I spent four years shipping and leading production web systems. I now spend my research time on applied ML — distilling frontier-model capability into small models, building safety classifiers, and designing the evaluation infrastructure that proves any of it actually works.
Day to day I'm a Full-Stack Developer, Jr. Lecturer & Team Lead at The Superior Group, where I've architected five platforms now live across the university, lead a team of seven developers, and teach modern web development to cohorts of 1500 students. I also serve as Lead Developer at Cytrom Tech in Abu Dhabi, delivering client platforms across ERP, travel, CRM and retail. Alongside that I'm reading for aMasters in Software Engineering at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
The thing that ties it together: I don't ship claims without numbers. Every research project below states what it was measured against, on what data, and where it still falls short.
// education
Masters in Software Engineering2026 — Present
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano · Italy · EQF level 7Bachelors in Software Engineering2019 — 2023
The Superior University · Lahore, Pakistan · EQF level 6- focusDistillation · LLM safety · Evaluation infrastructure
- rolesTeam Lead · Jr. Lecturer · Full-Stack Engineer
- langsUrdu (native) · English (B2)
- basedBolzano, Italy — open to remote & relocation
ali_hamza.py
from engineering import Systems, Evals
ali_hamza = {
'focus': 'applied ML systems',
'ships': ['distillation', 'guardrails',
'eval harnesses'],
'also': ['Laravel', 'Django', 'React'],
'based': 'Bolzano, IT',
'oss_projects': 6,
'claims_without_numbers': False,
}