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Abrar FahimData Scientist · London, UK
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Open to Work — No Sponsorship Required

Hello, I'm Abrar - I turn LLMs & NLP into production value.

3+ years across FinTech & Healthcare. UK Global Talent Visa (UKRI endorsed). Focused on LLM fine‑tuning, advanced RAG, topic modeling, and AWS deployments.

17K+ LinkedIn followers · 200+ SaaS users · 9K+ TikTok followers · Published in World Scientific

LLM fine‑tuningRAG & evaluationAWS (S3 · EC2 · Lambda)
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London, UKNo sponsorship needed
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Shipped products
200+
Active SaaS users
9K+
TikTok followers
UKRI
Global Talent Visa
AI & NLP
LLMs / GPT
RAG
LangChain
PyTorch
HuggingFace
Fine-tuning (LoRA)
Topic Modelling
OpenAI SDK
Data & Core
Python
SQL
Pandas
scikit‑learn
Cloud & Tools
AWS
SageMaker
Lambda
Bedrock
Docker
Git
CI/CD
Skill Proficiency

Data Science Expertise

My skillset is balanced between Advanced NLP/LLMs and robust Data Engineering. I focus on building end-to-end systems, from data ingestion (SQL/Pandas) to model deployment (AWS/Docker).

95%
NLP & LLMs
AWS
Cloud Native

Experience & Education

Jan 2023 - Present

Data Scientist @ HecoAnalytics

  • Built advanced RAG pipelines for health economists, reducing report generation time by 40%
  • Evaluated multiple LLMs for healthcare knowledge tasks, achieving BERTScore > 0.83 and ROUGE > 0.40
  • Developed AI meeting summariser converting audio to persona-specific summaries, adopted across client-facing workflows
  • Automated generation of client company profiles and repetitive data ingestion tasks using LLMs and Python on AWS
  • Applied topic modelling (BERTopic, LDA) and rule-based fact extraction to categorise research papers, streamlining literature review workflows
Side Activities
Feb 2026 — Present

Business Development Advisor · Imran & CO Solicitors

Advising on digital transformation of a UK law firm — technology adoption, process automation, and AI integration into legal workflows.

Jan 2026 — Present

Quantum Technology Feasibility Study · UK Style Roads

Researching feasibility of quantum computing and sensing applications for UK road infrastructure, traffic optimisation, and smart transport systems.

Dec 2021 - Jan 2023

Data Scientist @ Brunel University London & Industry Partner

  • Led development of a stock market behaviour analytics tool using NLP on 2M+ financial news articles
  • Engineered emotion analysis pipeline achieving ~43% correlation between news sentiment and stock price movement
  • Published peer-reviewed paper in World Scientific journal on findings
  • Took project from ideation to production in cross-functional team
May 2021 — Sept 2021

AI Intern @ CityMaas

  • Trained 6 CNN-RNN model variants for image captioning to enhance web accessibility for visually impaired users
  • Achieved best BLEU score of 0.54 with proposed improvements for future iterations
2020 - 2021

MSc Data Science & Analytics @ Brunel University London

ML, Quantitative Analysis, Visualization, HPC, Ethics & Governance, Digital Strategy.

2015 - 2019

BSc Computer Science & Engineering @ North South University

87% average · Capstone: ANPR (Top‑20 showcase).

Projects

Tuscan AIProduction RAG · Live Demo

Tuscan AI

RAG Chatbot Engine — lead capture, meeting scheduling, email collection from website visitors.

AIRAGSaaS

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MyUkTest9K+ TikTok · £100+/mo Revenue

MyUkTest.co.uk

Automated TikTok pipeline (AWS Polly + HTML rendering). 200+ Etsy PDF sales. Zero manual recording.

AutomationEdTechAWS Polly

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QuickNoteShare100+ Daily Users

QuickNoteShare.com

QR-based cross-device text sharing. No signup. No install. 100+ daily active users.

UtilityWeb

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Reddit RadarChrome Extension · NLP

Reddit Radar

NLP-powered Chrome extension — extracts pain points from Reddit to generate business ideas.

AINLPExtension

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Emotion AI2M+ Articles · 43% Correlation

Emotion AI for Trading

NLP on 2M+ articles to predict stock movements. Published in World Scientific. ~43% correlation achieved.

ResearchNLPFinTech

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QuickReachChrome Extension

QuickReach for LinkedIn

One-click LinkedIn messaging from saved draft templates.

ExtensionProductivity

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Testimonials

"Hi Abrar, Very happy to recommend you after the work you did for Advanced Logic Analytics Limited in conjunction with Brunel University. The project you did for us was very well done and your skills as a Data Scientist were very good, you grew into the project over the time you worked with us and Brunel. When you get to the next stage with a potential employer, I would be happy to speak to them or provide a reference. Best Nick"
Nick Ellis
Managing Director at Advanced Logic Analytics Ltd
"I have worked with Abrar and he is highly skilled professional with expertise Data science. He has handle complex projects using deep learning and has demonstrated experts knowledge in this area. We have collaborated in healthcare AI related project. His key competence in Data Science, coding capabilities, and good communication skills are enormous. I would recommend Abrar for a top positions in AI and Data science related jobs."
Anthony Bawa, PhD
Reader of Wireless-Sensors Networks, AI Systems, Signal Processing & IoT
"Abrar is a skilled programmer and data scientist who works well as part of a team. Abrar acquires knowledge effectively and always demonstrates excellent work across a number of platforms (including cloud)."
David Bell
Reader in Computer Science at Brunel University of London
"Abrar Is a high skilled programmer and an incisive data scientist who is capable of developing, deploying and maintaining computer models for a wide range of applications. He is humble, talented and dedicated. He communicates at a high level and is able convey complex ideas simply. I am happy to recommend him and have no doubt that he will be very successful in all his endeavours going forward."
Zaahir Dawood
Senior Data Scientist @ UserTesting
"I have taught Abrar, supervised him on his MSc dissertation and worked with him on a research project focusing on emotions discovery and analysis and their effect on trading decisions (Emotions AI). I have worked with many students who have substantial knowledge and eager to learn and each year I notice only a few outstanding students with a unique perspective to further embrace their knowledge. One such individual was Abrar... Working with Abrar, I noticed how he likes challenges and always aims to solve them using creative data science approaches."
Alaa Marshan
Senior Lecturer in Computer and Data Sciences at the University of Surrey

Certifications & Credentials

HackerRank SQL Certificate

SQL (Intermediate) Certificate

HackerRank
Verified Skill Certification
Vector Database Certificate

Vector Database Certificate

Udemy
ID: UC-94eebb18-687a-432d-9204-f02eb994fecc
Generative AI Certificate

Generative AI Certificate

Coursera
ID: J3TVLJZ56F4U
Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) Certificate

Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC)

Bloomberg for Education
Financial Markets Certification

Publications

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Population Estimation of Rohingya Refugees using Deep Learning

Journal: International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management
Publisher: World Scientific
DOI: 10.1142/S2196888819500246

Research on utilizing AI and semantic techniques to develop emotion-based algorithms for financial trading using market news analysis.

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