Our team · Production AI & backend systems
Ijlal Ishaq
Builds production AI: agents that act on real systems, retrieval and RAG, voice, and natural-language interfaces over company data.
Senior AI engineer leading AI products at Voir Labs: LLM integrations, agents, RAG and voice. Five years building production systems, including the backend and data systems for real-time trading.
What Ijlal builds
AI agents with guardrails
Agents that act on real systems, with the limits enforced in code rather than the prompt: task scope, a named owner, an off switch and a handoff to a person.
RAG and natural-language interfaces
Plain-English questions over a company's own data, answered from real pipelines: indexing, embeddings, vector search and retrieval, not guesses.
Voice and conversational AI
Live AI conversations with voice and avatars, and the consent and compliance checks that come before an agent ever dials.
LLM integrations built to change
Model calls behind one config and one interface, so switching model or provider over price or quality is a setting, not a rewrite.
Selected projects
AI Shark Tank
A live pitching experience where AI investor personas hear and question startup pitches in real time, with voice and avatars.
Read the case studyHashHunter
AI trading system run from Telegram: an AI decision layer reads market and on-chain signals, then executes trades automatically across Solana and more than ten EVM chains.
Spock Analytics
Growth analytics with natural-language search on top. Its data layer ingests on-chain and off-chain data through Apache Airflow, dbt and BigQuery.
Visit the websiteToDaMoon AI
An AI-generated TV show: AI storytelling, with viewers predicting what happens next.
Experience
- Nov 2024 to now
Senior AI engineer
Voir Labs
Leads AI products end to end, from the agent design to the backend that runs it.
- Builds AI agents and automated workflows for data analysis and real-world actions, with guardrails in code.
- Builds the backend services behind AI pipelines, analytics and integrations.
- Writes Voir Labs Insights: each article takes a piece of AI news, builds the fix and runs it on sample data.
- Nov 2021 to Jan 2025
AI & full-stack engineer
Xord
AI interfaces over large, fast-moving datasets.
- Built natural-language interfaces that let users ask questions of blockchain data in plain English.
- Worked on AI systems that analyse activity data and surface insights automatically.
- Built backend services and APIs for analytics, trading tools and data-intelligence platforms.
- Nov 2021 to May 2024
Blockchain & full-stack engineer
Xord Solutions
Financial platforms, smart contracts and the data pipelines behind them.
- Built smart contracts, backend APIs and full-stack interfaces for DeFi platforms.
- Built data-indexing and analytics pipelines and monitoring tools.
Stack
- AI
- LLM integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Gemini)
- AI agents
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- RAG
- Embeddings and vector search
- Context engineering
- Voice and video APIs (ElevenLabs, Hedra)
- Backend
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- NestJS
- REST
- GraphQL
- Data
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- BigQuery
- Apache Airflow
- dbt
- Indexing pipelines
- Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- Web3
- Solidity
- Rust
- Solana
- EVM
Education
BS Computer Science
University of Karachi (UBIT)
Recent builds and writing
Each one takes a piece of AI news, builds the fix and runs it on sample data.
· AI agents
New York proposes fines for support bots with no way out. Here is the handoff.
New York City proposes fines for support bots that trap customers. We built a handoff where code, not the model, decides when the bot stops.
· AI agents
Under US law, an AI voice agent's calls need consent. Build the consent gate first.
The FCC has confirmed that AI-generated voices fall under the TCPA. Here is the pre-dial gate we would put in front of any outbound voice agent.
· AI agents
Anthropic's own agent went past its task. Here is the guard.
In a safeguards-off test, Anthropic's agent went past its task in 9 of 43 runs. We built a guard that checks every action against the task's scope.
· AI agents
SK Telecom gives its AI agents employee IDs. Yours need an owner and an off switch.
SK Telecom now gives each in-house AI agent an employee ID, a supervisor and an off switch. Here is the small version any team can build.
· Security
The morning after PHP2Shell, your sheet says patched. Ask the server.
PHP2Shell lets one request run code on a PHP server. We built a triage that asks each server for its real version instead of trusting the spreadsheet.
· AI products
Replit moved its default AI model over price. Make sure yours is a config change.
Replit reportedly moved most of its AI spend to OpenAI for a discount. If your product runs on one model, here is how to make a switch cheap.
· AI agents
Schwab is blocking AI agents that log in as you. Here is one it won't.
Schwab blocks outside AI agents that log in as its clients. We built a money assistant that never holds a password, and ran it on 20 sample requests.
Work with Ijlal
Building something with AI?
Ijlal builds with Voir Labs, an AI-first design and development studio. Tell us what you are working on and we will tell you how we would build it.