AI Engineer & Entrepreneur building production LLM systems — Co-Founder of Josh AI, currently at Introva.
I'm Khursheed Ahmed — an AI engineer and entrepreneur based in Lahore, Pakistan, currently building production generative AI systems at Introva and co-leading Josh AI, an AI-powered recruitment platform serving enterprises in South Asia.
My path through software engineering has been deliberately broad and increasingly deep. Over the last three years I've worked across the stack — from MERN-stack product engineering at Eventus Sol, to multi-agent AI infrastructure at Introva, to founding and technical leadership at Josh AI. The throughline has been building things that real users depend on, with the production-engineering discipline that AI work demands: latency budgets, evaluation pipelines, observability, and graceful failure modes.
What I'm most interested in is the intersection of two ideas: that generative AI is finally good enough to be the interface to complex systems, and that most companies haven't yet figured out how to deploy it safely, reliably, and economically. That's where I work — building RAG pipelines, multi-agent orchestrations, voice agents, and the integration layers that connect them to the messy realities of production systems.
Outside of paid work, I co-founded Josh AI with my partner in India. We've built it from zero into a platform that's currently in POC with Uber and Zomato in India and a pilot with Innoworq, with a Pakistan-market rebrand operating as Smart Hire AI. It's the most complete expression of what I believe modern AI products should be: opinionated, deeply integrated, voice-first where it matters, and engineered to handle the long tail of real-world inputs.
I've represented Pakistan at the Microsoft Imagine Cup as a global semifinalist (the only Asian team to qualify from a field of 20,000+), ranked #1 in Pakistan and #31 globally in the Meta Hacker Cup, and finalled at the Google Gemma AI Hackathon in London. Competition has been a useful forcing function — it teaches you to ship under pressure and to build with conviction when there's no time to second-guess.
I'm currently exploring senior AI engineering and founding-engineer roles with teams shipping production LLM systems. If that's you, I'd love to talk.
Microsoft Imagine Cup 2025
Global Semifinalist
Only Asian team from 20,000+ submissions
Meta Hacker Cup 2025
#1 in Pakistan
#31 globally — 14,000+ contestants
Microsoft for Startups
$25K Azure Credits
Awarded for Smart Grade AI
Google Gemma Hackathon
London 2024 Finalist
Global finalist