Afraz Syed

Tech: Python, Django, Go, React / Next.js, Celery, AWS (Lambda, RDS, WAF, ELB), GCP, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL

• Built modular AI-agent infrastructure with LangGraph + Langfuse, enabling sandboxed tool use and artefact syncing.
• Scaled Celery pipelines handling 5M+ daily tasks and built a Golang pipeline that processes ~8 TB data/3 B+ rows once every few months.
• Co-developed an AI-detector model (98% accuracy) and integrated developer-productivity tools (CodeRabbit., Delve AI, personal MCPs etc).
• Managed AWS infra & security (WAF, load-balancers, alerts) and deployed Lambdas handling 1 M+ calls/day.
• Optimized databases & Elasticsearch (300 M+ docs), improved query performance, and simplified data migration.
• Shipped responsive web, Chrome, and iOS UIs with real-time collaboration + citation features.

• Co-founded and led Web3 infrastructure vision — defined roadmap and engineered core backend systems.
• Built APIs for blockchain data, smart-contract deployment, and subscription-based rate-limiting.
• Designed secure auth using JWT + Firebase for safe, scalable access control.

• Architected multi-service trading + payments backend deployed on GCP Cloud Run (Dockerized).
• Built real-time order-book + trade-matching engine with Go + Firebase, improving execution latency.
• Developed a market-making bot to enhance liquidity via cross-exchange order mirroring.
• Integrated Stripe, structured JSON GPT agents before structured responses were a thing by personally fine tuning models, and responsive UIs with candlestick charts, lazy loading and a custom indicator builder where users could create their own personal indicators using more than 10K parameters

• https://mitwpu.edu.in/
• GPA: 9.3 GPA