Awais Ahmed AI Engineer · Ingolstadt
Production GenAI · Retrieval · Evaluation · EU AI Act

I help European companies get GenAI systems into production. Reliably, evaluated, and EU AI Act-compliant.

Most GenAI pilots die on the way to production: retrieval nobody measured, prompts nobody evaluated, compliance nobody scoped. I build the systems that survive that trip, and the harnesses that prove they work. AI Engineer at NFON AG, M.Sc. AI candidate, Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer.

Awais Ahmed
Based
Ingolstadt, DE
Now
NFON AG
Languages
EN · DE · UR
Consulting
Limited availability
+16pts
context sufficiency from re-engineering RAG retrieval, with 95% CIs. Measured, not assumed
98%
valid-JSON extraction from a fine-tuned Llama-3-8B, quantised to GGUF
50%
less manual effort in automotive release integration, via Python + Jenkins CI
3+ yrs
GenAI in production under GDPR, from pre-sales scoping to deployed service

Selected work

Open source and production systems
Flagship · Open source · 2026

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An evaluation harness that scores RAG pipelines and agents straight from their OpenTelemetry traces: retrieval metrics, trajectory evaluation, LLM-as-judge with a calibration module that checks the judge against human labels, and a paired-bootstrap CI gate that blocks only statistically significant regressions. The benchmark is fully reproducible: committed traces and a judge cache re-score without an API key.

LanguagePython
InputOpenTelemetry traces
MethodLLM-as-judge
Statisticspaired bootstrap
Ships withreproducible benchmark

Work with me

Limited availability alongside my role at NFON
Fixed-price engagement

GenAI Production Readiness Audit

One week, fixed scope, fixed price. I review the system you have and tell you exactly what stands between it and production: architecture, retrieval quality, evaluation, and the GDPR and EU AI Act gaps that surface late and cost the most.

You leave with a report you can act on with or without me. Built for German Mittelstand teams and the agencies delivering for them.

Enquire about the audit
Fixed price €4,900
Duration5–6 days
LanguagesGerman or English
You receive
  • 01Architecture & retrieval-quality review
  • 02Evaluation plan: what to measure, and how you'll know it improved
  • 03GDPR & EU AI Act gap list by risk class
  • 04Written report with a prioritised fix list
  • 0590-minute workshop with your team

Experience & education

2019 to today
Years
Role
What it amounted to
since 2026
AI Engineer NFON AG · Remote, Germany
Conversational-intelligence features for a European cloud-communications platform: call transcription analysis, summarisation, and real-time agent assist. RAG and agentic workflows over customer-interaction data, GDPR and EU AI Act compliant, behind Python/FastAPI inference services with containerised CI/CD and automated quality evaluation.
2023 – 2026
Data & AI Engineer SII Technologies · Ingolstadt
Architected the enterprise RAG platform above, replacing naive top-k retrieval with hybrid search and cross-encoder reranking, and fine-tuned Llama-3-8B (QLoRA/Unsloth) to 98% valid-JSON extraction, quantised to GGUF for cheap self-hosted inference. Also the FastAPI backend of an automotive recommendation engine through to client demo, a Jira analytics solution (.NET + Power BI), and technical pre-sales, building the proof-of-concepts and architectures that turned prospects into signed projects.
2020 – 2022
Software Integration Engineer e.solutions GmbH · Ingolstadt
Python automation and Jenkins CI for automotive software releases, cutting manual integration effort by 50%, speeding up OEM release cycles and tidying up Artifactory artifact management.
since 2026
M.Sc., Artificial Intelligence TH Ingolstadt · part-time
Graduate study in AI alongside full-time engineering, with coursework and thesis aimed at LLM evaluation and agent reliability.
2019 – 2023
B.Eng., Engineering & Management TH Ingolstadt · grade 1.5 · Data Science, AI decision systems
Thesis at AIMotion Bavaria: clustering (K-means, Fuzzy c-means, Affinity Propagation) on unlabelled vehicle-trajectory data from the rounD dataset. A vehicle's spatial properties strongly predict its roundabout exit, and velocity profiles cluster tightly by exit, which makes velocity a reliable predictor of behaviour.
Certified Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer 2025 NVIDIA Certified Associate, Generative AI & LLMs 2025

Writing & speaking

Notes on getting GenAI past the pilot
2026 · Essay

I measured my RAG system before believing it

Reranking looked like an obvious win. I built a calibrated eval harness around it, with the judge checked against human labels and a paired bootstrap on the deltas, and that is how I found out how much of the win was real.

ReadEssay ↗
Codespanscore
Speaking on
01What the EU AI Act actually requires from your RAG system: an engineer's checklist
02Evaluating LLM output in production: the harness we wish we'd had on day one
03Why GenAI pilots die before production, and the three things that prevent it
Available for meetups and conferences in Germany, in German or English. Invite me to speak.
Contact

Is your GenAI system stuck between pilot and production?

Tell me where it broke. Thirty minutes, no pitch. If the audit isn't the right first step, I'll say so. Ingolstadt, Germany; remote across the EU.