shahad.
Sr. AI Engineer & Team Lead · Delineate (YC W25)

Hi, I'm Shahad.I build AI that pharma can trust.

Agents, document extraction and the evals behind them. Bangla NLP on the side.

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10
AI engineers at Delineate
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One of the calmest, most level headed technical leaders I have worked with.
Nafeo AlamLead Software Engineer, Delineate

01Selected work

1 / 6What I've shipped at Delineate
Trust · 2026

Every extracted value cites its source

A citation audit trail for clinical documents: each number traces to its page, table and position in the PDF. Cited cells went from 20% to 49% on covariate extraction.

Agents · 2026
  1. 01read the paper✓
  2. 02extract the model spec✓
  3. 03build it in nlmixr2✓
  4. 04replicate the figures

Sidekick, an agent for pharma modelling

Plans and runs PopPK replication and model-based meta-analysis in R and Python notebooks, with a scientist signing off at each checkpoint.

Agents · 2025plannerragcode execmemory

Multi-agent research chat

LangGraph over Claude, Gemini and OpenAI — Qdrant RAG, Jupyter-kernel code execution, Postgres checkpointing, SSE streaming.

Infra · 2025

Document parsing, rebuilt on vLLM

Ray on Kubernetes. Fixed production memory leaks and pod-scaling issues along the way.

Evals
ground truth
dose: 10 mg/kg
prediction
dose: 10 mg/kg ✓

An eval harness that gates every release

Side-by-side truth vs prediction with LLM-as-judge scoring, in front of every extraction and chart-element API.

Bangla NLP · 2021–2024

Making NLP work for Bangla

ASR, lemmatization, NER and language-model pretraining — two papers and a 25k-download toolkit.

02Research & open source

NAACL 2025BanNERDBenchmark dataset and context-driven approach for Bangla NER.EMNLP 2023BanLemmaRule + dictionary lemmatizer. 96.36% on human-annotated data.
PyPI · unicodeconverter
25k+
downloads · Bijoy → Unicode
ContributorHugging Face TransformersMerged PRs, incl. a SentencePiece tokenizer fix.

03Writing

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PythonGoLangGraphvLLMRayKubernetesQdrantPyTorchTransformers

04 · Journey

  1. Delineate (YC W25) · Sr. AI Engineer & Team Lead2024 →
  2. Giga Tech Limited · Senior ML Engineer2022–24
  3. REVE Systems · Software Engineer2021–22
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