Directions
AI Career Advisor
"Human" centered design in an AI obsessed world.
I design and build full-stack products web and mobile and wire in AI where it actually solves something, not because it's the trend of the month.
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Who I Am
I'm Faraz Iftikhar. I've read thousands of AI answers, so I know when to trust one.
Most of what I do is ordinary, disciplined development — clean interfaces, backends that don't fall over, code someone else can read in six months. The AI comes in after that, wired into the system only where it earns its keep.
“I'd rather ship ten lines that work than a hundred that impress. AI is a tool I reach for on purpose, not a personality I perform.”
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Selected Work
Products I've built end to end — from the interface down to the model underneath.
Medical Image Analysis
Radiology AI Platform
AI Voice Agent API
Custom XTTS Voice Cloning & Local LLM
TravelPlanner
AI Trip Planning
Market Mind
Multi-Agent Research
Babu Technicians
Local Service Platform
Niagara Falls
Django Web Platform
Finance Tracker
Offline-first Expense Tracker
Selected Project
Directions
A mobile-first AI career advisor that combines MBTI/OCEAN personality testing with journal sentiment analysis to generate tailored guidance and next-step recommendations for students and young professionals.
FlutterPythonMBTI/OCEANSentiment AnalysisAI Guidance
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Where I've Worked
Each role taught me something the last one couldn't.
Software Engineer
Rolus Tech
Now
Full-time
Current
Building production software end to end — web systems, the CRM platforms sales teams live inside, and the repetitive manual work I keep finding ways to automate out of the picture.
- Ship features across the stack, from the API contract down to the interface people actually touch.
- Build and extend CRM systems — Salesforce configuration, objects, flows and integrations — so the business runs on one source of truth instead of a spreadsheet.
- Hunt down repetitive, manual processes and automate them away — scripts, integrations and scheduled jobs that quietly remove a recurring task from someone's week.
- Work inside a live codebase: reading the decisions already there before overwriting them.
- Debug, review and harden what's already in production, not only what's new this sprint.
SalesforceCRM SystemsAutomationPythonJavaScriptREST APIsSystem Design
Mobile Application Developer
Tuvens
Previously
Mobile
Cross-platform mobile work — turning static screens into flows that behave the same way on both stores, on a bad connection, in someone's hand.
- Built and maintained application screens and flows against real, moving API contracts.
- Handled state, navigation and the edge cases — empty, offline, failed — not just the happy path.
- Worked to design specs and iterated on feedback until the build matched the intent.
FlutterDartState ManagementREST APIsMobile UI
LLM Evaluator & Prompt Engineer
Turing
Before that
Contract
via outsourced engagement
Contracted through an outsourcing partner onto Turing's RLHF programme: grading, ranking and stress-testing what large language models say before anyone else has to read it.
- Produced human preference data for RLHF — ranking competing model responses head-to-head so the reward model learned what "better" actually means.
- Scored outputs against detailed rubrics: correctness, instruction-following, reasoning quality, tone and safety.
- Wrote and adversarially tested prompts to surface hallucination, instruction drift and quiet failure modes.
- Authored reference answers and written critiques that explained why a response failed, not just that it did.
RLHFLLM EvaluationPrompt EngineeringPreference RankingRubric GradingTechnical Writing
Web Developer
Freelance
Earlier
Freelance
Independent client work — full-stack builds on the MERN stack and Python/Django, each one shipped, then made findable with the SEO work most freelancers skip.
- Built and shipped multiple client projects end to end on the MERN stack — MongoDB, Express, React and Node.js.
- Delivered backend systems and admin tooling in Python and Django for clients who needed more than a page builder.
- Wrote frontend code in TypeScript to keep growing codebases honest as project scope expanded mid-build.
- Handled on-page and technical SEO — structured data, meta strategy, page speed — so client sites actually got found.
MERN StackReactNode.jsPythonDjangoTypeScriptSEO
Software Engineer
Rolus Tech
Building production software end to end — web systems, the CRM platforms sales teams live inside, and the repetitive manual work I keep finding ways to automate out of the picture.
- Ship features across the stack, from the API contract down to the interface people actually touch.
- Build and extend CRM systems — Salesforce configuration, objects, flows and integrations — so the business runs on one source of truth instead of a spreadsheet.
- Hunt down repetitive, manual processes and automate them away — scripts, integrations and scheduled jobs that quietly remove a recurring task from someone's week.
- Work inside a live codebase: reading the decisions already there before overwriting them.
- Debug, review and harden what's already in production, not only what's new this sprint.
SalesforceCRM SystemsAutomationPythonJavaScriptREST APIsSystem Design
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What's Next?
Bring me the half-idea. I'll bring back the shipped one.
You know what you want to exist. I know how to build it. Let's meet in the middle. Let's sit down — metaphorically or otherwise — and build something that makes people stop scrolling.
The best things are built by people who refuse to settle.
Let's not settle.