Aashir Aftab

Experience

A chronological index of my professional journey, research contributions, and academic background.

2025

Senior Software Engineer

Ecommerce.co

Remote/work
  • Developed a scalable, cloud-hosted ecommerce SaaS platform using TypeScript, Next.js, Vercel AI SDK, MongoDB, and GraphQL.
  • Built and deployed ETL data pipelines for integration and management of complex Shopify workflows.
  • Designed and maintained cron jobs and scheduled workflows for automated data ingestion.
  • Led performance optimization and query tuning to scale the platform to 10,000 monthly active users.
  • Developed an AI agent workflow leveraging LLMs and RAG for ecommerce products.
2025

Graduate Research Assistant

Georgia State University

Atlanta, GA/research
  • Developed a multimodal AI-assisted clinical decision support system using LLMs for medical triage.
  • Applied RAG and task-specific fine-tuning with refined system prompts for GPT via OpenAI API, achieving 95% F1 accuracy.
  • Evaluated model performance using precision, recall, and F1 metrics.
2024 — 2025

Graduate Research Assistant

Southeast Missouri State University

Cape Girardeau, MO/research
  • Curated an open-source, validated dataset consisting of 400 peer reviews from journal articles.
  • Fine-tuned LLMs (DistilBERT, RoBERTa, XLNet) for NLP peer-review text classification.
  • Achieved 76.71% validation accuracy with XLNet.
  • Evaluated comparative model performance using standard metrics.
2023 — 2025

Software Engineer

WinningHunter

Remote/work
  • Developed and maintained SaaS platform features using PHP and JavaScript.
  • Implemented AI-driven features with strong focus on user experience (UX) and digital content quality.
  • Built and deployed cron jobs and scheduled ETL processes for automated data ingestion.
  • Increased platform reliability and user satisfaction through quality assurance and unit testing.
2025 — Present

M.S. in Computer Science

Georgia State University

Atlanta, GA/education
  • Notable Coursework: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Advanced Data Mining, Advanced Algorithms

Capabilities

Core technical stack and methodologies.

Engineering

PythonTypeScriptReactNext.jsC/C++PHPSwift

Intelligence

LLMsRAGPyTorchNLPDeep LearningTensorFlow

Infrastructure

AWSGCPDockerCI/CDPostgreSQLMongoDB

Practices

System DesignUnit TestingCode ReviewsAgileSDLC

2026 — Aashir Aftab