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Iftekhar Rafi
Applied ML, software systems, and product engineering.

Applied machine learning and software systems for real-world problems.

I build machine learning and software systems end to end, from Fyndel's financial forecasting and workbook intelligence workflows to NLP and anomaly-detection projects with practical data pipelines, APIs, and interfaces.

Primary lane

Applied machine learning, software engineering, and data-heavy systems work across financial, NLP, and anomaly-detection problems

Current focus

Fyndel: an AI-powered construction finance platform for forecasting, workbook intelligence, accounting integrations, and tenant-scoped financial signals

Machine learning with broader engineering range

The model matters. The product around it decides whether anyone trusts it.

I am an Electrical Engineering student in the Computer Option at Dalhousie University, building Fyndel and ML systems that stay close to data quality, evaluation, inference services, APIs, embedded constraints, and the interface where someone finally uses the result.

Capability shape

Skill depth clusters around applied ML and the engineering work that carries it into usable systems.

Machine Learning & AI85
Data & Analytics83
Web & APIs83
Embedded & Hardware86

Financial software and data systems

Fyndel is an AI-powered construction finance platform with WIP reporting, secure multi-tenancy, workbook intelligence, forecasting workflows, and tenant-scoped financial insight delivery.

Next.jsSupabasePostgreSQLFastAPI

Machine learning systems

NLP, anomaly detection, model evaluation, and the engineering work required to make model output usable beyond an experiment notebook.

PyTorchscikit-learnTransformersFastAPI

Embedded and real-time engineering

Embedded C and FreeRTOS work on LORIS has kept reliability, protocols, and failure modes central to how I approach software systems.

CFreeRTOSSPI / I2C / UARTTesting

Selected experience

Product work, ML systems, lab operations, and flight software shaped the same engineering habits.

Nov 2025 - Present

Founder and Product Engineer

Fyndel

Co-founded Fyndel, an AI-powered construction financial intelligence platform for WIP reporting, forecasting, workbook imports, accounting integrations, and multi-tenant financial workflows.

Multi-month development cycle

ML Engineer and Full-Stack Developer

Milton Training Needs Analysis Platform

Engineered a hybrid NLP workflow in a Lockheed Martin capstone project, reaching 95% KSA extraction accuracy with sub-second API response times.

Oct 2021 - Apr 2023

Makerspace Coordinator

Dalhousie University (Emera IdeaHub)

Advised students on more than 100 engineering projects, spanning mechanical, electrical, and software implementation work.

Selected work

Fyndel, NLP, and anomaly detection projects with real delivery constraints.

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Preview of Fyndel Construction Financial Intelligence Platform

AI-Powered Construction Fintech Platform

Fyndel Construction Financial Intelligence Platform

AI-powered construction finance platform turning WIP reports, cost data, workbook imports, and accounting signals into forecasts, risk signals, and operational insight.

A production-focused product build combining financial data modeling, workbook intelligence, predictive models, and tenant-scoped insight delivery.

Next.js 16TypeScriptSupabasePostgreSQL
Preview of Milton Training Needs Analysis Platform

NLP / Applied ML Platform

Milton Training Needs Analysis Platform

Hybrid NLP and classification system for extracting KSAs and scoring training needs from technical documents.

An end-to-end NLP system built in a Lockheed-linked capstone setting, combining language modeling, scoring logic, API design, and a workflow a non-ML user could use.

PythonFastAPIDockerPyTorch

Next step

Building a model is one part. Making it usable is the part I care about.

I like work where model behavior, data flow, API boundaries, and interface details have to line up cleanly enough for someone else to trust the system.