Zaid Chughtai

Software Engineer

ResearchCollab.ai•  May 2024 - Present•  Remote

Automated data collection from scholarly sources using TaskMagic, integrating Google Scholar with AI-powered citation extraction and syncing results with AiTable for research analysis. Developed an AI-based pipeline to extract PDF metadata using Azure OpenAI, automating the process of retrieving article information from academic journals. Built and deployed a web scraping solution using ActivePieces (Zapier alternative) to pull data from various RSS feeds into AiTable, streamlining content aggregation for research papers. Integrated Plerdy web analytics into multiple websites, providing insights on user interaction and engagement through AI-enhanced tracking. Worked with LangChain and Gemini LLM API to analyse research documents and build AI-driven applications for automating document insights extraction. Led the setup and deployment of Uptime monitoring solutions to track the availability of various web services, using automation tools to minimise manual intervention. Developed Python applications to scrape tools from selected websites, summarising the latest updates using AI and displaying them on a web interface.

Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

Computer Science, BS•  September 2021 - May 2024•  GPA: 3.6

BSc (Hons.) Computer Science | Queen Mary University of London (Upper Second Class Honours, 2:1) | 2021 - 2024 Final year project (90.5%): VisualPromptBuilder, open-source, responsive web-app for nonverbal/cognitively disabled individuals to communicate, translate and vocalise sentences formed using pictograms. Used React, Next.js, TypeScript Relevant modules: Graphical User Interfaces, Software Engineering, Web Programming, User Experience Design, Multi-platform Game Development, Digital Media and Social Networks, Algorithms and Data Structures