Abid Ali

Engineer building open-source developer tooling for LLM infrastructure — Model Context Protocol servers and security scanners, API cost profilers, and output-stability analyzers, written in Python and TypeScript and published to PyPI. Six years of independent full-stack work behind that, integrating LLM features into client products with Python, FastAPI, React and Next.js. Looking for a full-time role on an engineering team.

AI Engineer - BuildWithAbid - Islamabad

(2026-01)

• Build and maintain open-source tooling for the Model Context Protocol: security scanners that inspect MCP servers for unsafe tool definitions and configuration risk, a gateway that reverse-proxies traffic between MCP clients and servers, a testing framework for MCP server authors, and a server exposing the Shopify Admin API for order and product search.
• Built a zero-config Python profiler that wraps OpenAI and Anthropic clients in two lines and attributes API spend by feature and by file, surfacing retry waste, context bloat, and model-downgrade opportunities. Published to PyPI under the MIT licence.
• Built a command-line stability analyzer that runs a prompt repeatedly against a chosen provider, scores pairwise similarity across responses, and reports an output-consistency rating with inline diffs and a JSON artifact. Published to PyPI.
• Built a terminal benchmarking CLI that dispatches a single prompt to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Groq in parallel and compares latency, cost and output side by side.
• Work in Python and TypeScript across the MCP SDK, the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, SQLite, and Ink/React for terminal interfaces; handle packaging, versioning and release to PyPI.

AI & Full-Stack Developer - Independent - Islamabad · Remote

(2020-01 - 2026-01)

• Integrated LLM capabilities into clients' existing products through Python and FastAPI services exposed over REST APIs.
• Built AI automation replacing manual business processes, including document processing, content generation, and workflow orchestration.
• Developed the applications these systems ran in — React, Next.js and TypeScript frontends, admin dashboards, and internal tooling.
• Designed and maintained data layers in PostgreSQL and MongoDB, including schema design and query optimisation.
• Deployed and maintained production systems on AWS, Docker and Vercel.
• Worked with clients end to end: requirements, architecture, delivery, and ongoing maintenance.

Career Break

(2011-01 - 2020-01)

Health and well-being

• Extended break from full-time work. Returned to development in 2020 and have built continuously since.

MSc - Computer Science - University of Peshawar (2009-01 - 2011-01)

BSc - Computer Science - University of Peshawar (2006-01 - 2008-01)