Mohammad Kaif
summary
Full-stack engineer with production experience across healthcare and travel tech. Currently Founding Engineer at Tint, building a FastAPI + Next.js platform on AWS with a Gemini-powered itinerary generation pipeline and a cross-platform Expo / React Native app. IIIT Delhi CSE 2026 grad with a side interest in quantum computing (IBM Qiskit Global Summer School 2024) who likes shipping things that work.
experience
Tint· Founding Engineer · Travel Tech Startup
Apr 2026 – Present- ▸System Design & Backend: Architected a live AI travel platform on a single async FastAPI backend serving web, mobile, and admin, with Redis rate limiting and session caching. Built a three-stage itinerary pipeline behind an async-polling API, and migrated it from OpenAI to Gemini to cut latency and cost.
- ▸Auth & Partner CRM: Built a three-principal JWT auth system (consumer/admin/partner) with phone OTP, TOTP 2FA, and encrypted KYC, plus a supply-side CRM and self-service portal for hosts, guides, and agencies.
- ▸Admin Platform & Analytics: Shipped a full internal admin platform with three-tier RBAC, trip/booking management, and live time-series analytics as sparklines; zero-downtime deploys via CI/CD.
- ▸Consumer Mobile App (in progress): Building the flagship Expo / React Native app, a discovery feed with bookable listings and in-app Razorpay checkout, extending the platform into a two-sided marketplace.
2070 Health· Software Engineer (Contract) · Healthcare Platform
Jan 2026 – Apr 2026- ▸Frontend engineer on EverHope (10k+ users). Built patient-facing pages across oncology, nutrition, and diagnostics from Figma with responsive layouts and content updates.
- ▸Built end-to-end appointment booking (OTP, live EHR, Razorpay, Salesforce CRM sync); led SSR migration and SEO overhaul across 50+ pages; caught a Docker misconfiguration routing traffic to staging.
Kuzushi Labs· Freelance Software Engineer · AI Startup
Nov 2025 – Mar 2026- ▸Built Anowmly from scratch: custom hero animation (rectangle-to-cube), WebPlayer, film-strip carousel, and contact form. Migrated video assets to Cloudinary. Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Framer Motion, Tailwind CSS.
- ▸Shipped Kuzushi Labs' site with GSAP, Three.js 3D, Framer Motion, and Lenis on Next.js 16 / React 19. Rebuilt the Healthtech-Redefined design system with shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS.
Adiamara· Freelance Frontend Engineer · E-commerce
Apr 2026- ▸Delivered UI fixes and improvements for a luxury lab-grown diamond e-commerce brand based in Dubai. Replaced a broken Shopify currency converter with a free exchange-rate API with flag/currency dropdowns. Built a bulk pricing CSV tool for Matrixify to mass-update jewellery variant prices.
projects
git-newspaperSelf
Apr 2026- ▸Open-source npm CLI that trended on r/coolgithubprojects and r/node within 24 hours of launch, picking up 100+ stars and 500+ downloads with zero marketing.
- ▸Detects 9 commit-pattern archetypes and renders fully typeset broadsheets with inlined fonts, SVG activity charts, and archetype-specific editorial voice. No LLM dependency, runs fully offline.
CipherLensAcademic · IIIT-Delhi
2025 – 2026- ▸B.Tech project at IIIT Delhi. Built a full-stack ML web app that identifies 22 classical cipher types from raw ciphertext with no keys or plaintext required.
- ▸Trained three complementary models on 550k samples - a dual-input Hybrid CNN (79.24% val accuracy), a character-level DL CNN, and a two-stage XGBoost classifier using 15 statistical features. Stack: FastAPI, PyTorch, XGBoost, Next.js 16, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Docker Compose.
newsforgeSelf
May 2026- ▸LangGraph agent that runs every morning via GitHub Actions, pulls ~40 AI/tech articles through Tavily, filters and categorizes them with GPT-4o-mini, and sends a clean digest to email or WhatsApp. Costs under $0.20/month.
- ▸Pipeline runs as discrete nodes: Search, Filter, Categorize, Summarize, Format, and Deliver, with Jinja2-templated HTML emails. Stack: Python 3.12, LangGraph, LangChain, GPT-4o-mini, Tavily, SendGrid, Twilio, GitHub Actions.
skills
LanguagesC++, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, SQL
FrameworksReact.js, Next.js, React Native, Expo, FastAPI, Node.js, SQLAlchemy, TailwindCSS, Framer Motion, GSAP, Three.js
AI / MLGemini API, OpenAI API, LangGraph, LangChain, PyTorch, XGBoost
AWS & DevOpsS3, App Runner, RDS, ElastiCache, Amplify, Railway, Docker, Nginx, GitHub Actions, GCP, PM2, Git/GitHub
DatabasesPostgreSQL (Neon), MongoDB, Redis (Upstash), Firebase
IntegrationsJWT/Auth, Razorpay, Twilio, Salesforce, Cloudinary, SendGrid, Tavily
open source
Open Source Contributor | IIITD-PYQs
IIITD-PYQsContributed past year course materials for Design Research to a widely-used IIITD repository, enhancing resources for thousands of students. Submitted and merged PR #44, my first open-source contribution.
education
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-Delhi)
achievements & certifications
Google Advanced Data Analytics Certificate
Mastered advanced data analysis and ML techniques including logistic regression, random forest, and decision trees through hands-on projects with real-world datasets.
IBM Qiskit Global Summer School
Selected from thousands of global applicants for IBM's quantum computing program. Completed 4 advanced quantum computing tasks using IBM's cloud quantum computers.
IBM Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals
Demonstrated proficiency in core AI concepts, machine learning principles, and practical applications with IBM Watson AI Studio.