Syed Abdul Khader

Senior AI Software Engineer

Amuse Labs

May 2024 - Apr 2026 · Bangalore, India

Designed and built PuzzleMe Agent, a production Google ADK/MCP multi-agent system spanning LLMs and VLMs, with planning, memory, structured outputs, and tools for Google Search, Wikimedia, and internal APIs. Architected pgvector RAG with Gemini embeddings on Vertex AI; benchmarked HNSW, IVFFlat, and DiskANN and selected DiskANN for fastest retrieval. Added BM25, HyDE, and Cohere Reranker, increasing output by 60%. Built Promptfoo evaluation loops with SME-calibrated LLM-as-Judge, sampled production traces, heuristic evaluations, golden-dataset promotion, and CI gates. Deployed FastAPI AI services on GCP with Docker Compose and GitHub Actions, handling 15K-20K daily requests with 2x higher concurrency. Led the AI portfolio from customer discovery through architecture, implementation, monitoring, and iteration; mentored interns and led code and design reviews.

Research Scholar

Mass General Hospital

April 2023 - April 2024 · Boston, USA

Achieved SOTA in surgical video segmentation with 92.26% binary and 74.43% multi-class IoU by improving video object segmentation pipelines, benchmarking strategy, and reliability-focused evaluation. Built an annotation platform integrating SAM-Med2D and XMem++; resident and medical-student annotation with surgeon review reduced labeling time by 75%. Benchmarked SAM/SAM2, XMem/XMem++, YOLO, and Mask R-CNN on Lambda Labs GPUs across dataset sizes and augmentation strategies using ablation studies.

Data Scientist

Infinstor

June 2021 - July 2022 · Remote

Built a LayoutLM-based document AI pipeline with Tesseract, PaddleOCR, handwritten OCR, and YOLO field detection for financial and tax forms, reducing processing time by 90%. Implemented transformer-based anomaly detection for SQL queries and AWS CloudWatch logs using LogBERT, with automated metrics, drift monitoring, and error-pattern analysis.

Dev Business Analyst

Infor

July 2019 - April 2021 · Hyderabad, India

Engineered SQL ETL and mapping scripts for four enterprise CRM/ERP migrations spanning hundreds to thousands of tables from Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Salesforce into Infor.

AI Software Engineer

Amuse Labs

2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

I develop AI assistants that enable anyone to create engaging knowledge games with just a few clicks. Democratising puzzle creation through technology.

Research Engineer

Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital

1 yr 1 mo · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Data Scientist I

InfinStor

1 yr 3 mos

Dev Business Analyst, Associate

Infor

1 yr 10 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Mechanical Design Intern

ION Energy

4 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region