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Umair Khokhar - AI & Data Lead in San Francisco, CA

Umair Khokhar

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI Platforms for Enterprise B2B SaaS

BaseIQWilmington UniversitySan Francisco, CA15 Years ExperienceDirector LevelWorks On-Site

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Technical leader/player-coach who architected and shipped an end-to-end computer vision pricing system for a major North American auto seller, using Go + Ray + AWS SageMaker in a low-latency distributed inference architecture. Strong in production governance (logs/tracing/guardrails/AppSec), reliability incident ownership (DNS limits affecting 20% traffic), and measurable delivery acceleration (deployment cycle 16→4 days; delivery speed 5→2 days) through process optimization and AI-assisted enablement.

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Key Strengths

  • End-to-end architecture ownership for production computer vision system (real-time vehicle price estimation)
  • Built low-latency distributed inference pipeline using Go, Ray, and AWS SageMaker
  • Established CI/CD and drove delivery via structured PR reviews with clear pillars (convention, performance, security, business requirements)
  • Mentored engineers new to Go; improved code quality/performance (e.g., reduced memory footprint via pointer usage)
  • Production reliability ownership: mitigated intermittent DNS failures impacting ~20% of traffic; implemented scaling, caching, and escalation workflow
  • Improved deployment velocity from 16 days to 4 days using process-focused coaching and metrics
  • Increased delivery speed from 5 days to 2 days by empowering teams and leveraging AI agents while maintaining quality
  • Strong stakeholder management: translated ambiguous requests into scoped, productionized deliverables with defined 'done' criteria

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Experience

AI & Data LeadBaseIQ · Mar 2026 – Present
Director of Software EngineeringCox Automotive · Jan 2025 – Mar 2026
Lead Principal Engineer / ArchitectFyusion · Dec 2019 – Jan 2025
Software Engineering ManagerHubBase · Jan 2018 – Dec 2019
Software Engineering ManagerTezro Solutions · Jan 2014 – Jan 2018
Software DeveloperLokalMotion · Jan 2011 – Jan 2014

Education

Wilmington Universitymaster, Information Systems (2019)
PAF KIETbachelor, Computer Science (2012)

Awards

  • Patent Pending: Event-Driven Integration Platform for Dynamic Multi-Action Execution Graphs

Languages

English

Certifications

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)Cyber Risk Management CertificationHubSpot Certified Developer

Publications

2 publications

LLM feature steering (transformer representation intervention, activation steering)Event-driven integration platforms for dynamic multi-action execution graphs (patent pending)

Memberships

  • OWASP Contributor: No-Code/Low-Code Top 10

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Umair KhokharDirector-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI Platforms for Enterprise B2B SaaS