AliasgarZakir Merchant

“Software Developer at Amazon Robotics who co-developed a congestion-aware path planning system optimizing robot routes across 23 warehouses. Built and operated a real-time, service-integrated pipeline using AWS (AppConfig, DynamoDB), Java, and Redis caching, and has hands-on experience debugging robot behavior on-site with rigorous testing and staged releases.”

“Asset Management Risk professional at Fidelity Investments who built and productionized an agentic RAG platform enabling compliance and analysts to query 10,000+ fund documents with cited answers in seconds. Implemented structure-aware semantic chunking (AWS Textract), hierarchical retrieval, and hybrid search to raise accuracy from 68% to 94%, and built an evaluation framework tracking accuracy/latency/cost/hallucinations—delivering 40+ hours/month saved and zero critical production failures.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience migrating a robotics project from ARM to AMD by building a Dockerized environment with PyTorch/CUDA dependencies, improving data processing and battery efficiency. Has integrated ROS 2 nodes for a Time-of-Flight camera and debugged motion-planning issues (tight-turn stopping) using data collection and iterative tuning; also built custom robots in Webots for sensor/actuator-driven behaviors.”

“AI engineer who built a production e-commerce system that analyzes product images alongside sales and demographic data to generate actionable creative recommendations, now used by 20+ clients. Also built orchestrated document/agent pipelines (Airflow, LangGraph) including a compliance drift detector auditing 401 compliance documents, with an emphasis on traceability, logging, and production integration.”