Syed Alam Shah Bukhari
AI Engineer building RAG systems LLM Production Agents
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Building AI agents is easy. Building one you can trust with a real business workflow is harder.
I built a Freelance Admin Agent to explore that problem using Strands Agents SDK and Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Amazon Bedrock.
The working MVP takes manually provided client emails and turns...
A few months ago I shipped my first production RAG pipeline. Simple idea: upload a document, ask questions, get answers with citations.
The part nobody warns you about is everything after "it works on my laptop." ChromaDB breaking on cloud deployment. Secrets formatting silently...
Why I stopped using pure semantic search for RAG
When I built a hybrid retrieval system, I learned semantic search alone misses exact matches, things like IDs, codes, or specific terms that don't need "understanding," just exact lookup.
Combining vector search with keyword...
AI Equity Research Tool for the Pakistan Stock Exchange
An AI system that automates equity research for PSX listed companies (starting with ENGRO, HUBC, MCB), ingesting annual reports and generating cited, analysis backed answers instead of requiring investors to read hundreds of...
AI-Powered Browser Extension for Enterprise ERP Automation
Built a Microsoft Edge extension (Manifest V3) that uses LLM-driven decision-making to automate repetitive workflows inside Oracle EBS ERP starting with Purchase Requisition creation.
The extension reads the page, decides...
