Abdirakhman Ismail

I've worked end-to-end on a production AI platform, building core infrastructure and improving how the system grounds its outputs to make them more accurate and trustworthy. As a founding engineer at a startup, I built the backend from scratch -- covering API design, database architecture, and cloud deployment pipelines -- and built an AI agent that automates user requests from natural-language and image input, which played a key role in helping the company secure early-stage investment. My foundation is in systems-level engineering: I've built low-level tools like parsers and emulators and meaningfully improved their performance, and I've worked on resilient data export and transfer. I hold a BSc in Computer Science, and as a competitive programmer I've placed highly in international programming contests, which is where I sharpened the instinct for performance and clean problem-solving I bring to every system I build. I'm always interested in hard problems where scalable backends meet generative AI.