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FOUNDING ENGINEER · FORWARD DEPLOYED

Sayed RaheelHussain

A Founding Engineer based in New York.

I deploy AI agents into the messiest parts of real businesses — voice, logistics, healthcare — and own them end-to-end from prototype to $1M ARR. Currently building Kayaan Freight, an autonomous freight brokerage where agents own end-to-end task outcomes.

Recognition

Numbers, not vibes.

Profiled by Business Insider. Backed by NVIDIA, Google, and Microsoft. $1M ARR in 8 months.

Business Insider

Featured for applied innovation in AI-driven logistics at Kayaan AI.

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NVIDIA Inception

Selected for NVIDIA's program for AI startups building at scale.

Google for Startups

$100K awarded to accelerate applied AI systems in production.

Microsoft for Startups

$150K awarded for ML deployment, growth, and Azure infrastructure.

$1M ARR · 8 months

Built and shipped 0→1 AI systems that hit a $1M ARR run rate in under 8 months.

By the numbers

Three years. Three numbers.

$1MARR

Run rate hit in 8 months

7Eng

Engineers I lead at Kayaan

3+Yrs

ML systems in production

Currently building

Kayaan Freight.

An autonomous freight brokerage. AI agents handle dispatch, carrier negotiation, load matching, and exception management end-to-end — and learn from every interaction.

Outcome-as-a-service in supply chain logistics: a multi-trillion-dollar industry still running on phones, fax machines, and zero data standards. We're replacing the cold-call playbook with agents that close.

/ How it ships
  • 01Same team. Same playbook that took Kayaan AI to $1M ARR in 8 months.
  • 02Agents own dispatch, carrier matching, and exception handling end-to-end.
  • 03Every interaction becomes training signal — the system gets sharper every load.
  • 04Forward-deployed with shippers and brokers. Onsite. Instrumented. Iterated weekly.
What I lead

A team of seven.

Today I run engineering for Kayaan's product surface. We deploy onsite with shippers and brokers, instrument every conversation, and ship weekly into production used by real operators.

2
Forward Deployed Engineers
Customer-embedded · Shipping in prod
1
AI Architect Lead
Agent design · Eval pipelines
4
Platform Engineers
Infra · APIs · Reliability

Forward Deployedisn’t a job title. It’s a posture. You sit with the customer, you absorb the workflow, you ship the agent, you watch it break, you fix it before standup.

Experience

Where I’ve deployed.

  1. Founding Engineer · Forward Deployed

    Kayaan AI / Kayaan Freight
    Jan 2025 – Present
    New York, NY

    Founding engineer leading the production AI surface. Took Kayaan AI from 0 → $1M ARR in 8 months. Now leading the build of Kayaan Freight, an autonomous freight brokerage on top of the same agent platform.

    • Designed and shipped a 0→1 production voice-driven logistics system (ASR → LLM → TTS), deployed end-to-end in real-world operations.
    • Built a latency-critical real-time voice pipeline, optimising TTFB / TTFT, throughput (TPS) and cost for conversational workloads.
    • Defined offline and online evaluation pipelines for LLM systems — tracking WER, latency distributions, task success, and post-deployment regressions.
    • Implemented golden-prompt regression testing to catch quality regressions before model releases.
    • Shipped production safety: PII redaction, schema-validated tool calls, rule-based fallbacks, and human-in-the-loop escalation.
    • Achieved 30–40% workflow automation; scaled operator capacity from ~5 to ~50 concurrent workflows (target 80%).
    • Shipped per-user and per-agent long-term memory — procedural + semantic, vector-backed (LLM-OS style) — enabling persistent user personality, context-aware reasoning, and iterative agent improvement via feedback-driven re-prompting. Built in ASP.NET (C#) with a React frontend.
    • Lead a team of 7 (2 FDEs, 1 AI Architect, 4 platform engineers) across the Kayaan platform and the Kayaan Freight build.
    Voice AILLMAgentsLogisticsASP.NET / C#ReactAzure
  2. Applied Machine Learning Engineer

    Sync (Healthcare AI)
    Sep 2024 – Jan 2025
    Remote

    Embedded with clinical teams to ship a multi-agent assistant for clinical information retrieval under strict safety constraints.

    • Built and deployed a multi-agent AI assistant for clinical information retrieval used by care teams.
    • Evaluated and adapted domain-specific language models under strict safety, accuracy, and usability constraints.
    Multi-agentHealthcareLLM EvalSafety
  3. Machine Learning Engineer

    Palazzo.ai
    Jan 2024 – Jul 2024
    Philadelphia, PA

    Fine-tuned diffusion models for interior design generation and productionised the segmentation + generation stack.

    • Fine-tuned and deployed ControlNet-based diffusion models for personalised interior design image generation.
    • Built and productionised image segmentation + generation pipelines — improving end-to-end throughput by 30% and enabling scalable inference.
    DiffusionControlNetComputer VisionProductionisation
  4. Research Assistant — Computer Vision & Multimodal AI

    Yeshiva University
    Jun 2023 – May 2024
    New York, NY

    Pre-trained a domain-specific 1B-parameter transformer for veterinary medicine and shipped a few-shot CV system for livestock health.

    • Built VetMedGPT: curated a 500GB+ corpus and trained a 1B-parameter Transformer from scratch using distributed training on 6× NVIDIA A100 GPUs.
    • Developed a few-shot computer vision system for livestock health assessment — custom CNNs and fine-tuned YOLOv8 segmentation/detection — achieving 54%+ AP after labeling 47k frames.
    Pre-trainingDistributed TrainingYOLOv8Few-shotA100
Stack & Education

What I reach for.

Languages

  • Python
  • TypeScript / JavaScript
  • SQL
  • C#

AI / ML Systems

  • Agent orchestration
  • Tool use
  • Offline + online eval
  • Guardrails
  • Human-in-the-loop

Applied ML

  • LLMs
  • Speech-to-text
  • Computer vision
  • OCR
  • Diffusion / ControlNet

Production

  • FastAPI
  • ASP.NET
  • Docker
  • Azure
  • Monitoring & alerting
  • Reliability-focused rollouts
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Reach out

Let’s build something real.

sayedraheel1995@gmail.com
Available for FDE roles