Khubaib Shabbir
A repeat founder and CTO who takes products end-to-end — planning, architecting, writing the hardest code, testing, supporting, and leading the teams that ship them. I build across web, mobile, desktop, cross-platform, embedded, and edge. My work spans generative AI & autonomous agent teams, real-time messaging & streaming, VoIP, IoT, drones, hardware, robotics, cyber-physical systems, core networking, blockchain, industrial, and enterprise systems across social, technology, telecom, cement, healthcare, entertainment, aquaculture, AgTech, hyperlocal services, venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, logistics, climate-tech, compliance, real-estate, and beyond. I'm the one counted on to put out fires — I take the problems no one else will, with analytical depth and a level-headed, helpful presence. I've trained and led people from associates to experts in world-class teams. A consistent early mover who built things before or at par with the world. A jack of all trades and a master of some.
Signals
Flagship work
The flagship, one-of-a-kind things I've built — newest first. Filter by kind:
AI Software House now
An AI software house built on loop engineering — self-improving agentic loops that plan → build → test → review → improve and ship real products, humans in the loop. To open-source.
HMWARE
A hive-mind of WhatsApp AI agents for real-estate brokers — multi-agent coordination with shared memory, routing listings, leads, and conversations at scale.
VehicleScanner
An offline-first vehicle-recovery assistant for a bank's defaulted vehicle leases — OCR, camera & live scanning; encrypted signed data packages; admin + mobile roles with offline search & sync.
Anonymous Messaging
An anonymous, trace-free text & email system — letting anyone, anywhere communicate with no identity attached and no traces left behind.
ZerHaul
AI that runs the phone calls and paperwork of U.S. car-hauling logistics, supervised by humans — voice + browser agents behind approval gates. Co-founded; led as CTO & interim CEO to a successful acquisition.
MIPS CQM AI
A browser-automation agent that logs into physicians' practice-management systems (PMS) to find numerator-matching clinical data for MIPS Clinical Quality Measures; the denominator side handled by automation.
Truck Dispatch & Brokerage AI
Voice & browser AI agents, orchestrated, that run truck dispatching and load brokerage — matching loads to carriers across the workflow.
Atlas Support Bot
A support AI that absorbed the routine work of a ~200-person help desk down to 10 senior specialists — classify → RAG over the KB → draft → gate → escalate.
Data Agent
The organisation's Data Agent — natural-language questions to queries & analysis over enterprise data; built for, and used by, the COO's team.
VP Finance AI
An autonomous agent for a mergers-and-acquisitions (Acquisitions & Imports) pipeline — intake, workflow, and decision support.
VentureCoPilot
Generative-AI for venture-capital due diligence — a scrape → OCR → vectorize → RAG pipeline over document-heavy analysis, plus the first chatbot/agents.
Quarannect → Civilment
Quarannect connected people in quarantine to what they needed; it evolved into Civilment — mobilising ordinary citizens to do the work the state couldn't.
BynUp — Aquaculture Platform
A unified aquaculture platform — knowledge-sharing, e-commerce & resource planning — with IoT water-quality sensors, drones, and ML models on an Apache Pulsar backbone; computerized hatcheries that raised survival rates of non-local Pangasius larvae. Co-founded as CTO; led remote support, technical-writing & customization teams.
Servii
A hyperlocal services platform — "Uber for all work types" — matching people to local work of every kind.
Signature moments
Character over CV lines — where judgment, nerve, or ingenuity mattered. Most recent first.
Built it, led it, sold it · 2026
Co-founded ZerHaul — human-in-the-loop AI for U.S. car-hauling logistics — and ran it as CTO and interim CEO of the parent, through to a successful acquisition.
Handed the hardest systems · 2019
At Trilogy I was named “The Extreme L2” — consistently given the most technically complex acquired systems and the toughest legacy knowledge to import, and made lead of the Imports team. 97% quality, 100% target.
Shipped it into an incubator · 2016
Built PatientConcern — real-time doctor scheduling & patient records over XMPP — for a medical-services start-up; the product reached Pakistan's Plan9 tech incubator.
Beat the giants on merit · 2013
Won a major project for MDateInternational against larger, established firms (Qurop et al.) purely on the quality of my design — and was offered a 10% stake to deliver it end-to-end.
Turned it around, then sold it · 2012
I took a partnership in a declining training institute and moved from Lahore to Peshawar to revive it — restructured its business fronts and won hospital-network projects, enabling a sale of the revitalised business within six months.
Saved overnight — doubted first · 2011
At ePay UK I caught that a partner (Nomi Mobile) had filed for bankruptcy and pushed to block their transactions. I was ridiculed internally and by ePay's own team that night; by the next day, internal and external top management were thanking me — and my shift was exempted from monitoring for the save.
The one they sent the hard ones to · 2010
At ePay UK the CEO nicknamed me “The Champ,” personally forwarding me every challenge no one else would touch — the ones the floor had given up on.
The answer nobody else found · 2009
During PTCL's 7→8-digit number switch, the record system broke. By changing a single URL parameter I could still pull records — while 1500+ colleagues on the national helplines (1236/1217/1218) were turning customers away. Every rep used my workaround until the dev team patched it.
Pioneering & firsts
Things I built earlier than or at par with the world.
An AI software house on loop engineering — self-improving plan→build→test→review→improve.
Human-in-the-loop autonomous logistics (voice + browser agents).
Role-replacing AI in production — Atlas (200→10) and a Data Agent for a COO.
GenAI + RAG for VC due diligence — early enterprise GenAI.
Citizen-mobilising civic tech during Covid (Quarannect → Civilment).
Aquaculture IoT + drones + computerized hatcheries in Pakistan.
Apache Pulsar as an IoT backbone — Pulsar was brand-new (Apache TLP 2018).
SIP + XMPP on carrier-grade VoIP/UC (Broadsoft) — enterprise real-time UC ahead of the curve.
Mobile SoCs with CPU + GPU + AI-unit + FPGA — before mainstream mobile NPUs (2017).
Off-grid, serverless, numberless P2P — U.S. provisional patent, alongside the earliest mesh-messaging wave.
Android running in cars — before Android Auto (2014).
In-browser real-time voice/video on XMPP + WebRTC, before it went mainstream.
The through-line
One skill runs through every era of my career — moving information reliably, in real time. Long before agents were the headline it was messages, then events, now tool-calls; the queueing discipline is identical.
Live text / voice / video chat on XMPP, WebRTC & AMQP — clustered Openfire + RhinoJS, Strophe.js over BOSH/Comet.
SIP + XMPP on carrier-grade Broadsoft VoIP/UC; then Servii, a real-time work engine on digital streaming platforms.
Reverse-documented Kafka-based queuing & streaming internals (Jive) for acquired SaaS.
Apache Pulsar event-streaming backbone with MQTT at the sensor edge — aquaculture telemetry & ML.
LangGraph state machines for support triage — the same routing / queueing, now over agents.
HITL orchestration — classify → act → escalate — applied to autonomous logistics.
The streaming / queueing mindset applied to the ultimate asynchronous system — the software-development lifecycle itself: loop engineering, agentic loops that plan → build → test → review → improve.
Recent research
Research contributions and writing — most recent first. More to come.
Drones & AI in Agriculture. Read the notes →
Hive-Mind WhatsApp AI. Read the notes →
Cameras & AI. Read the notes →
Spiky educational POVs — research contribution to LearnWith.ai. Read the notes →
Career timeline
Time runs down the centre; main roles branch left, concurrent ventures branch right — see The through-line above for the real-time thread that connects them.
Independent — AI Systems Architect
Primary focus: an AI software house built on loop engineering — self-improving agentic loops that plan → build → test → review → improve and ship products under human supervision, which I plan to open-source. Currently also a fractional / interim CTO for SolHod, DesfechoVibrante, NexLabAI & SkratchDigital, alongside a set of completed independent AI products (right).
HMWARE · WhatsApp AI hive-mind
Camera AI · jewellery chain
VehicleScanner · bank leasing
WhatsApp AI Agent · Vohra & Saigol
Anonymous Messaging
ZerHaul, LLC Exit
Human-supervised AI for U.S. car-hauling logistics — voice & browser agents with people on the approvals. ZerHaul was owned by Zeryph; led it to acquisition.
MIPS CQM Extraction · healthcare AI
Browser agent logging into physicians' PMS to find numerator data for MIPS CQMs; denominator via automation.
Climate-Tech Platform
GHG emissions accounting & management — measuring and managing carbon footprint.
Truck Dispatch & Brokerage AI
Voice & browser agents, orchestrated, for truck dispatch & load brokerage.
LearnWith.ai · Spiky educational POVs
Research contribution to LearnWith.ai's Spiky educational POVs — see Recent research.
Trilogy / ESW Capital via Crossover
Built Atlas (L1/L2 triage → RAG over the KB → escalation) that took a ~200-person desk to 10; a VP Finance AI for the M&A (Acquisitions & Imports) pipeline; and the org's Data Agent for the COO's team.
VentureCoPilot
Generative AI for VC due diligence — a scrape → OCR → vectorize → RAG pipeline over document-heavy analysis, plus the first chatbot/agents. Python · LangChain · LlamaIndex · OSS + OpenAI · AWS/Azure.
SkratchDigital
Led all technology across agriculture, aquaculture & aeroponics programs — architected AI/ML, BI, IoT & real-time systems and wrote the hardest parts of web/mobile/backend/data. In the first quarter: up to 2× revenue and project-closure ratio, −19% cost, +16 NPS.
Servii, LLC · Technical Lead
A hyperlocal services platform — "Uber for all work types."
BynUp · Co-founder / CTO
Aquaculture IoT + drones on Apache Pulsar; water-quality; computerized hatcheries.
Quarannect → Civilment · civic effort
A public-good effort (not a company): Covid quarantine support that evolved into citizen-led services.
Trilogy / ESW Capital Group via Crossover
Two roles (~half each): first Support Architect (Software Imports — support & professional services for acquired SaaS), then Knowledge Architect (the knowledge-import framework). SymphonyCommerce, Verdiem, ServiceGateway, Jive (on Kafka). Produced user/developer/admin guides, KB articles & e-learning; 97% quality, 100% target.
AgTech R&D · independent
Applied technology & sensing to agriculture, hydroponics & aeroponics — the R&D that became SkratchDigital.
Kohat Cement Company Limited
Built & integrated a broad suite: CMMS, HSE, PLC / industrial control, separate Store and Scrap systems, and HRMS (recruitment, leaves) plus Learning & Development.
FlashDeals · Co-founder / CTO
A flash-deals e-commerce platform.
Boulevard 57 · systems
POS, ticketing & venue systems plus customer-facing websites/portals.
Cue Cinemas · at Boulevard 57
Cinema automation, ticketing & POS with websites/portals — at Boulevard 57.
TECLD, Inc.
Next-generation devices: custom Android for computer vision/AR, advanced chips (SoC + FPGA + AI accelerators), and the encrypted P2P underlay (U.S. provisional patent) for smart phones & glasses. Built Servii, a real-time work engine.
Right Way · Consultant
Built PatientConcern — real-time doctor scheduling & patient records (XMPP via JAXL/Lightr/Strophe on Openfire) — for Right Way, a medical-services start-up; reached the Plan9 incubator.
Cinnova
Built & integrated VoIP / unified-communications offerings on the carrier-grade Broadsoft platform (BroadWorks / UC-One), integrating SIP + XMPP — enterprise real-time UC before it was common.
Virtual Live Technologies
Built live chat, voice & video on XMPP/WebRTC/AMQP (clustered Openfire + RhinoJS, Strophe.js over BOSH); headed native, hybrid & cross-platform Android/iOS apps. Won a $110K project against bigger firms on design alone — a 10% partnership.
LiveAdmins, LLC
Designed a small network; integrated Elastix voice + CRM into their support SaaS; set up Apache Traffic Server proxies, Active Directory, central file-sharing, monitoring & Linux firewalls. Proposed WebRTC as a next-gen voice layer — turned down as ahead of its time.
Corvit Systems, Peshawar Sold
Taught CCNA/CCNP. Took a partnership and relocated Lahore→Peshawar to revitalise a declining institute — restructured its business fronts and won hospital-network projects, enabling a sale within six months.
MindBridgeBPO
Promoted to supervisor on my first day for topping every training test. The CEO called me "The Champ," forwarding me every challenge no one else would touch. Led 20+ on global network monitoring, and caught a bankrupt partner's transactions in time (see Signature moments).
PTCL, Lahore
Telecom support (WLL/DSL/ISDN/PSTN) in Urdu, English & Punjabi. Found the record-retrieval fix during the national 7→8-digit migration (see Signature moments); declined a network/server-team offer to first build fundamentals.
Technical skills
Everything I've worked with, grouped into independent areas. Highlighted chips are where I'm strongest.
AI · ML · GenAIagents, vision & data
Technical Writing · Knowledge · Traininga lifelong craft
Real-time · Messagingqueueing & streaming
Networking · Telecomall 7 OSI layers · CCIE-level R&S
Cloudproviders
DevOps · SysAdmin · Virtualizationbuild, ship & operate
Industrial · OT · Enterpriseplant & HR systems
Programming Languagesproduction & research
Java & Web stackenterprise & markup
DatabasesSQL & NoSQL
Blockchain · Web3decentralized
Hardware · IoT · Roboticssilicon · edge · cyber-physical
Frontend · Mobile · Cross-platformweb · native · desktop
Support Architectureknowledge & ops
Tools · Project Managementdelivery
Personal & interpersonal skills
Kept deliberately separate from the technical stack — the human side of how I work.
Languages
Across listening, reading, writing and speaking.
English Expert
Urdu Expert
Punjabi Expert
Arabic Advanced
Turkish Basic+
Hebrew · Greek Very basic
Education, certifications & study
Each provider listed separately. The specializations (left) expand to their component courses; degrees, certifications and self-study are on the right.
AWS Cloud Solutions Architect AWS
- AWS Cloud Technical Essentials
- Architecting Solutions on AWS
- AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Capstone
DevOps on AWS AWS
- AWS Fundamentals
- DevOps Engineering on AWS
- AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
AWS Fundamentals AWS
- AWS Cloud Technical Essentials
- Migrating to the AWS Cloud
- Building Serverless Applications
- AWS Fundamentals Capstone
Advanced Data Analytics Google
- Foundations of Data Science
- Get Started with Python
- Go Beyond the Numbers
- The Power of Statistics
- Regression Analysis
- Machine Learning for Data Analysis
- Capstone Project
Data Analytics Google
- Foundations: Data, Data, Everywhere
- Ask Questions to Make Data-Driven Decisions
- Prepare Data for Exploration
- Process Data from Dirty to Clean
- Analyze Data to Answer Questions
- Share Data Through the Art of Visualization
- Capstone
Business Intelligence Google
- Introduction to Business Intelligence
- Data Warehousing
- ELT Data Modeling
- Data Visualization with Looker
- BI Analytics with Looker
Project Management Google
- Foundations of Project Management
- Project Planning: Putting It All Together
- Project Execution: Running the Project
- Agile Project Management
- Capstone: Applying PM in the Real World
Creating Business Value with Data & Looker GCP
- Looker Basics
- LookML Fundamentals
- Building Business Value with Data
Generative AI API Codio
- Introduction to LLMs
- Prompt Engineering
- GenAI API Integration
- Building Apps with LLM APIs
Cybersecurity Attack & Defense EC-Council
- Ethical Hacking Essentials
- Network Defense Essentials
- Digital Forensics Essentials
Blockchain U. at Buffalo
- Blockchain Basics
- Smart Contracts
- Decentralized Applications
- Blockchain Platforms
Hands-on Internet of Things U. of Illinois
- Introduction to IoT
- IoT Devices & Sensors
- IoT Communication Protocols
- IoT Cloud & Analytics
Scrum Master Certification LearnQuest
- Scrum Master Training
- Scrum Certification Preparation
Formal Education
- M.C.S. — Pak-AIMS · full scholarship · 2017
- B.E. — Telecommunications · I.E.T., A.I.O.U · 2009
- B.A. — English Literature · Univ. of the Punjab · 2008
- F.Sc. — Pre-Engineering · FBISE, Islamabad · 2003
English Proficiency Tests
- IELTS — Band 7.0 · British Council · 2003
- TOEFL — score 110 · 2005
Core Networking · expert · Cisco & Juniper
- CCIE — Routing & Switching · Cisco · 2012
- JNCIS — JUNOS Security · Juniper · 2009
- JNCIS — Enterprise Routing · Juniper · 2009
- JNCIA — JUNOS · Juniper · 2009
- JNCIA — Enterprise Routing · Juniper · 2009
- JNCIA — Enterprise Switching · Juniper · 2009
MIT OpenCourseWare
- Intro to CS & Programming
- Introduction to Algorithms
- Elements of Software Construction
- Software Engineering
Stanford
- Programming Methodology
- Programming Abstractions
- Programming Paradigms
- CS101 — Introduction to Computing
- Compilers
- Introduction to Haptics
- Introduction to Databases — 8-part series:
- DB1 — Databases (Introduction)
- DB2 — XML Data
- DB3 — JSON Data
- DB4 — Relational Algebra
- DB5 — SQL
- DB6 — XPath & XQuery
- DB7 — XSLT
- DB8 — Relational Design Theory
edX
- Computers: Arts, Magic & Science
- Introduction to Computer Science
- Paradigms of Computer Programming
- Introduction to Functional Programming
- Foundation of Computer Graphics
- Sense, Control & Act
Saylor.org
- CS101 — Introduction to Computer Science I
- CS102 — Introduction to Computer Science II
- CS107 — C++ Programming
- CS201 — Elementary Data Structures
- CS202 — Discrete Structures
Codecademy
- Python
- JavaScript
- Web Development
w3Schools
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- SQL
A.I.O.U
- Calculus I & II · Differential Equations
- Linear Algebra · Numerical Analysis
- Applied Physics · Electromagnetic Field Theory
- Circuit Theory I & II · Network Analysis
- Electronic Devices & Circuit Design
- Digital Logic Design
- Microprocessor Architecture & Assembly
- Signals & Systems · Probability & Random Variables
- Communication Systems I & II
- Wave Propagation & Antennas · Transmission Lines & Microwaves
- Digital Signal Processing
- Computer Networks
- Instrumentation & Control Systems
- Intro to Computer Science · Programming (C/C++) · Data Structures
- Database Systems
- Engineering Management & Economics