Sami Haroon

Sami Haroon

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT & AI ENGINEERING

Dublin, Ireland

Profile summary

Strategic Software Architect & AI Engineering professional with 11 years shaping document intelligence, multi-tenant SaaS, and machine learning infrastructure. Known for delivering 0-to-1 social VR platforms, optimizing C/C++ routing systems, and scaling cloud environments. Committed to building secure, customer-controlled AI systems and driving high-performance engineering teams across complex technical domains.

Career highlights

Document Intelligence Platform Architecture: Led a sovereign Document Intelligence platform using layout detection and computer vision, reaching high benchmark scores and packaging deployments for customer-controlled environments.

VR Platform and Moderation Engineering: Built a social VR platform from zero to one spanning motion tracking and WebRTC, while shipping computer vision moderation at high accuracy.

ML Infrastructure and Search Optimization: Rebuilt preference-based search at seed stage, lifting contextual relevance and user satisfaction scores while automating moderation across daily interactions.

C++ Omnichannel Routing Optimization: Built shared-memory C/C++ APIs for AI-driven omnichannel routing, improving benchmark performance and reducing memory use.

Key skills

TechnicalPython Typescript FastAPI PostgreSQL WebRTC AWS/GCP Docker Redis
ProfessionalPeople Management Situational Awareness 0-to-1 Delivery Engineering Management Hiring & Mentoring Sovereign AI Document Intelligence LLMs/VLMs Computer Vision/OCR RAG AI Agents Model Evaluation PyTorch Terraform Kafka

Professional experience

VP, AI & RESEARCHMar 2026 - Present
PROVIDUS TECHNOLOGIES

Defines the product and research strategy for a sovereign Document Intelligence platform, steering deployments across multi-tenant SaaS, private cloud, and on-premises environments for academia, healthcare, logistics, and financial services.

  • Reached 99% DocVQA and 95% OmniDocBench v1.5 through layout detection, OCR, computer vision, VLMs, and agents.
  • Packaged GPU and CPU deployments across Linux, macOS, and Windows for customer-controlled environments.
  • Built agentic compliance and workflow automation with enterprise teams.
  • Translated ambiguous operating constraints into deployable, customer-controlled systems.
CO-FOUNDER & CTOMay 2024 - Mar 2026
VUPECHAT

Shaped technology strategy and managed engineering operations, directing platform architecture and infrastructure development for virtual reality applications.

  • Built a social VR platform from the ground up for 18,000+ VTubers, encompassing motion tracking, avatar interactions, WebRTC, computer vision, and community matching.
  • Maintained sub-100 ms latency across 1,000+ concurrent sessions and shipped computer vision moderation at 99.2% accuracy.
  • Developed embedding- and classifier-based matching that grouped users by persona and engagement patterns to improve community discovery.
STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEERDec 2022 - Apr 2024
BLOSSOM

Directed infrastructure and product development, overseeing AWS and ML systems from seed stage onward. Managed engineering teams while guiding coaching products through initial launch phases and mentoring senior staff during rapid expansion periods.

  • Rebuilt preference-based search algorithms, lifting contextual relevance 300% and user satisfaction from 3.2 to 4.8/5.
  • Automated moderation across 10,000 daily interactions, cutting manual review 90% while keeping human review focused on high-risk cases.
SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGERFeb 2022 - Jun 2023
REMOTEBASE

Managed engineering organizations of up to 25 personnel spanning enterprise engagements, which included a 12-person embedded team at Arrow Payments. Directed the design and delivery of internal products for candidate sourcing, video interviews, technical assessments, onboarding, and client-team operations.

  • Migrated infrastructure to AWS CDK, reducing cloud costs by 35%.
  • Delivered internal operational software to support candidate sourcing and onboarding workflows.
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERDec 2020 - Apr 2022
AFINITI
  • Improved benchmark performance by 60 percent and reduced memory usage by 30 percent through core algorithmic optimization.
  • Created the team first structured application programming interface documentation system, reducing onboarding from weeks to days.
SOFTWARE ENGINEERJan 2020 - Jan 2021
KEPLER ANALYTICS
  • Executed point of sale electronic data interchange ETL integrations connecting twenty five plus global retail chains to central database nodes.
  • Engineered reporting systems across five hundred plus operational metrics and event-driven analytics feeds.
SOFTWARE ENGINEERNov 2018 - Dec 2019
ORAAN
  • Built the GCP delivery pipeline to support cloud infrastructure operations.
  • Developed the RBAC operations portal for administrative access management.
SOFTWARE ENGINEEROct 2017 - Oct 2018
TECHLOGIX
  • Wrote React Native and mobile application code.
Executive Committee MemberJan 2018 - Jan 2020
GDG Kolachi
Director, Corporate PartnershipsJan 2019 - Jan 2020
Google Business Group Karachi
Event ChairpersonJan 2015 - Jan 2018
NEDUET ACM Student Chapter
Google Business Group Karachi / DirectorJan 2019 - Jan 2020
Corporate Partnerships

Education

MSc in Computing (Artificial Intelligence)Jan 2026 - Present
Dublin City University
B.E. Software EngineeringJan 2014 - Jan 2017
NED University
  • CGPA 3.52/4.00
  • Koshish Full-Tuition Scholar

Certifications

Verified International Academic QualificationWES Canada2023-02-01T00:00:00.000Z