipped.
- 01
Haier Document-Intelligence Platform
One FastAPI platform, three use cases: handwritten-invoice extraction, long legal-PDF summarisation, and…→ - 02
5,000-RPM Vision-LLM Serving
Split the hottest compliance endpoints into a dedicated service sustaining 5,000 requests per minute against…→ - 03
Retail-Compliance VLM Fine-Tuning Program
99K-image dataset engineering and LoRA fine-tunes of six VLM families on a single A10G, to replace paid cloud…→ - 04
Unified 3-Use-Case Compliance SaaS
Turned three headless ML APIs into a polished Next.js + FastAPI product with auth, RBAC, jobs and hybrid…→ - 05
Meter OCR — Gemini Reading Service
Utility-meter reading API and front end: photo in, exact register reading and serial number out, with domain…→ - 06
Meter OCR — Custom Detection + Recognition
A zero-manual-labelling dataset via VLM × PaddleOCR cross-validation, then YOLO-OBB detection and fine-tuned…→ - 07
PaddleOCR Microservice + Stamp Detection
The ecosystem's OCR workhorse on two servers: orientation, structured boxes, markdown layout, parallel…→ - 08
Document Preprocessing & OCR Toolkit
Nine single-purpose tools that solved garbage-in for OCR: VLM sorter → ResNet-18 classifier → smart croppers…→ - 09
Dynamic Dashboard — Visual Analytics over Salesforce
Ask anything about CRM data in natural language; the LLM plans, fetches and composes the right dashboard…→ - 10
Two-LLM Analytics Agent
A stronger LLM writes guarded SOQL; a cheaper LLM shapes the results into components. The lean, cost-aware…→ - 11
QUIN — Live AI Event Co-Host
An AI that performs on stage with a human MC using real-time voice, plus a face-recognition reception desk:…→ - 12
Infrastructure, DevOps & Disaster Recovery
Two multi-service nginx estates, a systemd fleet, an instance-store data-loss incident and a recovery…→ - 13
Air India Voice Bot Platform
A live airline voice bot: the caller speaks naturally, the system understands intent, calls real business…→ - 14
eBPF Data-Flow Agent & Nucleus Platform
Host→nucleus→backend platform that sees what apps send out over HTTPS, without decrypting TLS, at about 0.7%…→ - 15
LLM Security Layer — Prompt-Injection WAF
A guardrail layer in front of LLM apps: an LLM-as-WAF classifier, tiny fine-tuned ONNX injection detectors…→ - 16
Crayto — Zero-Trust Browser Extension
An MV3 anti-phishing agent that stops users typing corporate credentials into untrusted pages, enforced by…→ - 17
MMTC — Security & Infra Hardening at Scale
Hardened about 48 VMs across a heterogeneous estate while keeping developer velocity: layered controls,…→ - 18
School Portal — Madrasa Management System
A full-stack Django product: admissions, students, attendance, finance, reports and audit logging with…→ - 19
Early NLP & Data Consulting (2024)
Schema-aware NLP-to-SQL with GPT-3.5, Llama 2 + TF-IDF transcript classification, and retail forecasting: the…→
03 · Capabilities
What I bring across the stack.
Guiding principles: deterministic contracts around probabilistic models, cost-aware inference, resource-budgeted deployments, and observability from the kernel up.
Model training & serving
LoRA/4-bit fine-tuning on constrained GPUs, quantisation and high-throughput serving.
LLM systems & agents
Planner/composer pipelines, structured outputs, tool and query guards, cost-tiered inference.
Security engineering
eBPF and runtime interception, LLM guardrails, Zero-Trust clients and fleet hardening.
Cloud, MLOps & infra
Reverse proxies, process supervision, GPU hosts, streaming transport and data layers.
Products & the web
Next.js/React and Django/FastAPI/Node products, static generators, WebAssembly in the browser, strict CSP deployments.
04 · Journey
From NLP consulting to a product studio.
How I work
Spec first, mock-first processors, then real inference behind an unchanged contract. Everything I build I also deploy, monitor, back up and, when it breaks, recover.
Start a conversation- 2024
Applied NLP consulting
Schema-aware NLP-to-SQL (GPT-3.5), Llama 2 + TF-IDF transcript classification and retail forecasting: the foundations of the later agent work.
- 2025
Security & observability platforms
eBPF outbound data-flow agent and nucleus, an LLM prompt-injection WAF, the Crayto Zero-Trust extension and MMTC fleet hardening.
- Nov 2025
Document-AI platform in production
Haier invoice, legal and compliance pipelines, the PaddleOCR microservice and a nine-tool preprocessing toolkit.
- Jan – Mar 2026
Scale & self-hosted models
5,000-RPM vision-LLM serving with failover, then a six-model VLM fine-tuning programme distilling cloud VLMs onto one A10G.
- Apr – Jul 2026
Products, agents & live AI
Unified compliance SaaS, Salesforce analytics agents, the meter-OCR pipeline and QUIN, a live AI event co-host with face-recognition reception.
- Aug – Sep 2026
A product studio on one VM
FormReady, DocTools, ClipBridge, CutReady, RetroDeck and Emulator Hub, plus the msju.in and Healtharo client sites, all shipped and operated on a single self-managed server.
05 · Documents
Case studies and the dossier.
Detailed write-ups with architecture diagrams, approaches tried and engineering decisions.
PDFPDFPDFPDFPDF
Haier AI Platform
Retail compliance, OCR extraction and legal pipelines: architecture and decisions.
Open PDFAir India Voice Bot
FreeSWITCH + ESL real-time voice architecture, end to end.
Open PDFeBPF Data-Flow Agent & Nucleus
Kernel-to-backend outbound visibility platform and Kubernetes rollout.
Open PDFTechnical Portfolio & Architecture Dossier
Cross-cutting summary of AI, security, cloud and MLOps work.
Open PDFCrayto Development Roadmap
Zero-Trust browser-security agent: requirements and plan.
Open PDF06 · Live sites · additions
Recent additions, all live today.
Newer work from August and September 2026, listed separately from the portfolio above: products under zooshan.com, two client websites and the single VM that runs them. Each entry opens a short case page and links to the live site.
zooshan.com products
Consumer tools built and operated under my own brand.
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FormReady — Exam & Government Form File Tools
Tell it what the portal asks for (JPG, 200×230 px, 20–50 KB) and get a file that passes: photos, signatures, scans, PDFs and the numbers portals ask for.
formready.zooshan.com ↗Aug 2026 – present · Live - 21
DocTools — PDF Workshop
Thirteen server-side PDF and vector tools in one focused workspace: merge, split, compress, protect, unlock, watermark, number, clean metadata, convert, and trace images into real vector paths.
doctools.zooshan.com ↗2026 · Live - 22
ClipBridge — Your clipboard on every device
Private text, links and files shared between your own devices, with connections between accounts, directed transfers, live updates and single-use guest links.
clipbridge.zooshan.com ↗2026 · Live - 23
CutReady — 304 cutting-ready text & vector tools
Calligraphy, stickers, vinyl, laser and CNC tools that turn a typed name into a file the machine accepts, entirely in the browser.
cutready.zooshan.com ↗Sep 2026 · Live - 24
Zooshan.com — the tools hub
The front door for the product family: it explains which tool fits which job, hosts long-form guides on application photos, PDFs and file sharing, and carries the studio's privacy commitments.
zooshan.com ↗2026 · Live - 25
RetroDeck — PlayStation in the browser
Load your own PlayStation disc images and BIOS and play privately in a modern browser; nothing is uploaded.
ps1.zooshan.com ↗Sep 2026 · Live - 26
Emulator Hub — private browser emulators
One page for many systems: arcade, Nintendo, Sega, Sony, Atari and classic computers, each running lawful backups locally in the browser.
emulators.zooshan.com ↗Sep 2026 · Live
Client sites
Websites designed and shipped for clients in 2026.
- 27
Siraj-ul-Uloom — a trilingual heritage website
A redesigned website for a 124-year-old madrasa in Sambhal: heritage photography, a 52-image gallery, admissions and donation guidance, and full Urdu and Arabic editions.
msju.in ↗Sep 2026 · Live - 28
Healtharo — herbal & Unani brand catalogue
A 67-page catalogue site for a Sambhal herbal manufacturer: product families, compositions, classic Unani ranges, quality pages and WhatsApp-first contact.
healtharo.co.in ↗Sep 2026 · Live
Platform
The hosting layer underneath all of them.
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One VM, twelve sites — the Zooshan hosting platform
Every product above runs on a single 2-vCPU virtual machine: twelve nginx virtual hosts, Docker Compose and systemd services, Let's Encrypt certificates, release directories and tested rollback.
self-hosted platformAug – Sep 2026 · Production
07 · Contact
Let's build something that ships.
Open to AI/ML platform roles, systems and security engineering, and focused product work. Based in Delhi, working across remote GPU and cloud estates.
ahzushan@gmail.com- ahzushan@gmail.com
- Phone / WhatsApp
- +91 97200 40070
- Location
- Delhi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
- Studio
- zooshan.com