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EX IT Intern @ flydubai · Dubai, UAE

Arif Islam
Shaik

AI & ML Engineer  ·  Computer Vision  ·  LLM Agents  ·  Data Science

CS student at Manipal Academy Dubai, specialising in AI and machine learning. Completed 2 internships while learning about AI fundamentals and enterprise IT through an NSDC-assessed program and an internship at flydubai. Built 9 applied projects across Python, Scikit-learn, OpenCV, TensorFlow/Keras, and LLM agent frameworks, including a RAG-based email support agent built during the flydubai rotation on Gemini, FAISS, and a custom MCP server.

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Python TensorFlow AutoGPT LLM Agents OpenCV Scikit-learn Flutter FastAPI Streamlit Docker
Based in
Dubai, UAE
2 Internships Completed · Based in Dubai
IT Intern · Jun – Aug 2026
flydubai
Dubai, UAE · Masar Programme
Completed
OPS
Operations
ARCH
Architecture
AI
RAG Agent
Value Proposition

What I Bring to the Table

Why hire me: production-minded AI engineering, grounded agent architectures, and enterprise agility — backed by verified builds.

9+2
"Production-grade AI systems, not just theoretical models."
2 internships completed (flydubai enterprise IT & NSDC-assessed AI) + 9 end-to-end applied builds shipped across LLM agents, computer vision, and full-stack software.
Agentic AI & Grounded RAG

Designs LLM agent pipelines with deterministic tool execution, custom HTTP MCP servers, and FAISS vector retrieval with human-in-the-loop sign-off.

Gemini 3.1 Flash · FAISS · Custom MCP Server · AutoGPT
Real-Time Computer Vision

Builds latency-conscious CV pipelines with OpenCV, Dlib 68-point landmarks, ResNet 128-d face encodings, and real-time EAR fatigue detection.

OpenCV · Dlib · ResNet 128-d · Caffe DNN
Enterprise IT & Rotational Agility

Rotated across 6 core enterprise IT divisions at flydubai (IT Ops, CX, Architecture, PMO, Digital Platforms). Shipped a RAG email triage prototype and Service Desk UI while mastering STLC testing and Agile governance.

flydubai Masar Intern · 6 Enterprise Rotations · STLC & Agile
Audited, Proven ML Metrics

Rigorous validation on held-out test distributions (SMOTE, AUC-ROC, confusion matrices). Graded and verified by Skill India & NSDC government bodies.

85–93% Test Acc. · NSDC / Skill India Verified
Full-Stack Product Delivery

Turns algorithms into user-facing products. Seamlessly ships reactive web frontends, FastAPI microservices, and cross-platform mobile apps with Firebase authentication and Firestore persistence.

Flutter & Dart · FastAPI · React · Firebase · Docker

Skills Dashboard

Technical stack, frameworks, machine learning, LLM architecture & tools.

ML & Data
Python / ML Core
95%
Scikit-learn
88%
Pandas / NumPy / Seaborn
88%
NLTK / NLP / TF-IDF
84%
Statistical Modelling & Power BI
80%
Deep Learning & Computer Vision
TensorFlow / Keras
85%
OpenCV
88%
Dlib / face_recognition
85%
Real-time CV & Caffe DNN
82%
LLM / Agents
Prompt Engineering & System Prompt Engineering
90%
RAG (FAISS) & Gemini API
88%
MCP Server Development
85%
AutoGPT (custom block development)
82%
LLM task chaining & SKILL.md
85%
Cloud & Infra
Google Cloud (AI Studio · Firebase)
82%
AWS (foundational)
75%
Docker & Git
80%
SQL & SQLite
78%
Mobile & Web
Flutter / Dart
82%
HTML / CSS / JavaScript
85%
React / Tailwind CSS
80%
FastAPI / Streamlit
82%
SQL / Backend APIs
78%
Languages
Python · C · C++ · Java · SQL · Dart
English Hindi Urdu Telugu Arabic Bengali Japanese
Skill Area Radar
Tools & Platforms
MS Office 365 Adobe Lightroom Photoshop Canva Google AntiGravity Claude FastAPI Streamlit SQLite Git & GitHub VS Code Google AI Studio
Work

Projects & Builds

9 applied projects shipped. Accuracy = held-out test set, not training data.

Jul – Aug 2026 · Masar Internship Project
Flydubai AI Support System – RAG Email Support System
Completed

Self-initiated during the Masar Internship starting in Rotation 01 (IT Ops/Cargo/CX) and submitted upon internship completion: Gmail API ingestion, an HTTP MCP server standardising the agent's tool calls, Gemini 3.1 Flash classification and reply drafting grounded in FAISS-retrieved case history, a humanizer pass, and human sign-off before send.

HTTP MCP Server Gemini 3.1 Flash FAISS Grounded Human Sign-off
PythonGemini 3.1 Flash FAISSFastAPI ReactGmail API MCP ServerSQLite
My Role
End-to-end RAG architecture, HTTP MCP server development & Gmail API integration.
Jun 2026
The Human Skill - Claude Style Transfer Skill
Completed

Custom Claude skill that detects and strips AI writing patterns from text — then rewrites output in a neutral human register or user's documented style. Structured prompt harness analyzing vocabulary & sentence distribution.

Style Transfer SKILL.md Arch
Claude APIPrompt Eng Style TransferSKILL.md
Mar – May 2026
AutoGPT Skill Gap Analyser
Completed

Custom AutoGPT agent blocks chaining LLM tasks — resume parsing, job description matching, and gap scoring — into an automated workflow. Part of 3-person team; owned frontend UI & block orchestration.

AutoGPT blocks LLM Chaining
PythonAutoGPT DockerReact Tailwind CSS
Sep – Dec 2025
Churn Prediction Pipeline (Spotify)
Completed

Reusable preprocessing pipeline (IQR outliers, engagement ratio, StandardScaler). 4-layer TF/Keras MLP (256→128→64→32→1) with SMOTE, BatchNorm, Dropout, EarlyStopping; 93% accuracy & business ROI analysis.

93% accuracy Business ROI
TensorFlowKeras Scikit-learnSMOTE Seaborn
Jul – Oct 2025
Real-Time Face Recognition System
Completed

3-stage iteration: Haar cascades → dlib ResNet 128-d encodings → TF/Keras age & gender classification. Real-time frame optimization (every N frames caching), live confidence overlays, and pickle-persisted face database.

Multi-person RT ResNet 128-d
OpenCVface_recognition TensorFlowDlib Caffe DNN
Jul – Aug 2025 · Internship
Customer Churn Prediction - Telecom ML Model
Assessed

End-to-end pipeline on telecom dataset: EDA, feature engineering, dummy encoding, StandardScaler, and Logistic Regression. 88% accuracy on both train and test sets, validated via confusion matrix.

88% accuracy NSDC assessed
PythonScikit-learn Logistic RegressionEDA
Jun – Jul 2025 · Internship
Sentiment Analysis - Movie Reviews
Assessed

Binary sentiment classifier using TF-IDF vectorisation and Logistic Regression on movie-review benchmark. Reached 85% test accuracy after iterating on preprocessing and feature weighting.

85% test accuracy Skill India
PythonNLTK TF-IDFLogistic Regression
Mar – Aug 2025
CB Triage - Healthcare Web & Mobile App
Completed

3-phase web app (lab results, symptom tracker, appointments) converted to cross-platform Flutter mobile. Client-side UI built solo; Firebase Auth & Cloud Firestore scoped for backend integration.

Web → Mobile Firebase
Google AI StudioFlutter DartFirebase
Sep 2024 – Mar 2025
Driver Drowsiness Detection System
Completed

Driver safety prototype monitoring real-time eye aspect ratios via Dlib facial landmarks, triggering an audio alert upon fatigue detection.

Real-time EAR
PythonOpenCV Dlib

Internship Experience

2 internships. Practical industry experience in enterprise IT operations and AI systems engineering.

ROTATION 01 / IT OPS, CARGO & CX
IT Operations, Cargo & Customer Experience (CX)
Rotated through IT Ops, Cargo systems, and Customer Experience divisions during the 8-week rotational engagement.
Gained direct insight into how operational airline systems, flight data, and customer touchpoints interface across departments.
Initiated development of the RAG Email Support Chatbot addressing customer service FAQ queries.
IT OperationsCargo Systems Customer ExperienceAirline IT
Rotation 01 · Initiated RAG Chatbot
ROTATION 02 / IT CORPORATE & SUPPORT
IT Corporate & Support Services
Explored corporate infrastructure, reservations services, and internal user enablement environments.
Understood how corporate IT teams deliver tier-1 and tier-2 support across international airline offices and hubs.
Analyzed helpdesk workflows, ticketing lifecycles, and internal process automation opportunities.
Corporate ITSupport Systems Service DeskProcess Automation
Rotation 02
ROTATION 03 / ECOMMERCE, TRAVEL & LOYALTY
Ecommerce, Travel & Loyalty Platforms
Examined digital commerce architecture driving flydubai web booking, mobile apps, holidays, and travel agent portals.
Analyzed passenger booking funnels, loyalty program integrations, and payment gateway interactions.
Understood high-availability requirements and revenue management systems supporting commercial sales.
EcommerceTravel & Loyalty Booking EnginesAPI Integrations
Rotation 03
ROTATION 04 / PMO & AGILE GOVERNANCE
Project Management Office (PMO) & QA Training
Completed comprehensive QA foundations training covering the complete STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle).
Actively sat in on Agile ceremonies (daily standups, sprint reviews, planning) and stakeholder requirements meetings.
Understood project governance, milestone tracking, and cross-team dependency management in enterprise IT delivery.
STLC LifecycleAgile Ceremonies Stakeholder RequirementsPMO Governance
Rotation 04 · STLC & Agile Training
ROTATION 05 / ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
Enterprise Architecture & Team Workflows
Learned how different specialized IT teams work together separately while maintaining unified architecture and workflow.
Studied system interoperability, enterprise integration patterns, and architectural boundaries across cloud and on-premise systems.
Observed design reviews for scalable, secure application infrastructure and API topologies.
Enterprise ArchitectureSystem Integration Team WorkflowsAPI Topologies
Rotation 05
ROTATION 06 / DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY & PLATFORM
Digital Technology, Platform & AI Builds
Designed a pop-up component for the Service Desk web page informing customers of the service's purpose and improving navigation.
Understood how digital technology, platforms and AI are built and used in airlines while understanding and helping the end-to-en users in the Service Desk.
Service Desk UIRAG Chatbot Gemini 3.1 FlashFAISS MCP Server
Rotation 06 · Delivered UI & AI Builds
PROJECT 01 / 03 · NLP
Sentiment Analysis - Movie Reviews
Built a binary sentiment classifier using TF-IDF vectorisation and Logistic Regression on a standard movie-review benchmark - IMDB-style dataset.
Iterated on preprocessing pipeline: stopword removal, lemmatisation, min-df tuning on TF-IDF as each step is tracked against its held-out validation accuracy.
Final model validated on a dedicated test split; reported precision, recall, F1, and confusion matrix for both classes in the deliverable report.
PythonNLTK TF-IDFScikit-learn Logistic Regression
85% test accuracy
PROJECT 02 / 03 · ML PIPELINE
Telecom Customer Churn Prediction
End-to-end pipeline on a 7,000-row telecom dataset: EDA, feature engineering, dummy-encoding categorical variables, StandardScaler normalisation, Logistic Regression.
Achieved 88% accuracy on both train and test splits, no overfitting & Verified via confusion matrix and full classification report across churned / retained classes.
Identified the top predictors of churn (contract type, tenure, monthly charges) and documented for business handoff.
PythonPandas Scikit-learnStandardScaler Logistic Regression
88% accuracy · no overfitting
PROJECT 03 / 03 · COMPUTER VISION
Real-Time Face Recognition System
Built using the face_recognition library (dlib ResNet, 128-d face encodings) and OpenCV: multi-person identity detection with configurable distance tolerance.
Integrated Caffe DNN models for live age and gender inference; overlaid confidence scores on each detected face bounding box in real time at target framerates.
Persisted face encodings via pickle serialisation - full add/remove/list interface for the face database across sessions. Every-N-frames inference caching for performance.
PythonOpenCV face_recognitionDlib ResNet Caffe DNN
Multi-person · real-time · persistent DB

Certifications

13 certs across generative AI, parallel computing, cloud, networking, data, and statistics.

✈️
Flydubai Internship
flydubai
Aug 2026
Parallel Programming
Coursera / EPFL
May 2026
🏆
Dubai Customs Hackathon 2026 Participation
University of Dubai
May 2026
🧠
Generative AI Mastermind
Outskill
Apr 2026
🎓
Introduction to Generative AI Learning Path Specialisation (4 courses)
Coursera / Google
Apr 2026
🤖
Artificial Intelligence — STEM Accredited
SmartED Innovations
Jan 2026
🌐
CCNA: Introduction to Networks
Cisco Network Academy
Dec 2025
📜
AI Internship Completion
SmartED Innovations · Skill India
Sep 2025
☁️
Cloud Unlocked — Certificate of Appreciation
AWS Cloud Club, MAHE Dubai
Jul 2025
Google Prompting Essentials Specialisation (4 courses)
Coursera / Google
Jun 2025
🗄️
Database Management Essentials
Coursera / University of Colorado
May 2025
📊
Statistics & Data Analysis with Excel, Parts 1 & 2
Coursera / University of Colorado Boulder
Apr – May 2025
Programming in Java (12-week course)
NPTEL / IIT Kharagpur
Jul – Oct 2024

Education

Current
Manipal Academy of Higher Education - Dubai Campus
B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering
Mar 2025 – Present · Dubai, UAE
Transferred from Manipal University Jaipur
Machine Learning Data Structures & Algorithms Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision Database Management Statistics Operating Systems Computer Networks
Manipal University Jaipur
B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering with Data Science
Aug 2023 – Mar 2025 · India
Pre-University
Vignan's World One School, Visakhapatnam - CBSE 12th: 78.2% (2023)
Birla Public School, Doha - CBSE 10th: 86.5% (2021)

Leadership & Extracurricular

Ran teams, covered events, mentored juniors.

Multimedia Lead — Google Developer Groups (GDG)
Manipal Academy Dubai
Sep 2025 – Jun 2026
Joined as Multimedia Team Member (Sep 2025); promoted to Multimedia Head (Feb 2026). Managed a 4-person team covering all digital content and event media.
↑ Promoted Feb 2026
Photography Team Lead — Technovanza 2025
Manipal Academy Dubai
Nov 2025
Led a 4-person photography team at a 2-day tech fest - planned shot lists, assigned coverage zones, ensured all key moments documented without chasing logistics mid-event.
Media Head — DevForge
Manipal University Jaipur
Nov 2024 – Mar 2025
Ran media coverage for Techspire and TechRelay: pre-event planning through final post-production. Coordinated with committees so the team could shoot and deliver on time.
Team Aperture — Photography Club
Manipal University Jaipur
Dec 2023 – Mar 2025
Promoted from Working Member (Nov 2024). Covered 15+ university events; mentored 10+ junior members and cut post-production turnaround by improving task delegation.
↑ Promoted Nov 2024
Get In Touch

Let's talk
about a role.

Completed rotational IT internship at flydubai and open to future AI/ML opportunities in Dubai. If you're working on something real, like computer vision, NLP, production ML or enterprise systems engineering, I'd like to hear about it. I will respond back as soon as possible.

Open to opportunities.