Alim Zaib

I enjoy building thoughtful, useful software and understanding the systems behind it, with my current work focused on production-ready AI agents and multi-agent systems that automate complex workflows

Experience

NatWest Group

D&A Graduate (Machine Learning Engineer)

Sep 2025 - Present

  • Built an AI-assisted customer onboarding platform combining document processing, LLM reasoning and real-time event streaming to automate application verification
  • Refactored Python microservices around Pydantic models and integrated offline/online LLM evaluations, structured logging and Splunk alerting, while reducing evaluation and persistence time by ~76%
  • Built the monitoring stage for a time-series forecasting pipeline, publishing weekly performance metrics to Comet MPM and supporting model evaluation in AWS SageMaker

IBM

Graduate Software Engineer

Mar 2025 - Aug 2025

  • Built full-stack product features with Java, TypeScript and React for IBM Event Automation (Event endpoint management)
  • Developed Java/Vert.x REST APIs for certificate management and collaborator access control, with validation and automated tests
  • Prototyped a Node.js/Docker build pipeline to transform IBM documentation into structured in-product content for air-gapped deployments

Projects

Minecraft GPT ModAn in-game AI assistant for real-time answers and suggestionsHex Game AIA Hex agent using minimax, alpha-beta pruning and graph heuristicsFungiA terminal version of the two-player board game, built in Java
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Education

University of Manchester

BSc(Hons) Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)

2021 - 2024