Muaataz Ismaeel
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Muaataz Ismaeel

AI Engineer · LLMs, apps & NLP

I build LLM tools, apps and NLP pipelines with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, and I test what the AI writes before it ships.

Open to AI internships · Baku · Graduating Dec 2026

01Experience

  1. AI Engineer Intern · HAL-X

    Aug 2026 – Present

    Fine-tuned a transformer model that finds and masks personal data in documents, and built the LLM pipeline that creates and checks its training data. Now building validation pipelines for a new decision model with Claude Code.

    • Python
    • Hugging Face Transformers
    • LLM pipelines
    • Claude Code
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    • Fine-tuned a transformer model that finds and masks personal data in documents in several languages, with a rules layer for structured formats.
    • Built an LLM pipeline that generated a large labelled training dataset, with automatic checks for wrong labels, duplicates and data leakage.
    • Added new languages through a translation pipeline with validation, and tested the model on real documents and office file formats.
    • Now building validation pipelines for the training data of a new general-purpose decision model, using Claude Code and re-checking the AI-written code independently.
    • Coordinate a small team. I split the work, review and merge contributions, and write sprint plans.

    Work under NDA. Details stay general.

  2. Co-Founder & CTO · QuickRecap

    Jun 2026 – Present

    Hybrid 1st place · University Demo Day App Store Website

    AI podcast-summary app, live on the App Store with 150+ downloads and 1st place at University Demo Day. I built the AI pipeline (Gemini, Whisper, Deepgram) on a Supabase backend.

    • Swift
    • SwiftUI
    • Supabase
    • TypeScript
    • Gemini
    • Whisper
    • Deepgram
    • StoreKit 2
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    • Users share a Spotify or podcast link, pick a time range, and get a summary of the part they missed. Won 1st place at University Demo Day, hosted by SABAH.HUB and Baku ID.
    • Native iOS app (Swift, SwiftUI) live on the App Store with a companion website and 150+ downloads. An Android version in Kotlin is being prepared for a closed beta.
    • I designed the architecture and set the roadmap and UX, and built it with Claude Code. The app talks to a Supabase backend (Postgres and TypeScript edge functions), so API keys never leave the server.
    • Recap pipeline. It uses the publisher's transcript when there is one, otherwise it transcribes the audio on the server (Whisper via Groq, or Deepgram). Gemini writes the recap and answers follow-up questions. Episodes up to about 8 hours are summarized in parts and then combined (map-reduce).
    • Reliability. The backend switches to another Gemini model when one is down, falls back when a streamed answer stalls, and labels partial recaps clearly. Every key point and quote shows when it was said, so users can check it.
    • Shipped version 4.0 in October 2026, including StoreKit 2 subscriptions with server-side receipt checks. Tests cover end-to-end UI (Maestro), StoreKit and 144 server tests, and release testing caught about 8 release-blocking bugs. The first 10 minutes are recapped in about 19 seconds, and follow-up answers take about 3.
  3. AI Education Research & Market Analyst Intern · Kelly Tutors

    May 2026 – Aug 2026

    Remote (USA)

    Benchmarked EdTech platforms on topics, pricing and enrollment trends, and turned the findings into positioning recommendations.

    • Market research
    • EdTech

    Muaataz is one of the best researchers I've ever met. He's fantastic to work with, very professional and organized. He puts together spectacular presentations and goes above and beyond in so many ways.

    Kelly Kirk Founder, Kelly Tutors · Managed Muaataz directly Verified on LinkedIn
  4. Co-Founder & CTO · DetalTap

    Sep 2025 – Feb 2026

    Hybrid Telegram bot code

    Led the tech for a car-parts marketplace, from a Telegram bot prototype to a full marketplace website.

    • Telegram bot
    • Marketplace web app
    • Cursor
    • Product
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    • Led technical direction for a car-parts marketplace. Started with a Telegram bot prototype for part requests.
    • Then built a fully functional marketplace website with search, listings and seller onboarding. It was launch-ready but never launched publicly.
    • Presented DetalTap at University Demo Day (SABAH.HUB × Baku ID).

02Research & publications

NLPAI 2026 · Urumqi, China Jul 2026

Multimodal Fake-Information Detection for Low-Resource Language in Case of Azerbaijani Language

Accepted and presented · Best Presentation Award · to appear in ACM ICPS

Project lead · co-authored with A. Aliyev, B. Hasanov, I. Alishov, A. Huseynli, S. Rustamov

03Academic & personal projects

Explore 9 more projects Show fewer projects AI & NLP · ML & data · Engineering
  • Prompt-risk guardrail (Cursor Hackathon Baku) Built in one day

    Led a team that built a prompt-risk guardrail prototype in one day at Cursor Hackathon Baku, then pitched it and delivered the final demo.

    • Hackathon
    • Prompt security
    • Team lead
  • Azerbaijani news classification 83.2% test accuracy Apr 2025

    Six-way news topic classifier for Azerbaijani text using TF-IDF features. A linear SVM beat Naive Bayes (77.6%) and a decision tree (72.3%).

    • scikit-learn
    • TF-IDF
    • Plotly
  • Forest cover type at scale 95.1% val. accuracy Apr 2025

    About 500k rows and 54 features. Compared classifiers, then soft voting with weak voters removed. A second experiment majority-voted 1,200 tiny trees.

    • pandas
    • NumPy
    • scikit-learn
  • Logistic regression from scratch 89% vs 93% scikit-learn Jun 2025

    Sigmoid, log loss and batch gradient descent written by hand, with a decision-boundary plot, then checked against scikit-learn on the same data.

    • NumPy
    • matplotlib
  • Turbo.az car price modeling 3 solvers compared Feb 2025

    Car prices from messy real marketplace listings. Hand-written gradient descent, scikit-learn and the normal equation, cross-checked against each other.

    • NumPy
    • pandas
    • matplotlib
  • Cleaning robot (MDP + Q-learning) Planning vs RL May 2025

    Grid robot with dirt, walls and movement slip. Solved with value and policy iteration, then compared against a tabular Q-learning agent.

    • Python
    • NumPy
    • Jupyter
  • Osmos 3D in WebGL Playable demo 2025

    Team computer-graphics project. A browser 3D game with custom shaders, seeded world generation, collisions and camera controls.

    • JavaScript
    • WebGL
    • GLSL
  • International football analysis 145 years of matches Mar 2023

    Notebook analysis of international results (1872–2017) covering team dominance, penalties, friendlies and top scorers.

    • pandas
    • Jupyter
  • Book management system Led a team of 4 May 2024

    Java Swing desktop app with authentication, CRUD, sorting and filtering, built with shared Git history and code reviews.

    • Java
    • Swing
    • Git

04Skills & education

ML & NLP
  • Python
  • scikit-learn
  • TensorFlow
  • XGBoost
  • MLflow
  • Hugging Face Transformers
LLMs & AI tools
  • OpenAI API
  • Gemini API
  • Groq API
  • Whisper
  • Deepgram
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Cursor
Data
  • pandas
  • NumPy
  • SQL
  • Matplotlib
  • Plotly
  • Tableau
  • Jupyter
Engineering
  • Git / GitHub
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Swift / SwiftUI
  • Supabase
  • Java
  • WebGL / GLSL
Languages
Turkmen (Native)English (Native)Arabic (Fluent)Azerbaijani (Upper-intermediate)Chinese (Beginner, HSK2)
  • ADA University · B.Sc. Computer Science Graduating December 2026
  • British School in Baku · Including NCUK Foundation Year 2012 – 2022