Syed Syab Ahmad

I build production AI systems — the kind that survive real users, not just demo day.

5+ years shipping software, 290 public repos, 4,726 contributions and counting. I work across the whole stack: training embedding models from scratch, wiring LLM agents into real workflows, and building the front-ends and APIs that make it usable.

By day I run MenteE — the AI product studio where the recent work happens (the products speak for themselves below). My own site lives at syab.tech.

• 🔭 Now: multilingual embedding research, agentic tooling, and hiring/workflow automation
• 🌍 Based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · working Pakistan → Gulf → global
• 🤝 Open to: AI product builds, full-stack engineering, technical partnerships, startup collaboration

score = contributions + commits + (5 × PRs) + (5 × stars) + (2 × repos)
      = 4,726         + 3,824    + (5 × 123)  + (5 × 26)    + (2 × 290)
      = 9,875  →  Level 5 of 6

Day-to-day work at MenteE — products, not pitch decks.

AI hiring & interview platform. AI job matching for candidates, ATS-optimized CV scoring, unlimited AI mock interviews, and full applied → hired pipeline automation for organizations. Built for Pakistan, expanding across the Gulf (UAE · Saudi Arabia · Qatar · Kuwait · Oman · Bahrain). Flask · PostgreSQL · Redis · Kafka · LLMs Platform · Live app

A terminal-native software-engineering agent: it investigates your repo, plans the change, edits it, runs your tests and reports back with evidence. Model-agnostic, MIT licensed, zero-install try via npx. Agents · CLI · Any model provider Details

Compact multilingual text embedding models trained from scratch — no borrowed weights: ~41M parameters, 384-dimensional output, Arabic + English + Urdu retrieval, two-stage MLM → contrastive recipe, Apache 2.0. PyTorch · Embeddings · Single-GPU training Research · Models · Preprint (DOI)

mentee-embed — competitive multilingual embeddings, trained from zero.

• 🧠 ~41M params · 384 dims · 3 languages (العربية · English · اردو) — low-resource languages treated as first-class
• 🥇 Two-stage from-scratch training: masked language modeling, then contrastive fine-tuning — a cheap bootstrap that avoids representation collapse
• 📄 Preprint: mentee-embed-v3 · Zenodo · 26 Aug 2026 · CC BY 4.0 → DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22117673
• 📊 5 publications, measured numbers instead of marketing — failures documented next to wins, every artifact public

Read the research →

~50 projects live on syab.tech — here are the ones worth your time.

🤖 AI, agents & LLMs

• Req2Ops LangGraph · FastAPI · React 19 — turns messy briefs (text, PDFs, audio, screenshots) into structured project plans: 56 plan types, sprint estimation, risk scoring, live SSE streaming.
• Mockster.ai Python · LLMs — AI interview simulator for realistic, repeatable mock interviews.
• AI Voice Agent FastAPI · Retell AI — production voice agent for automated appointment booking with a live sheet-based CRM, email and webhooks.
• DOCX AI Translator Python · Groq Llama 4 · python-docx — Chinese → English document pipeline: 668/668 blocks translated on a 55 MB paper, images preserved, checkpoint/resume, quota-aware retries.
• University Chatbot Python · NLP — campus assistant answering from real university knowledge.
• PodcastMaker OpenAI · Streamlit — text to podcast: LLM scripting plus TTS audio generation.

🧰 Platforms, apps & tooling

• StitchPoint React · Node · MongoDB · Stripe — multi-vendor artisan marketplace with admin dashboards, vendor analytics, orders and secure payments.
• RunAI React · JSON-driven — gamified AI/ML learning: mission-based challenges, embedded editor, terminal simulator, XP progression.
• Menteemart React · Node — full commerce build.
• DocsBox Kotlin · Firebase · AES — privacy-first encrypted document storage.
• CamWatch OpenCV · YOLO — vision-based monitoring pipeline.

📦 Open source on PyPI

• datafit — data preprocessing + feature engineering in a couple of lines.
• menteedb — minimal, typed Python database layer.
• autodatap — automated ML data preparation toolkit.

🌐 Client work — shipped & live

Nainzaka Aesthetics · Bombay Town · Arabian Deccan · Mashwi Singary · Machali Kingdom Riyadh · Sabqa · Laboratory Management System · Global Craft Hub

Notes from the product and research trenches, on the MenteE blog:

• 📌 Jobs in Dubai, UAE and the Gulf from Pakistan — how AI matching actually finds roles you'll get · 8 min
• 🎤 AI mock interviews that prepare you for real interviews in Pakistan and the Gulf · 7 min
• 🏢 Hiring in Pakistan and the Gulf: pipeline automation that makes it faster and fairer · 7 min

AI / ML / Data

Backend

Frontend

Cloud / DevOps

Languages & mobile

Core expertise: LLMs RAG Agents Embeddings Fine-tuning Computer Vision NLP FastAPI PostgreSQL System Design MLOps CI/CD

• 🥇 Founded MenteE — an AI product studio shipping products, not services (menteeai.org)
• 🧠 Trained embedding models from scratch (~41M params) on a single GPU and published the research openly (Zenodo, CC BY 4.0)
• 📦 3 packages on PyPI — datafit · menteedb · autodatap
• 📈 4,726 contributions in 5 years, B+ GitHub rank, longest streak 109 days
• 🌍 Products live across Pakistan & the Gulf — with Arabic and Urdu support rolling out
• 🎓 Mentored through open learning tracks used by students and junior devs

Agentic AI · Advanced RAG · Vision Transformers · Representation collapse · Production MLOps · Multilingual retrieval · Scalable AI infra

If you've got an AI product, a messy workflow, or a system that needs to actually scale — I'm interested.

_{📊 Stats on this page are read live from the GitHub API — last refreshed October 2026.}

_{⭐ If any of my open-source work saved you time, a star on the repo makes my day. MenteE's Leader 🥀}