Awais Hyder

AI Agent Engineer — Agents, RAG Pipelines & AI-Integrated Web | Independent Consultant (Self-employed)

Jan 2024 - Present • 2 yrs 7 mos

Architect production AI agent systems and AI-integrated business websites for clients across the US, UK and Europe. • Deployed a LangGraph + FastAPI multi-agent architecture across 41 configurations in five industry verticals • Engineered Hybrid Search RAG pipelines — dense vector retrieval fused with sparse BM25, reranked through Cohere cross-encoders • Built tool-calling layers spanning CRM writeback, external data APIs, calendar booking and eligibility gating, all under Pydantic schema enforcement • Shipped SHA-256 idempotency guards eliminating duplicate CRM writes • Embedded custom FastAPI agents directly into WordPress builds • Built ML pipelines in pandas/scikit-learn: churn classification at 71% recall, 88% precision, ROC-AUC 0.915 across 50,000 records

WordPress Developer & Web Designer

Jan 2019 - Dec 2023 • 4 yrs 11 mos

Delivered 100+ complete, conversion-focused WordPress business websites on a contract basis, primarily for service businesses reaching me through agency referral — contractors, clinics, trades and local service providers. • End-to-end builds: premium theme installation, full UI/UX layout customization, service page architecture and complete content management • Speed optimization, responsive implementation and on-page SEO on every build • Sites handed over finished and client-ready, not as demo imports • Sustained repeat contracting across five years This is where the pivot began. I kept delivering fast, well-built sites to businesses that remained buried in repetitive enquiries afterwards. The website was never the bottleneck — the work behind it was. That observation moved me into backend automation and AI agent architecture.