Aatif Usmani

- Markham, Ontario, Canada - aatifu101@gmail.com I am an AI Operations Developer at Tasteport, a VC-backed company. I am one of the first 10 early members, focusing on training AI foundational models.

Aatif Usmani
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My Projects

AI Chatbot using RAG Architecture

Integrated into this website! (bottom right) Tech stack includes Langchain, Pinecone, OpenAI, FastAPI, and Appwrite. Deployed with AWS Lambda and S3

RAG

AI Chatbot using RAG Architecture

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Next.js Portfolio Website

Built with React, JavaScript, TailwindCSS, Git and TypeScript. Deployed with AWS Amplify

Web Development

Next.js Portfolio Website

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DistilBERT Grocery Grouping Model

Google Colab Notebook using dataset from Kaggle(1800 items). Huggingface-transformers, matplotlib, PyTorch(AdamW optimization), sklearn, pandas.

Deep Learning, NLP

DistilBERT Grocery Grouping Model

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Binary Classification model for grouping rice grains

Developed on Google Colab using scikit-learn and tensorflow. Data preprocessing, data mining, data visualization and Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) performed using matplotlib and pandas. (More of a walkthrough I went through and did on my own)

Machine Learning

Binary Classification model for grouping rice grains

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Gym progress + social media app(in progress)

Fitness social media application. Users can post gym workouts, track progress, and share fitness-related content. React Native, Expo, Appwrite, Git and TailwindCSS.

App Development

Gym progress + social media app(in progress)

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Brain Tumor Detection CNN (in progress)

Being Developed on Google Colab using scikit-learn and PyTorch. Data preprocessing, data mining, data visualization and Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) performed using matplotlib and pandas.

Deep Learning, Image Detection

Brain Tumor Detection CNN (in progress)

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My Journey

2020

Joined Tasteport

Started position at Tasteport focusing on E-Commerce.

Worked with E-Commerce catalog information at grocery store clients. This includes scanning products and organizing database information. Collaborated with ECom Marketing professionals to shoot images, manage SKUs, and organize different product groups. Handled price synchronization and special product categorization.

2021

Business Operations

Handling day to day operations.

Managed live B2B relations with million-dollar business owners and managers. Handled onboarding for inventory tools and operations fulfillment using Java-based tools at grocer client sites. Responsibilities included B2B operations communications with managers, fleet, and fulfillment staff.

2022

Started University at Wilfrid Laurier

Business degree but switched into life sciences in 2023.

Transferred to York University in 2024, now in the BSc. Biochemistry program with plans of pursuing bioinformatics with a focus on genetics

2023

Data Science

Started taking data science courses and working on projects.

Python - Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, sklearn R - tidyverse

2024

Creating AI Models

Working on AI models for grocery product grouping.

Trained and fine-tuned foundational AI model for thousands of SKUs for grocery product grouping. Saves tens-hundreds of hours of manual grouping. Assisted in developing knowledge base databases for RAG applications. Systems include AI-powered CX, CRM, chat, and SEO capabilities.

2025

Certification

Generative AI and LLMs NVIDIA certification

Focused on increasing my knowledge and application skills in AI and machine learning. I am also working on more personal projects on kaggle to solidify my understanding of these concepts.

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