Alif Elham Khan

Hi, I'm Alif Elham.

I am a Senior AI Engineer with 9+ years of experience spanning industry and academia. I build production AI systems focused on agentic, multimodal, and explainable AI. My research centers on resource-efficient AI for healthcare, education, and large-scale applications.

I graduated from North South University as the Valedictorian of my graduating class and was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal. I later worked there as a researcher and instructor, supporting research groups in machine learning and quantum computing.

Selected Awards

Valedictorian

North South University

NSU Full-merit Scholarship

North South University

Chancellor's Gold Medal

North South University

Honorable Mention

46th ICPC Asia Dhaka Regional Contest

Academic Mentor

ACM NSU · 2021

Experience

Senior AI Engineer

Nov 2025 – Present

BizScout · Austin, TX, USA (Remote)

  • Owned architecture and system design for BizScout’s AI-native M&A marketplace, evolving its buyer-and-broker assistant into a multi-agent system with persistent context, guarded tools, and Langfuse-based evaluation, supporting a 4× increase in Pro-tier pricing.
  • Led the redesign of search across tens of thousands of business listings, combining structured financial and geographic filters with semantic retrieval and bounded LLM reranking.
  • Built reusable context and personalization layers that turn buyer criteria and prior activity into persistent signals for downstream AI workflows.

AI Engineer

Jun 2024 – Mar 2025

Optimizely · Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Architected and launched OptiGPT, Optimizely’s first enterprise AI copilot, using stateful LLM orchestration and RAG for internal knowledge and support workflows.
  • Built retrieval, feedback, and observability into the platform, then extended the same GenAI foundation across customer, sales, and HR use cases.
  • Helped engineering teams adopt stronger AI/ML deployment practices through workshops and production enablement.

AI Quality Analyst

Jul 2024 – Oct 2025

Invisible Technologies · San Francisco, CA, USA (Remote)

  • Led evaluation quality across a 42-person AI-training team, refining rubrics, calibration, and failure analysis across reasoning, factuality, hallucination, safety, and behavioral alignment.
  • Promoted to AI Quality Analyst within three months after consistently handling high-difficulty evaluation work.

Senior AI Trainer

Apr 2024 – Jul 2024

Invisible Technologies · San Francisco, CA, USA (Remote)

  • Created multi-turn SFT conversations, RLHF preference data, and adversarial evaluations focused on reasoning and persistent behavioral failure modes.

Research Instructor

Apr 2023 – Mar 2024

Mahdy Research Academy · Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Mentored 300+ researchers and supervised 24 applied-research teams across deep learning, computer vision, medical AI, and quantum computing.

Software Engineering Manager

May 2022 – Apr 2023

The Odd Pro · Las Vegas, NV, USA (Remote)

  • Led engineering for a subscription SaaS platform, automating core workflows to cut manual processing 50% and help drive 2× revenue.

Independent Machine Learning Consultant

Jun 2019 – Apr 2022

Fiverr · Remote, Bangladesh

  • Led client discovery through delivery for 40+ ML, cloud, and full-stack systems, translating ambiguous requirements into working software.

Chief Technology Officer

Jan 2016 – Jun 2019

Community Development for Peace · Dhaka, Bangladesh

  • Built and led technology for an early-stage nonprofit as a founding-team member, launching a learning platform used by 10K+ students.