Mohammad Abdul Basit

AI Researcher

Toronto, Ontario, Canada2 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Published research at EMNLP 2023.
Modernized legacy finance applications.
Experience in training foundational LLMs.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and AI specialist with strong software engineering and data analytics capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Api DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringSoftware ModernizationData AnalyticsNatural Language Processing

Other Skills

Spring BootSybase Adaptive ServerJavaKafkaMicroservicesVert.xEvent ProcessingLeadershipScientific ThinkingPython (Programming Language)JavaScriptC++C (Programming Language)Database Management System (DBMS)HTML

About

A graduate student pursuing Masters of Science in Applied Computing (MScAC) from the University of Toronto in the field of AI. I am currently working on training of foundational LLMs at AMD Have 2 years of industry expereince in software engineering which involved development of major finance analytics systems from scartch as well as moderninsing older applications. I have researched and published papers in leading conferences (including one at EMNLP) pertaining to fields of Natural Language Processing, Multi Modal Data and Online Social Networks. Open to opportunities to work in GenAI, Deep Learning, NLP and LLMs. I have had expereince in designing and developing entire projects end to end and would cherish any chance to build on my expereince.

Experience

2 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Amd

2 roles

Engineer - AI Performance

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · On-site

AI Researcher

May 2025 – Dec 2025 · 7 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · On-site

University of toronto

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2025 – Apr 2025 · 3 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · On-site

Teaching Assistant for the Intro to Programming course (CSC-111)

Publicis sapient

2 roles

Associate Software Development Engineer 2

Jan 2024 – Aug 2024 · 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Promoted as a result of excellent performance and recieved a merit increase which was limited to the top performers in the company.
Developed several APIs for easier interaction with the Benchmark Index module as well as increasing functionality along with quantum adapters for easier end retrieval of data and to increase availability.

Spring BootSybase Adaptive ServerAPI DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Associate Software Development Engineer 1

Jul 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Worked on multiple projects for Goldman Sachs. Independently worked on the modernization and reengineering of a legacy application of the company’s data platform concerned with market benchmark indexes and their analytics.
Transformed a single threaded core java application into an event driven architecture flow where the application receives both streaming and batch data from a Kafka queue and is processed using distributed micro-service based application written in the asynchronous Java Vert.x framework.
Reconciliation tests to ensure data values are accurate and surface out bugs from production applications dependent on the data.
Documentation for the old system in extreme detail and finding out areas for improvement while construction of new application.
Improved processing times and load times decreased from a week to a matter of seconds.

Spring BootSybase Adaptive ServerSoftware ModernizationData Analytics

Jamia millia islamia

Undergraduate Researcher

Jan 2022 – Jun 2022 · 5 mos · Delhi, India · Hybrid

Performed research on Natural Langauge Processing for Online Social Networks and Natural Disaster Response. Experimented with Multimodal data and hierarchical classification. My research was published at the (Core A*) EMNLP 2023 Main Conference.