Luqman Hakim Bin Md Shani

AI Engineer

Bachelor of Computer Science in Artificial IntelligenceUniversiti Malaya

Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) graduate building generative-AI and agentic solutions on AWS, and the web applications around them. The map shows my projects, my roles and the technology they share: drag to orbit, click a node to open it.

About Luqman Hakim Bin Md Shani

AI Engineer. Bachelor of Computer Science in Artificial Intelligence, Universiti Malaya.

Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) graduate from Universiti Malaya, specialising in generative AI, prompt engineering and LLM-powered conversational systems in Python.

My capstone, Socratic Prompt, is a locally deployable Socratic tutoring system: a prompt-engineered FLAN-T5-Large model, a sentence-transformer RAG pipeline and a phase-aware prompting framework that guides learners through structured inquiry.

At Pepper Labs I design, build and maintain AI-powered and agentic solutions on AWS for client and internal projects. Before that I shipped production features as a software engineering intern at MyParcel Asia, integrating OAuth 2.0, payment gateways and REST APIs in an Agile, Git-based team.

Alongside the code I run Ruko Visuals, shooting convocations, cars and the city in Kuala Lumpur.

Work experience

AI Engineer (K-Youth Development Programme), Pepper Labs Sdn. Bhd. (Aug 2026 – Present)

Four-month industry placement in the AI Department, designing, building and maintaining AI-powered and agentic AI solutions on AWS for client and internal projects. Offered a full-time Graduate AI Engineer position (Sept 2026).

Collaborated with internal stakeholders and a government ministry client to translate business workflow and data requirements into the solution architecture for a grant management system.
Maintained and synced the AWS S3-backed knowledge base powering a parliamentary-records AI assistant, preparing and replicating it across multiple client AWS accounts.
Built a reusable AWS Transcribe rebuild template so transcription pipelines can be redeployed quickly on other accounts.
Prototyped a meeting-minutes workflow automation in Amazon Quick Flows, using prompt-driven extraction and validation steps to pull action items from transcripts and draft follow-up emails in Gmail.
Wrote the PRD and system specifications for a company-wide meeting-minutes and action-item platform, covering multi-format ingestion, transcription, and Google, Microsoft and Zoom integrations.
Planned a proof-of-concept pilot for adopting Amazon Quick Apps as internal tooling in the AI Department, scoping candidate apps for programme operations tracking.
Conducted R&D research on emerging AI and cloud tools to support solution proposals for public-sector and utilities clients.
Delivered hands-on Kiro (AWS's AI coding IDE) workshops in partnership with AWS, and prepared material for a K-Youth programme webinar.

Software Engineering Intern, MyParcel Asia Sdn. Bhd. (Feb 2025 – Jul 2025)

Full-stack engineering internship at a Malaysian logistics-technology company, building and shipping production features for client-facing web platforms within an Agile team.

Built and shipped production features across full-stack web applications (Laravel, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Bootstrap), following MVC architecture and an Agile development workflow.
Integrated production third-party APIs: Google OAuth 2.0, the Billplz payment gateway, Gmail API (ticketing and email automation), and the WasapBot messaging API, implementing secure authentication and online credit top-up flows.
Engineered reactive frontend modules with Laravel Livewire for the LiveStore platform, and developed CRUD business logic with Eloquent ORM, improving UI responsiveness and usability.
Improved application performance using asynchronous background workers and queues, and validated backend-to-API communication through Postman testing and debugging.
Collaborated with senior developers on code reviews, legacy-code refactoring, and Git-based deployment of client-facing demo systems, working with the development and SEO teams.

Media, Program & Leadership, Universiti Malaya Global Buddies (UMGB) (2024 – Feb 2026)

Student-led organisation supporting international exchange students; I served across media, programme and leadership functions.

Club videographer and editor, producing and editing promotional and event media to document activities and grow engagement.
Appointed Sports Club Deputy Director and Program & Protocol member, coordinating cross-cultural events and supporting exchange students.
Worked daily with multinational student teams to deliver events end to end.

Guide Marshal (Part-Time), Camp 5 Climbing Gym, Kuala Lumpur (Apr 2023 – May 2025)

Operations and safety role at one of Malaysia's leading indoor climbing facilities.

Enforced safety protocols and coached climbers on equipment and technique, maintaining a safe environment under high footfall.
Managed retail operations including inventory, transactions and customer service, alongside full-time study.

Projects

Ruko Visuals

Website and booking system for my photography business: convocation, automotive and street work around Kuala Lumpur, with a gallery and a WhatsApp booking flow.

Stack: HTML/CSS/JS, Photography

Lunas

A mobile-first, bilingual (Bahasa Melayu / English) debt and commitment planner for everyday Malaysians. Local-first, with exact integer-sen money maths and a ports-and-adapters core.

Stack: TypeScript, AWS, DynamoDB

AI Academic Success Platform

Capstone prototype: research discovery, an academic-integrity advisor, writing support and a source organiser for students at rural and distance-learning universities, grounded in each institution's own policies, on a local LLM with English and Bahasa Malaysia support.

Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, FastAPI, Python, Ollama, pgvector

Graph RAG Capstone

Knowledge-graph-augmented RAG over a tech-news corpus, set against a generic-RAG baseline so the two can be compared side by side, with an explorer UI and evaluation harness.

Stack: FastAPI, Python, Neo4j, ChromaDB, Gemini, React, TypeScript, Tailwind

Skills and tech stack

Generative AI & LLMs: Prompt Engineering, LLMs, Agentic AI and workflow automation, conversational AI

Retrieval & NLP: RAG, sentence-transformers, semantic search, Hugging Face

Cloud & AI platforms: AWS, Amazon Quick Flows and Quick Apps, Kiro

Software engineering: Python, REST APIs, OAuth 2.0, Git and GitHub, Agile / SDLC, Postman

Solution design: Solution architecture, PRDs and technical documentation, proof-of-concept planning

Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, Java

Frontend: Next.js, React, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Streamlit

Backend & APIs: FastAPI, Laravel, REST, OAuth 2.0

AI & ML: Hugging Face (FLAN-T5), sentence-transformers, Gemini API, Claude API, Ollama, RAG

Data: Neo4j, ChromaDB, PostgreSQL with pgvector, MySQL, SQLite, DynamoDB

Cloud & tooling: AWS (S3, Transcribe, Amazon Quick), Docker, Git and GitHub, Vercel, Cloudflare, Postman, Kiro