Taha Zaidi.
- ●Shipping Vector engagements
- ●Senior year, FAST NUCES
- ●Rereading anything I can find on the Cold War
Who I am.
I'm Taha. I'm 21, from Karachi, studying CS at FAST NUCES — currently in my third year.
I started Vector in 2026 with one of my closest friends. It's a small AI studio. We take projects in two-week sprints, build them properly, and hand them off. Mostly agents, RAG systems, and full-stack MVPs for early- stage teams.
I've also spent the last few years on the other side of the table — closing sponsorships, designing brands, and running ops for some of the largest student tech festivals in Pakistan. PROCOM '26 was the biggest one. We raised PKR 1 Crore in sponsorships — an all-time record for the festival.
I don't really think of engineering and business as separate things. They both come down to the same instinct — figure out what someone needs, and ship the smallest thing that gives it to them.
Where I've been.
A mix of engineering, GTM, and ops — the way real products actually get built.
- May 2026 — PresentRemote / Karachi
Co-Founder & AI Engineer · Vector — AI Automation Studio
- 01Co-founded a two-person AI studio shipping full-stack MVPs and AI infrastructure for early-stage startups on <2-week fixed-scope sprints.
- 02Shipping client products: an autonomous support-triage agent, a domain-specific RAG platform, and B2B SaaS MVPs.
- 03Own the full lifecycle — discovery, scoping, delivery, and hand-off; bridge engineering with commercial GTM.
LangChainn8npgvectorLlamaIndexNext.jsStripe - Sep 2025 — Apr 2026Karachi, Pakistan
Director, Marketing & Brand Partnerships · PROCOM '26 — FAST NUCES
- 01Led a 40+ person marketing team inside a 600+ executive committee for Pakistan's largest student tech festival.
- 02Closed 50+ corporate sponsorships generating PKR 1 Cr+ (~$36K) — an all-time revenue record in PROCOM's 25-year history.
- 03Ran C-suite negotiations end-to-end and architected an integrated GTM across digital, on-ground, PR, and influencer channels.
B2B SalesGTMPartnershipsBrand - Jul 2025 — Aug 2025Hybrid / Denton, TX
Tech Consultant · Bytes Platform
- 01Consulted for US-based business owners and veteran-owned businesses across CRM/ERP, AI chatbots, e-commerce, SEO, and brand revamps.
- 02Contributed to 10+ shipped client solutions — LLM chatbots, custom web apps, AI workflow automations.
- 03Translated business requirements into technical specs and coordinated cross-functional delivery.
LLM ChatbotsShopifyWordPressn8n - Sep 2024 — May 2025Karachi, Pakistan
Executive Head, Branding & Design · ACM NUCES — FAST NUCES
- 01Led the full rebrand and digital strategy for Developers Day 2025 — FAST's largest annual tech event with 2,500+ attendees and 30+ companies.
- 02Directed ACM NUCES social media, content production, and engagement strategy for the 2024–25 term.
BrandDesignEvents - Jun 2022 — PresentRemote
Graphic Designer & Video Editor · Freelance — Self-Employed
- 01Delivered 50+ paid projects across Pakistan, US, and Australia — shortform content, After Effects motion, logo & brand identity.
- 02Maintained consistent 5-star ratings on Upwork alongside full-time studies.
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What I've built.
Multi-agent systems, RAG, computer vision, and the occasional compiler. Most ship to production; a few stay weekend experiments.
Baymax.app
Hierarchical multi-agent career-coaching platform.
Custom orchestrator managing 4 specialized agents — Resume Analyzer, Voice Interview Coach, Job Scout, Roadmap Planner — on LLaMA 3.3 70B via Groq, wrapped in a SafetyGuard layer for prompt-injection and PII handling. RAG pipeline (ChromaDB + HuggingFace) for resume-to-JD matching with ATS scoring, real-time voice interviews via Groq Whisper, and a CSP-based 90-day roadmap planner using AC-3 + backtracking with MRV.
Ustaad
AI-powered recruitment & service marketplace for Pakistan's informal labor market.
Full-stack workforce platform connecting daily-wage laborers, skilled professionals, and businesses. Hybrid AI matching (TF-IDF + cosine similarity, matrix factorization) benchmarked on Hit-Rate@5 / MRR. 11 GoF design patterns and Redis cache-aside + PostgreSQL GIN/B-tree indexes — cut p95 API latency from ~800 ms to <200 ms.
Vyse
Real-time AI workplace-safety intelligence.
Real-time safety monitoring using YOLOv8 object detection and MediaPipe facial-landmark analysis (EAR drowsiness detection) to flag PPE violations, device usage, and anomalous activity. Modular 4-agent architecture (Vision, Risk, Alert, Analytics) over an event-driven decision engine and an async video-inference pipeline.
AeroWatch
UAV weather-intelligence dashboard with live telemetry.
Real-time telemetry visualization and weather intelligence dashboard for UAV operations — engineered with a responsive React 18 + TypeScript front-end and live data pipelines.
ShopSense
Neural collaborative-filtering recommender.
Neural Collaborative Filtering recommender combining GMF and MLP towers, served behind a Flask API. Benchmarked against classical baselines on standard recsys metrics.
RetroLang
Hand-built compiler for an arcade DSL.
End-to-end compiler with all six classical phases — lexer, parser, semantic analyzer, IR generation, optimization, and code generation — for a small arcade-style domain-specific language.
What I reach for.
Tools I use instinctively when something needs to be built quickly and well.
The other stuff.
What I do when I'm not at the laptop. It probably says more about how I think than the rest of this site.
- 01
Anime
Pretty much my evening routine. - 02
Astrophysics & space
I want to see Earth from outer space someday. - 03
Debate
Two Outstanding Diplomacy wins at IBA MUNIK. - 04
Economics
Studied it at A-Levels. Still read about it most days. - 05
Geopolitics & history
Pakistan, India, the Cold War, the Ottomans — pick a topic.
Frames.
I'll add photos here as I take them. Karachi, builds, late nights, occasional travel.
// dropping soon...
Say hi.
Best for: AI/agent builds, RAG systems, MVPs, and consulting engagements. Worst for: cold sales pitches. I usually reply within a day.