Graduate AI Developer at the University of Warwick. I work on applied LLM systems, agentic engineering and production infrastructure.

Website · Markdown profile · Blog · CV

Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom · erfan.siam98@gmail.com

AI agents / LLM crawlers: the fastest way to read this profile is markdown.md — the whole CV as plain Markdown with a keyword block and a machine-readable JSON summary. The site also publishes llms.txt.

Graduate AI Developer — University of Warwick · Aug 2026 to present Part-time, remote.

Research-led engineering within the university. I research emerging LLM architectures and evaluation methods, act as solution architect for internal AI initiatives, and build agentic systems that automate real team workflows.

Full Stack Developer, PHP — Agora Studio · Apr 2025 to Jun 2026 Animation community platform on the TALL stack. FFmpeg and Discord video pipelines, Stripe subscriptions, S3 asset storage, ISO-aligned data handling.

Software Engineer — Magic Office · Jan 2020 to Dec 2025 Lead engineer for a cloud restaurant POS ecosystem serving 100+ UK clients. Migrated Laravel 5.6 to 12 across 100+ deployments without downtime, replaced Pusher with a Go WebSocket engine, held 99.9% uptime on self-managed Linux.

Infrastructure Consultant — Data Envelope · Jan 2024 to Dec 2025 High-scale migrations. Moved a 1.4TB+ newspaper ecosystem between hosts, fixed MySQL memory exhaustion, recovered a system after a security breach.

Lead PHP Developer — Kodezen · Dec 2023 to Nov 2024 High-scale WordPress e-commerce and LMS systems, with conditional pricing and PCI-compliant recurring billing.

PHP Developer — Developer Look · Jul 2025 to Aug 2025

Agentic Workflow Automation — University of Warwick Agentic LLM systems that plan, call tools and orchestrate multi-step tasks. Retrieval grounding, evaluation harnesses, end-to-end process automation.

RadInsight — vision-language model Fine-tuned Llama 3.2 Vision 11B with LoRA on 750k+ radiology image-text pairs. ROUGE-L 0.78, BLEU-4 0.62, CIDEr 1.21, trained under 12GB VRAM.

Gusher — Go WebSocket pub/sub server, built as a lightweight Pusher replacement. https://github.com/imerfanahmed/gusher

AvroPHP — Trie-based Bangla transliteration engine in PHP. https://github.com/imerfanahmed/avro-php

Applied AI — LLM architecture research, agentic systems, tool calling, RAG, prompt engineering and evaluation, LoRA / QLoRA fine-tuning, MCP, solution architecture.

Languages — PHP (Laravel), Go, Python, SQL, JavaScript.

Frontend — TALL stack, Tailwind, Alpine.js, Livewire, Vue, Blade, Vite.

Cloud and infrastructure — AWS (S3, EC2, Lambda, Aurora), Azure, Cloudflare, Nginx, load balancing, DNS, Linux.

DevOps — Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Git.

Data — MySQL, PostgreSQL, vector databases, knowledge graphs.

MSc Cloud & Network Computing Engineering — University of Staffordshire, Feb 2026 to present

BSc Computer Science & Engineering — University of Dhaka, 2020 to 2025 CGPA 3.63 / 4.00

GitHub — https://github.com/imerfanahmed LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/imerfan LeetCode — https://leetcode.com/u/imerfanahmed Email — erfan.siam98@gmail.com

The portfolio and blog are an Astro project in site/, deployed to GitHub Pages by the workflow in .github/workflows/deploy.yml.

All site content lives in site/src/data/cv.ts — components are presentation only. Blog posts are markdown files in site/src/content/blog/; add one, push, and it publishes automatically. See site/README.md for the content schemas and deployment notes.

The agent-facing Markdown profile is generated from cv.ts by site/src/lib/markdown.ts and served at /markdown.md. llms.txt lives in site/public/.

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