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AI/ML SWE Intern @ Tatari · Seeking Winter 2027 AI/ML Internships
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Aamir Khan, CS Master's student at UC Riverside

I work on production ML systems that serve millions of predictions a day. I really enjoy digging into why systems misbehave, and I'd say that my strength lies in my debugging skills. Before all this, I taught myself AI by starting with the fundamentals and building projects from scratch.

Tatari: AI/ML Software Engineer Intern on the Media Intelligence (MINT) team, behind their TV ad measurement models. I work on the production side of our AI: shipping it, watching it, and testing new models without risking what customers see. A few things I've worked on:

  • Found a four-month-old bug that had been quietly returning nothing for ~3.9M data lookups a day, by comparing how the data was being saved against how it was being read, and fixed it before it reached real traffic
  • Revived an LLM service that flags TV ads likely to fail network compliance, validated against 84 ads networks had already rejected, by diagnosing why it had never run in production and writing its detection prompts
  • Benchmarked a new video processing mode in our Gemini pipeline, advertised at 88% fewer tokens, measured it failing 22% of the time at ~15x the tokens, and recommended against adopting it
  • Built a champion/challenger routing system that scores 3.4M+ rows against new models nightly without any of it reaching a customer, then cut that run from 145 minutes to 80 by running the models concurrently
  • Cut writes to a production database by 49% (7.98M to 4.07M rows) after reading the code and proving an entire category of data was never used by any model

Handshake AI: AI Trainer / ML Specialist, Frontier-Lab AI Fellowship (Oct 2025 to Jun 2026). Evaluated image model outputs and designed adversarial prompt suites that surfaced systematic failure modes.

DeepLearning.AI: currently stress-testing pre-release AI products and courses as an AI product tester.

Institute of Knowledge: Islamic Studies Instructor (Sept 2023 to Aug 2026). Weekly teaching that kept me fluent at explaining hard ideas simply.

Seeking AI/ML and software engineering internships and new grad roles for Winter 2027 and beyond.


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Core
Python · PyTorch · LLMs / RAG / Fine-Tuning · AI Agents · LangChain / LangGraph · MCP · FastAPI

Production & MLOps
Databricks · Model Serving · Shadow Deployment · ML Monitoring · MLflow · Airflow · CI/CD · Docker · Hugging Face


Featured Projects

Project Tech Description Demo
Text2SQL LLaMA Analyst LLaMA-2, LoRA, 4-bit Quantization Fine-tuned LLaMA-2-7B with LoRA and 4-bit quantization to turn plain English into SQL queries you can actually run. Demo
GPT From Scratch PyTorch, Transformers GPT built by hand. Self-attention, autoregressive decoding, no framework shortcuts. Demo
Snaption PyTorch, EfficientNet, Transformers Pip-installable image-captioning package, built from scratch in PyTorch. Generates a caption in ~1s per image on CPU, with reproducible training pipelines and pre-trained model releases. Demo
Pixelate PyQt6, Firebase, OpenAI Pixel-art editor with accessibility built in. Real-time colorblindness filters and Pixi, an AI assistant for drawing ideas and feedback. Demo
bat-code (in progress) Deep Agents, LangGraph Batman-themed coding TUI built on the Deep Agents library. Turning a capable agent into a coding tool you actually want to keep open. Soon

Beyond Code

When I'm not coding or teaching, I'm probably grabbing boba with friends, skating around campus, building a LEGO set, getting lost in a good book, or gaming cozily (Pokopia is my jam!).


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  1. Snaption Snaption Public

    📸 My first deep dive into multi-modal ML! Built an end-to-end image captioning system from scratch using PyTorch, combining computer vision (EfficientNet) and NLP (Transformers). Trained on 8K imag…

    Python

  2. GPT-From-Scratch GPT-From-Scratch Public

    🧸 A fully custom GPT-style language model built from scratch using PyTorch and trained on Winnie-the-Pooh! Explored the core mechanics of self-attention, autoregressive text generation, and modular…

    Python

  3. Text2SQL-LLaMA-Analyst Text2SQL-LLaMA-Analyst Public

    🦙 A fine-tuned LLaMA-2 model that translates natural language questions into SQL queries. It uses LoRA and 4-bit quantization to enable efficient training on limited hardware. Explore how large lan…

    Jupyter Notebook

  4. bat-code bat-code Public

    A Batman-themed AI coding TUI powered by deepagents

    Python 1

  5. Pixelate Pixelate Public

    🎨 Pixelate is an inclusive pixel-art editor built for everyone, especially artists with color vision deficiencies. With built-in colorblind-friendly filters, an AI assistant, and a public gallery, …

    Python 1

  6. Reddit-Crawler Reddit-Crawler Public

    🕷️ Crawl and dive into Reddit! A web crawler that fetches posts & comments based on your interests, with optional search tools so you can explore what the internet has to say. Built with multithrea…

    Python 1