Zahoor Ahmed · Senior Software Engineer & Applied AI Engineer
I help startups and businesses build AI agents, RAG applications, LLM-powered products and workflow automations — from idea to production on AWS.
Have an AI idea or a process you want to automate?
Services
Clients don't buy technologies. They buy automated processes, working products and less manual work. Here is what that looks like.
Agents that call your APIs, work with your business data and carry a workflow through to the end — instead of a chatbot that only talks.
Turn manuals, tickets, contracts and internal wikis into an assistant that answers from your own documents and shows its sources.
Take an AI idea to a working SaaS or MVP — backend, frontend, database, payments and deployment, built to be extended rather than thrown away.
Add OpenAI, Claude or self-hosted models, MCP servers and LLM features to the applications your team already runs — without a rewrite.
The engineering around the model is what reaches users: APIs, front-ends, databases, Kubernetes on AWS and CI/CD pipelines that keep shipping.
Case studies
Products I own and platforms I built for employers, each told as the problem, what I built and what it changed.
LiveMulti-Tenant SaaS Platform · Own product — architecture to production
Autonomous SEO Engineering · Own product — in development
LiveE-Commerce Platform · Full-stack developer, Retromotion GmbH, 2022–2024
LiveAirline Retailing · Software engineer, TPConnects Technologies, 2019–2022
LiveBuilt on Guessto · Restaurant Ordering
A live venue running on the Guessto platform — full digital menu, allergen and diet filters, and direct ordering on its own subdomain.
LiveSports Community App
Community platform for active lifestyles, shipping on iOS and Android alongside the web product.
LiveE-Commerce
Dutch home-shopping storefront with multi-category catalogue, promotions and a full checkout flow.
Own product · AI Language Learning
German language practice driven by conversational LLM agents and retrieval over graded source material.
Venue Discovery
Venue discovery and booking experience built for the Singapore market.
Why work with me
The model is the easy part. The retrieval, the tool calling, the evaluation, the deployment and the monitoring around it are what reach users — and that is the work I have done for eight years.
Fleet telematics, an auto-parts marketplace and an IATA-certified airline platform: systems with real traffic, real money and real on-call.
AWS, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD and Grafana come with the engagement. You get a system that is deployed and observable, not a notebook.
Guessto runs live restaurants today and RankForge AI opens pull requests on real repositories. I know what it takes to get from idea to paying users.
I bridge frontier AI models with robust, production-ready software architecture. Eight years of shipping fleet telematics, e-commerce and airline platforms taught me that the model is the easy part — the engineering around it is what reaches users.
Zahoor AhmedSenior Software Engineer · AI EngineerHow it works
A free 30-minute call about your business, your workflow and what you want to automate or build. You get an honest view of whether AI helps here.
Data, model choice, integration points and a delivery plan with a fixed first milestone you can hold me to.
A working prototype first, then production code: tested, reviewed and shipped in small increments you can try each week.
Deployed on AWS with monitoring, evaluation and cost controls in place, and support after go-live.
Who I help
Build your AI MVP without hiring a full engineering team, on foundations that survive your first customers.
Automate repetitive workflows and internal processes: support triage, document handling, reporting, data entry.
Add experienced AI engineering capacity to your team for a feature, a quarter or a product line.
Deliver AI projects for your clients without building an AI team in-house. White-label welcome.
Pricing
Starting points, not quotes. Every engagement begins with the free discovery call, and fixed-price offers follow a written scope.
€250fixed
Business and process analysis plus a technical AI roadmap you can act on, with or without me.
Timeline: One week
Most chosen first
from €1,500
A working AI proof-of-concept on your real data, so the decision to invest is made on evidence.
Timeline: 1–2 weeks
from €3,000
AI plus backend, frontend, database and deployment: a product your first users can log in to.
Timeline: 4–8 weeks
€70+per hour
Ongoing development, integration and technical support as part of your team.
Timeline: Flexible
FAQ
Anything missing? Ask it on the discovery call, or send it through the form below.
Agents that automate a business workflow, RAG assistants over company documents, LLM features inside existing software, and complete AI products or MVPs. If a task involves unstructured text, documents or decisions that currently need a person to read and route things, it is usually a good fit.
Typically one to two weeks. A prototype runs on your real data and comes with an evaluation set, so you see actual answer quality before committing to a full build.
OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Hugging Face models and self-hosted open-source models through Ollama. The choice follows your data-privacy requirements, latency and cost. EU-hosted and on-premise options are available when data cannot leave your infrastructure.
Yes. Most engagements add AI to existing systems through APIs, MCP servers or function calling rather than replacing them. I have worked with Node.js, Python, Java, Angular, React, Vue and PostgreSQL stacks, and with legacy SOAP and REST integrations.
Discovery is €250 fixed, a prototype starts at €1,500, an MVP at €3,000, and ongoing engineering from €70 per hour. Every project starts with a free 30-minute call, and fixed-price work follows a written scope.
I am based near Koblenz, Germany, and work remotely with clients across Germany, the EU and beyond in English. I have delivered production software in Germany, the UAE and Pakistan.
About
8+ years building production software across fleet telematics, e-commerce, airline technology and AI — in Germany, the UAE and Pakistan.
Dec 2024 – Present · Coblenz, DE
Angular 19 / TypeScript PWA modules for fleet telematics, from TDD to deployment.
Dec 2022 – Aug 2024 · Stuttgart, DE
Microservices-based e-commerce platform for auto parts (Vue.js, Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL).
Oct 2019 – Oct 2022 · Dubai, UAE
Flight booking platform (Angular, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL) from scratch to production.
5 roles in total · Mülheim-Kärlich, Germany · English and German
AI Engineering Programme
Turing College · 2026
Prompt engineering and LLM benchmarking, RAG with LangChain, function calling, and production AI agents with long-term memory.
Associate AI Engineer for Developers
Datacamp · 2026
B.Eng. Software Engineering (BSCSE)
Virtual University of Pakistan · 2014 – 2018
Technical stack
For the engineers on your side. Everything above is delivered with this stack, and the full list is in the CV.
Engineering Stack
AI Engineering
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30 minutes · Free · Remote
Tell me about:
I will tell you whether I think AI can realistically help, what I would build first, and what it would roughly take. No slides, no obligation.