AI/ML Product & Engineering Leader

Waris Amin

13+ years building AI/ML products — from computer-vision-based security systems to leading Process Discovery, Data Redaction, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation initiatives.

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01 — Introduction

About

I'm an AI/ML product and engineering leader with 13+ years of experience building intelligent solutions across enterprise and government landscapes. I specialize in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), computer vision, NLP, and privacy-enhanced systems — architecting AWS serverless pipelines and scalable AI/ML models that optimize performance and ensure compliance.

I currently lead AI/ML initiatives, including Process Discovery, Data Redaction, and Privacy-Enhanced AI systems, mentoring cross-functional Agile teams and driving innovation from research to production.

  • Computer Vision
  • RAG & LLMs
  • Privacy Engineering
  • AWS Serverless
  • Python
  • Team Leadership
13+
Years building software & AI/ML
1st
Learning, adaptive CV-based firewall shipped
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AI/ML programs currently led end-to-end
02 — Career

Experience

Manager – AI/ML

Oct 2016 – Present
Trantor Software · Chandigarh, India

Leading end-to-end AI/ML initiatives spanning Process Discovery, Data Redaction, and Privacy-Enhanced AI systems. Designing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for scalable enterprise knowledge retrieval, building synthetic data generation pipelines, and architecting AWS serverless solutions for real-time PII masking. Mentor engineers and data scientists across Agile teams.

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Boston Analytics · Delhi NCR, India

Designed and implemented data ingestion, management, and reporting pipelines in Python/Django for large-scale financial datasets. Built analytical applications for strategic data interpretation, including sentiment analysis of news and financial data to assess candidate influence on company valuation for Russell Reynolds Associates.

Software Engineer

Feb 2012 – Jan 2015
Ikraft Software · Srinagar, India

Launched the AlgoTrader web platform and built JKCPIS, a government data digitization platform, plus a role-based File Management System for secure document handling across hierarchical organizations.

03 — Selected work

Projects

Privacy Enhanced Gateway project
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Privacy Enhanced Gateway (FortressIQ)

Worked on FortressIQ's Privacy Enhanced Gateway (PEG) — the world's first adaptive, learning computer vision-based firewall. Built the core computer-vision OCR model, which outperforms Google Vision OCR specifically on software/UI screenshots, to recognize objects and labels on a screen and redact private data locally before it ever leaves the customer's network — letting FortressIQ analyze enterprise workflows without exposing PII.

  • Computer Vision
  • OCR
  • PII Redaction
  • Deep Learning
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Process Discovery

Currently lead Process Discovery — the platform that grew out of FortressIQ's computer-vision technology following its 2021 acquisition. Built on synthetic data pipelines and AWS serverless privacy automation, it captures and visualizes business processes across mainframes, VDI, Windows, and web apps in real time, turning those insights into one-click automation.

  • AWS Serverless
  • Synthetic Data
  • Process Mining
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Kognetics

Kognetics is an AI platform bringing automation and analytics to M&A and investment decision-making for private equity firms, investment banks, and corporates. I built the financial data ingestion process, reporting software, and website for Kognetics.

  • Python
  • Data Ingestion
  • Analytics
About Kognetics
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AlgoTrader

Launched the AlgoTrader web platform at Ikraft Software, improving automated trading efficiency by 20% through real-time price tracking and API integration with Yahoo Finance and Quandl.

  • Real-time APIs
  • Python
  • FinTech
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JKCPIS

Built JKCPIS, a government data digitization platform, improving data quality through validation, reporting, and analytics modules — along with a role-based File Management System for secure document handling across hierarchical organizations.

  • Django
  • PostgreSQL
  • Reporting
04 — Toolkit

Skills

CV

Computer Vision & OCR

Built a custom computer-vision OCR model that outperforms Google Vision OCR on software/UI screenshots, powering FortressIQ's Privacy Enhanced Gateway.

AI

RAG & LLM Systems

Design and implement enterprise-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems for scalable knowledge retrieval and automation.

DP

Privacy & PII Automation

Architect AWS serverless pipelines for real-time PII masking and data redaction, powering privacy-enhanced systems like FortressIQ's PEG.

SD

Synthetic Data & Model Optimization

Build synthetic data generation pipelines and custom loss functions that accelerate model training and reduce reliance on real-world datasets.

PD

Process Discovery & RPA

Currently lead Process Discovery, capturing and visualizing business processes to turn them into automation.

PM

AI/ML Product Leadership

13+ years leading AI/ML product strategy and roadmaps, coordinating cross-functional Agile teams, and mentoring engineers and data scientists.

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Cloud & Serverless

AWS Lambda, Fargate, and GCP-based microservices architecture for scalable, compliant AI systems.

PY

Python, Django & Flask

Primary stack for backend services, automation pipelines, RPA bots, and modular web applications.

PG

PostgreSQL & Data Engineering

ETL pipelines and analytical dashboards backed by PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Matplotlib, and Kibana.

05 — Contact

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