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Karim Sangid.

AI & Security Engineer / Full-Stack Product Builder / Azure AZ-204 / Founder, Hummus Development LLC
Email karimsangid@gmail.com Web karimsangid.is-a.dev LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/karim-sangid GitHub github.com/karimsangid

Summary

Engineer who ships into production. Through Hummus Development LLC, operate a one-person product studio building a live roofing-lead marketplace (Stripe, Twilio, Supabase), multi-brand client web platforms, a cross-platform AI dating app with custom LoRA fine-tuning on a local RTX 4060 Ti, and an AI-powered SIEM companion. Day job: enterprise identity-management deployment at NextgenID for federal-compliance environments (NIST, FIPS). MS Computer Science at George Mason University. Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204). 20+ shipped projects, 75,000+ lines of production code. US Citizen, clearance eligible.

Experience

Field Engineer II — NextgenID, McLean, VA
Aug 2025 – Mar 2026
  • Led enterprise deployment of integrated identity-management hardware/software systems across multiple federal client sites
  • Resolved production incidents across networking, OS, and application layers with 95%+ first-visit resolution
  • Implemented secure system configurations aligned with NIST and FIPS controls for federal-compliance environments
  • Collaborated with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver performance improvements and reduce system downtime
Quality Assurance & Cybersecurity Engineer — NextgenID, McLean, VA
Aug 2024 – Aug 2025
  • Built Python automation that reduced manual QA effort by 40%+ and accelerated release cycles
  • Resolved 70–85% of reported defects through structured debugging, root cause analysis, and regression testing
  • Deployed SIEM monitoring solutions and configured network security controls, improving threat detection coverage
  • Conducted vulnerability assessments and authored security documentation for FedRAMP / NIST 800-53 audits
Founder & Software Engineer — Hummus Development LLC
Nov 2021 – Present
  • Operate a one-person product studio: client websites, in-house SaaS, AI tooling, and native iOS apps end-to-end
  • Delivered first contracted client engagement April 2026 (Wheaton Valet Cleaners) — 5-page Next.js 16 rebuild + analytics + chatbot
  • Run live infrastructure on Vercel, Netlify, Supabase, Stripe, Twilio, Resend, and a self-hosted Tailscale-served AI gateway
  • Maintain operational discipline: Git-before-deploy, restoreSiteDeploy rollback drills, env-var hygiene, incident-response playbooks
Lead Technical Specialist — New Horizon Hosting LLC
Aug 2020 – Apr 2022
  • Managed Windows Server hosting environments supporting 50+ client applications with 99.9% uptime SLA
  • Developed PHP/SQL web applications serving active end-user bases across multiple client sites

Projects

RoofRoof.solutions — Live Roofing-Lead Marketplace  roofroof.solutions
Hummus Development LLC
  • Architected an 8,000+ line Express/Node + Netlify Functions marketplace where contractors purchase qualified roofing leads, billed upfront via Stripe
  • Built custom server-authoritative coupon engine (single-use per user, max-quantity caps), admin order/refund flow with FK-safe deletion, and lead-capture SMS blast over Twilio
  • Wired Supabase Postgres via PgBouncer transaction pooler, RLS on every table, CAPI-deduped Pixel events (PageView / Lead / Schedule), and Resend-verified email domain
  • Operate live: Netlify Pro auto-deploy from GitHub (~28s push-to-live), incident playbook including restoreSiteDeploy rollback when a contributor rogue-deployed an old bundle
Node.jsExpressNetlify FunctionsSupabaseStripeTwilioResendMeta CAPI
Wheaton Valet Cleaners — Multi-Brand Client Rebuild  live preview
Hummus Development LLC
  • Delivered full Next.js 16 + Tailwind + Framer Motion rebuild for Wheaton Valet Cleaners LLC: 5 brand pages (flagship + 3 sister locations + DOE federal site), 10 service routes, A-grade SEO with 12 JSON-LD schemas
  • Wired live Resend transactional email + Twilio SMS through a single /api/intake endpoint; AI chatbot smoke-tested 14/14 across price-quote, hours, address-intent, and Liberty Press flows
  • First contracted Hummus Development client engagement — delivered, deployed, and signed off in April 2026
Next.js 16React 19TailwindFramer MotionVercelResendTwilio
SentinelIQ — AI Security Log Analyzer  github.com/karimsangid/sentinel-iq
Hummus Development LLC
  • AI-powered SIEM companion that ingests security logs (syslog, Windows Events, CEF, firewall CSV); computes vector embeddings into ChromaDB and runs three independent anomaly-scoring methods over the timeline
  • Natural-language query engine translates plain-English security questions into structured filter pipelines via LLM + tool calls; results return with citations to raw events
  • React dashboard streams real-time log events over WebSocket with severity timeline, threat heatmap, and AI-generated incident summaries
PythonFastAPIReactChromaDBOllamaDockerWebSocket
Papi AI — Cross-Platform AI Wingman + Custom LoRA  papi-ai-mu.vercel.app
Hummus Development LLC
  • React Native (Expo SDK 54) mobile app with EAS-Update preview channel; tap-to-fullscreen chat-image modal, voice + screenshot reply, per-match memory, vision (HEIC re-encode + 1600px resize)
  • Vercel FastAPI backend on Groq Llama 3.3 70B (chat) and whisper-large-v3 (multilingual voice transcription); strict version-tagged rollouts with SQLite memory + WebSocket streaming
  • Self-hosted LoRA fine-tune lab (Unsloth + WSL + RTX 4060 Ti 16GB): seed extraction, synthetic-corpus generation, Qwen2.5-7B training, GGUF export, served via local Ollama gateway
React NativeExpoFastAPIGroqVercelUnslothLoRA / GGUFOllama
Local AI Gateway + Hummus IQ — Self-Hosted AI Stack  Tailscale-served
Hummus Development LLC
  • Local AI Gateway: Bearer-auth OpenAI-compat HTTP API (/v1/chat/completions, /v1/embeddings) over Tailscale, Windows Scheduled Task at logon, foundation for fully local AI workflows
  • Hummus IQ v8: 5,400-line FastAPI assistant — RAG (ChromaDB), SQLite thread persistence, dynamic Ollama model resolver per role, vision pipeline, 7-engine parallel web search, code execution, real WebSocket streaming with cancel
  • Additional shipped work: Cram (RAG study assistant with SM-2 spaced repetition), HummusOSINT (recon + PDF reports), HummusLink (cross-platform sync bridge), Hummus Pulse + HummusTravel (native SwiftUI + WidgetKit iOS apps)
PythonFastAPIOllamaChromaDBTailscaleSwiftUI / WidgetKitPWA

Technical Skills

Languages
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptJavaC#SQLSwiftLuaPHPBashPowerShell
AI / ML
RAGLoRA Fine-TuningUnslothGGUF / llama.cppLLM IntegrationVector DBsEmbeddingsOpenCVChromaDBOllamaGroqWhisper
Web
Next.js 16React 19FastAPIExpress.jsFlaskReact Native / ExpoSwiftUI / WidgetKitWebSocketTailwindFramer Motion
Cloud / Infra
Microsoft AzureVercelNetlifySupabaseDockerCI/CDGitHub ActionsEAS UpdateTailscaleLinux
Pay / Comms
Stripe (live)Twilio SMSResendMeta Pixel + CAPIGA4GTM
Security
SIEMVulnerability AssessmentPenetration TestingOSINTThreat DetectionNIST 800-53FIPSFedRAMPJWT / OAuth
Data
PostgreSQLSQLiteChromaDBPgBouncer / RLSSQL TuningSchema Design

Education & Certifications

Master of Science, Computer Science In Progress
George Mason University · Fairfax, VA
AZ-204 Microsoft Azure Developer Associate
GMU Ethical Hacking · 2020
Cert Python Programming
Cert C# Development
Capital One Coders Most Technical Application Award · 2016