FAIZAN KHAN

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Hi, I am Faizan Khan! An AI builder and mentor in Geneva. I turn messy human problems into AI tools that actually ship.

Currently open to AI / ML roles — see my selected work

About

A builder and mentor,
not just a model‑caller.

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I build AI tools end to end, and I bring the people who will use them along for the ride. Most projects start the same way, with a conversation with someone who actually has the problem, long before a line of it gets written down.

That has meant an accessibility platform for disabled transit riders, scoped with disability organisations rather than guessed at. LLM agents and evaluation systems running in production. ML training for a community of more than a hundred people, most of whom had never trained a model.

Those findings, not my assumptions, drive the design.

What pulls me in is work with something at stake. I am comfortable with ambiguity and thin budgets, and quick to separate what genuinely needs to exist from what merely sounds impressive.

5
disability profiles scored, not one binary label
9
retrieval strategies fused into one ranking layer
40%
faster data retrieval for non-technical staff
10+
hackathon wins and placements, national and worldwide

What I bring to a team

Five overlapping strengths: the AI build, the engineering underneath it, the research rigour around it, the design layer on top, and the human work that makes it land.

Selected work

Things I've built end to end

Scoped, built, and shipped: backend to model to the humans on the other side.

Project 01Accessibility

AIBility

Disability profiles scored5

  • FastAPI + WebSocket
  • Groq LLaMA-3.3-70B
  • faster-whisper voice

A voice-booking agent for Geneva's TPG Flex, for people who cannot use the app, plus per-stop scoring in place of one misleading label.

GitHub

01 / 04

Project 02Research

RCnum Graph-RAG

Retrieval recall0.88

  • GraphDB + SPARQL
  • ChromaDB embeddings
  • Nine-strategy hybrid

13,640 sixteenth-century Geneva records, queryable in plain French, answered with citations.

GitHub

02 / 04

Project 03Urbanism

LivingCities

Indicators, 5 pillars20

  • Cognee knowledge graph
  • FastAPI + Next.js
  • Verbatim source quotes

Cities scored on what they have written down, not what they promise. Every verdict carries a source quote.

Project 04Internal tools

Talk to a Database

Faster retrieval40%

  • LangChain
  • Few-shot prompting
  • MySQL

Retail staff query a database in English instead of SQL. It quietly removed a daily bottleneck.

GitHub

04 / 04

Experience & education

  1. 2026 to present

    Founding Engineer

    DevArq

    Built the data and automation layer: a scraping and enrichment pipeline over roughly 200 Swiss firms, scored for lead quality, feeding Gmail API outreach tooling. Client sites for architecture and design studios on top of it.

    devarq.tech arcosdesign.net

  2. Sep 2025 to Sep 2027

    MSc Computer Science

    Université de Genève

    Applied NLP, retrieval-augmented generation, human-centred AI, and reproducible scientific computing.

  3. Sep 2025 to present

    IT Head

    GESMA, Geneva English-Speaking Muslims Association

    Handle the organisation's IT and web presence, making it easier for newcomers in Geneva to find and join.

    gesma.ch

  4. Jul 2023 to Jul 2024

    Data Science / ML Lead

    Robogyan Society

    Turned a 100+ member group into capable practitioners, running hands-on workshops for mixed technical and non-technical members, and became the person people came to with ML questions.

    robogyan.tech

  5. Jul to Aug 2022

    Data Science Intern

    TwoWaits Pvt Ltd

    Built a content-based recommender over 5,000+ items using cosine similarity, above 90% accuracy.

  6. 2020 to 2024

    BTech Information Technology

    GGSIPU, Delhi. GPA 8.2 / 10

    • National Winner, Innovate@Sigfest
    • 4th Worldwide, Considition 2022
    • Winner, Glitch Hackathon SNU
    • 1st Runner-Up, NPCI ML Hackathon

Let’s build
something that matters.

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Created by Faizan Khan

Location

Geneva
Delhi