AI & Automation Officer · CQUniversity

Building AI systems
that actually make it to production.

I'm Md Abu Rayhan — an AI engineer in Sydney working across NLP, voice and text AI, LLM fine-tuning and Azure automation. I've shipped a multilingual hospital triage assistant for UNSW research and translation AI serving the English Premier League. Now I help teams do the same.

3+
AI systems shipped to real users
21+
Languages served by one API
2
Universities & enterprise delivery
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Md Abu Rayhan

Microsoft Certified Azure AI Engineer · Sydney, AU

Azure AILLM fine-tuningWhisper ASRMultilingual NLPFastAPIPythonGolangNext.jsRAG & agentsAutomation pipelinesAzure AILLM fine-tuningWhisper ASRMultilingual NLPFastAPIPythonGolangNext.jsRAG & agentsAutomation pipelines

Expertise

Deep, hands-on capability across the modern AI stack.

AI Automation Engineering

Production automation pipelines that remove manual work from enterprise operations — from process mapping to deployed, monitored systems.

NLP & Conversational AI

Multilingual understanding, intent modelling, Whisper-based speech recognition and text-to-speech for real voice and text assistants.

Azure AI Architecture

Microsoft Certified Azure AI Engineer. Azure ML, AI Language, OpenAI integrations, and governance for AI workloads at institutional scale.

LLM Systems, RAG & Agents

Domain-specific fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation and multi-agent workflows built to be evaluated, not just demoed.

Experience

Where I've built it.

  1. Mar 2026 — Present · Sydney

    AI & Automation Officer · CQUniversity

    Advancing university-wide automation strategy and AI solutions across operations, with a focus on Azure-based delivery.

  2. Jul 2025 — Mar 2026 · Sydney

    AI Engineer — TRIBOT · UNSW (NHMRC-funded research)

    Led full-stack MVP development of an AI-powered multilingual triage assistant for emergency departments: Python, NLP (English/Arabic), Whisper ASR, TTS, Azure ML LLM fine-tuning, FastAPI and Next.js.

  3. Dec 2023 — Feb 2024 · Melbourne

    AI Engineer · ECAL

    Built a Golang + Azure AI translation API delivering English Premier League fixtures in 21+ languages, and spearheaded Smart Events — an AI event maker using Azure and OpenAI.

Education & credentials

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer

    Associate certification

  • Grad. Certificate, Data Science

    UNSW Sydney

  • BSc Computer Science

    Swinburne University of Technology

Consulting

Work with me directly.

Every session ends with clear, actionable next steps — no vague advice.

Most booked

AI Automation Deep Dive

$99

60 minutes

A full working session on your automation or AI use case: architecture, tooling, risks and a concrete build path you can start on Monday.

  • System architecture review
  • Tooling & model selection
  • Written next-step plan
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Focused Consulting Call

$49

30 minutes

A direct call to unblock one specific AI, NLP or Azure problem you're stuck on right now.

  • One problem, solved
  • Live debugging welcome
  • Follow-up resources
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Career Counselling

$49

30 minutes

Guidance for breaking into AI engineering — study paths, certifications, portfolio and interview preparation.

  • Portfolio review
  • Certification roadmap
  • Interview prep
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Booking

Book a 1:1 meeting

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