STATUS :: ACTIVE // AI SYSTEMS RESEARCH & ENGINEERING
PORTFOLIO :: https://asimansari.com
FOCUS :: SUB-1B SLM DISTILLATION · CYCLIC STATEGRAPHS · HIGH-THROUGHPUT BACKENDS
I build small models, deterministic agentic workflows, and resilient backends that run close to the metal.
- Cyclic State Machines Over Linear Chains: Linear pipelines fail under real-world tool uncertainty. I architect autonomous systems using LangGraph, discrete state machines, explicit state reducers, and bounded self-correction loops.
- Edge Model Distillation: Distilling multi-turn synthetic action traces into Sub-1B models (
SmolLM2-360M,Qwen2.5-0.5B) executing locally on commodity CPU hardware with zero framework bloat. - Deterministic Knowledge Retrieval: Grounded hybrid RAG combining ChromaDB dense vectors with Okapi BM25 and AST knowledge graph walks, enforced with sandboxed execution.
- Resilient Backend Foundations: High-throughput transactional architectures engineered with Java 21 / Spring Boot 3 Virtual Threads and .NET 9 Clean Architecture.
- Agentic AI & SLMs: LangChain, LangGraph (Cyclic Graphs, Checkpointing, State Reducers), Google GenAI SDK, SLM Distillation, RAG (MMR & Dense/Sparse Hybrid), Unsloth.
- Languages: Python (FastAPI, AsyncIO, PyTorch), Java (Java 21, Spring Boot 3), C / C++, C# (.NET 9).
- Databases & Vector Stores: PostgreSQL, SQLite (FTS5 BM25), MongoDB, ChromaDB.
- Runtime & Infrastructure: Linux / POSIX, Podman / Docker, GGUF CPU inference, Git.
- Web Hub: asimansari.com
- LinkedIn: @asimibnakhlaque
- Research Monographs: asimansari.com/blogs
- Email: asimibnakhlaque@gmail.com

