Irfan Ali — AI Engineer, BengaluruI build AI tools that turn messy information into data you can actually use.
Looking for full-time AI engineering work — Bengaluru or remote. I can start now.
Before this I was Head of AI at Kuration AI in Hong Kong, and led AI engineering at Luminous Power Technologies in India.
Selected work
Three systems I designed and built end to end. Open a case study for the engineering detail.
Open source
Twelve Python libraries I published — retrieval, agents, scraping, and fallbacks when a model fails.
Hybrid BM25 + dense retrieval with RRF fusion. Navigation-first RAG for long documents.
Apify Actors
Public data tools on Apify. 3 here; all 20 on the Actors page.
Writing
Notes on what broke, and how I measured it.
Eval / postmortem
Evaluating the Stacksift verdict pipeline
I ran a frozen eval on 20 companies and wrote up every miss — including an optimizer that made the score worse.
About
AI engineer in Bengaluru. Twelve Python libraries, two papers, and a few things I've built and shipped. Full profile.
I'm looking for a full-time AI engineering job on a product team. Bengaluru or remote.
Since December 2025 I've been building my own things: a tool that reads company websites and works out what products they sell, a system that handles check-in calls and writes up what was said, and a stock and billing app a distributor in Nepal uses every day. Twelve Python libraries on PyPI alongside them.
Irfan Ali
Master's in Data Science & AI, IISER Tirupati (2026) · B.Tech CSE, Alliance University
Working on my own things since December 2025. Before that, Head of AI at Kuration AI in Hong Kong, and before that I started and led the AI engineering work at Luminous Power Technologies in India, reporting to the CTO.
- -12 published Python libraries on PyPI; 20 public Apify Actors
- -Built systems that switch between AI providers automatically when one fails
- -Applied research (2025) DOI 10.54105/ijainn.a1112.06011225; DOI 10.54105/ijainn.F1106.05061025
- -ORCID 0000-0003-0022-3047
- -I write things down. Most of my work happens async.
- -I check whether something works before I show it off.
- -I reply within a day on weekdays.
This is my personal site. DataCortex IQ is just the entity the domain sits under.
AI Engineer
DataCortex · Dec 2025 – Present · India
Built the AI products end to end, from architecture to deployment and evaluation: a tool that reads a company's website and works out what products they sell (flagging uncertain results for human review), an evaluation set of companies with known answers to measure how accurate it really is, a system that handles check-in calls and writes up what was said, and a stock and billing app that a distributor in Nepal uses every day. Also published twelve Python libraries.
Head of AI
Kuration AI · Jun 2024 – Nov 2025 · Hong Kong
Joined early to build the AI platform and the AI features customers used. Built a research tool that filled in missing company data from web search and the companies' own sites, stopping once it had enough evidence; a reliability layer that returned a controlled result instead of a wrong one and switched providers when one failed; monitoring and evals that traced a failure to the exact step; and a fit score that said "not qualified" when evidence was thin instead of guessing.
Senior Manager – Data & AI, R&D
Luminous Power Technologies · Aug 2023 – Jun 2024 · India
Started and led the company's AI engineering work, reporting to the CTO. Built Luminous Genie, an assistant that routed requests across business and engineering workflows, and Eagle Eye, a sizing tool where the numbers came from fixed engineering rules rather than the model guessing. Built and led a team delivering AI products across sales, R&D and manufacturing.
Data Analytics & Automation Associate
Lynk · Feb 2022 – Jul 2023 · India
Improved search so clients found the right expert faster. Built data pipelines, APIs and internal tools.
Head of Data & Analytics
brainsfeed · Aug 2018 – Feb 2022 · Hong Kong
First data hire. Built the data function from scratch, built systems for understanding and recommending content, and led a distributed team of 10+.
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