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Shahzaib Shoaib

Founder and AI Engineer

Summary

AI engineer and founder of Zaibex, an AI engineering studio. I build AI-powered MVPs, agents, RAG systems and automations on top of LLM APIs, and take them to production. Shipping software since 2018, building with LLMs since GPT-3's first week, with 15+ AI systems in production and 30+ MVPs taken from idea to live. Top Rated Plus on Upwork with a 100% Job Success score.

Experience

  1. Founder and AI Engineer, Zaibex

    Oct 2025 – Present

    Remote · clients in the US and Australia

    • Founded and lead an AI engineering studio building AI-powered MVPs, agents and business systems on a fixed scope or a monthly retainer.
    • Lead every engagement, from the first scoping call through architecture to delivery.
    • Run several coding agents in parallel (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) with custom skills, subagents and MCP servers, so clients see a working version in days.
  2. Lead Product Engineer, ResultPal

    May 2026 – Present

    United States · Remote

    • Took the platform for author Dr. Pelè from concept to launch in 10 weeks, through Zaibex.
    • Built an AI coach grounded in the author's method, with long-term conversational memory on pgvector retrieval.
    • Built leader dashboards over de-identified coaching data, on a multi-tenant architecture with row-level security.
    • Live cohorts now run inside enterprise organizations.
  3. AI Engineer, Top Rated Plus, Upwork

    Apr 2025 – Present

    Worldwide

    • Top Rated Plus with a 100% Job Success score, working with founders and small teams, mostly in the US and Australia.
    • Built Legaliser, an AI contract platform with 500+ users that produces contracts about 40% faster, with layered validation lawyers sign off on.
    • Built an autonomous recruitment agent (Vapi, ElevenLabs, HeyGen, n8n, Claude) that ran an 800+ candidate funnel.
    • Built AI receptionists, outbound voice agents and a real-time consultation co-pilot for live client calls.
  4. Senior Full Stack Developer, Peanuds

    Oct 2024 – Mar 2025

    Cyprus · Remote

    • Part of the team building a B2B spend-management platform with 2–3K users.
    • Owned the KYB/KYC onboarding flow: identity verification for beneficial owners and business directors.
    • Built the core dashboard: real-time card usage, transaction limits and balances across EUR, USD and GBP.
  5. Senior Full Stack Developer, Vaionex

    Jul 2020 – Oct 2024

    Delaware, USA · Remote

    • Led the build of Relysia, a digital asset management platform, directing a small team.
    • Shipped blockchain products including Tokenovate, Nftana, TimeSeal, Centi and the official BSV Blockchain site.
    • Brought early LLM features into products and mentored junior developers.
  6. Full Stack Developer, Upwork

    Jan 2019 – Jul 2020

    Remote

    • Delivered web applications for startup clients in an agile setup, from requirements to release.
  7. Full Stack Developer, Hasati

    2018 – 2019

    California, USA · Remote

    • Built e-commerce storefronts and React admin panels, and reworked the checkout flow.

Selected projects

  • ResultPal

    10 weeks from concept to launch

    AI coaching platform for corporate training. Lead product engineering, through Zaibex.

  • Legaliser

    500+ users, contracts about 40% faster

    AI contract analysis and generation. Lead developer, end to end.

  • Autonomous recruitment agent

    800+ candidates through the funnel

    Voice and avatar hiring agent. Solo, owned end to end.

  • AI medical receptionist and voice agents

    24/7 calls answered, booked and routed

    Inbound and outbound voice agents. Solo, owned end to end.

  • AI for Australian SMEs

    Ongoing engagement, extended as the program grows

    Ongoing engagement with an Australian organization. Solo, owned end to end.

Skills

AI and agents

  • OpenAI API
  • Claude API
  • RAG
  • LangChain
  • MCP
  • Agentic workflows
  • Structured outputs
  • Evals
  • Fine-tuning hosted models

Voice and video

  • Vapi
  • Retell
  • ElevenLabs
  • HeyGen
  • Twilio

Product engineering

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • React
  • React Native
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • Fastify
  • GraphQL

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • pgvector
  • Supabase
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Pinecone
  • Firebase

Automation

  • n8n
  • Make
  • Zapier
  • GoHighLevel

Cloud

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Vercel
  • Docker

AI-native tooling

  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • Custom skills and subagents

Education

  • B.S. in Computer Science, University of the People
  • A-Levels, STEM and Business, Cambridge International

Community

  • Led AI and tech training workshops for rural communities in Pakistan, through the Google Student Club.
  • Experiential leadership development: wilderness-based leadership programs with Youth Impact.

Languages

English, Urdu, Hindi

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