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Shikha SinghSS

Shikha Singh

AI Infra / MLOps Engineer

$400/day
Dubai City, AE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Shikha

🚀 Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer | Dubai | UAE Resident Visa & Freelancer Permit

✨ Experienced AI platform engineer applying MLOPs/DevOps practices to deliver Highly available, robust & Secure Cloud AI applications.

✨ Familiarity deploying AI-based SAAS products with thorough understanding of their Cloud infrastructure.

✨ AI adoption :
  • Adept at using OpenAPI , Claude API to create Gen-AI applications and automation frameworks
  • Hands-on experience with Prompt engineering, Vector embeddings, Generative AI , Agentic AI, LLMOPs, AIOs.

✨ Automation :
  • Configuration Automation: Utilising Chef for efficient & automated config management.
  • Python scripting, RAG LLM Validation, Performance/Load testing (using Blazemeter), Robot framework.

✨ CI/CD Expertise: Hands-On expertise in Jenkins/Github Actions for automating Builds, deployments, static/vulnerability scanning.

✨ Infrastructure as Code: Cloud-infra provisioning with AWS CloudFormation & Terraform. Scripting: Advanced skills in Python, Shell, Groovy, and Ruby.

✨ Operational Skills:
  • GITOps : For managing Application configurations
  • Cost Optimisation: Strategically reducing cloud expenses in AWS through automated processes.
  • Observability: Monitoring and analysis through Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus and Grafana.

🔐 Security and Compliance:
Expertise in IAM, 2FA, SSL, and certificate lifecycle management,SAST, SCA, DAST to ensure robust security protocols, OAuth, JW, and SAML-based security models.

💸 FinTech Experience : GE Finance, Norde Finance bank, Mastercard, Tether
🌐 Web3 Experience : Tether, Zoop
📝 Explore My Blog on Medium: 😸 Checkout my GitHub repo-
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual

  • Arabic

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Dubai City (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Zoop
    AI Platform engineer
    TECH
    September 2025 - Today (9 months)
    Dubai - United Arab Emirates
    • MLOps — Model Serving with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server
    Built an end-to-end MLOps pipeline for Zoop to deploy ONNX and PyTorch
    models on NVIDIA Triton Inference Server (Docker, REST/gRPC), with
    Prometheus + Grafana monitoring of latency and throughput. Improved
    throughput ~1.8x via async requests and dynamic batching, and scaled
    to GPU inference on an Azure NC-series VM.

    • **Created infrastructure for AI Recommendation system-
    ** Created infra for AI recommendation service to show users relevant top 10 reels/post to user on their home feed in Zoop Web3 social media app.

    Also created infra for vector embedding storage, indexing etc.
    • Build an end-to-end AI medical chatbot-
    Used Hugging Face LLMs and embeddings, a FAISS vector store, PDF
    data source, Flask frontend, and a dockerized CI/CD pipelines on AWS.
    MLOps Microsoft Azure Terraform Kubernetes Docker
  • Tether
    AI Devops engineer - Freelance
    TECH
    November 2025 - May 2026 (6 months)
    Dubai - United Arab Emirates
    • Worked Tether AI SDK health project called QVAC- * Created and managed 140+ Github actions CI workflows for deploying AI applications on Cloud.
    • Created n8n setup for automated provisioning of GPU VMs on GCP servers.
    • Supported opensourcing initiative of QVAC projects and mitigate all issues resulting from private to public Github repo.
    GitHub n8n MCP Google cloud Microsoft Azure
  • Ayraa
    Principal DevOps engineer
    TECH
    July 2023 - Today (2 years and 11 months)
    Dubai - United Arab Emirates
    • Worked as an MLOPs engineer for Ayraa, AI Workplace Search and query RAG-based App Developed and maintained in Kubernetes environments.
    • Wrote business logic and automation using with Claude, OpenAI SDKs.
    • Worked on prompt engineering, prompt storage/retrieval for Knowledge search purposes.
    Python Amazon Web Services Amazon RDS Pulumi Kubernetes

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Education

  • Solutions Architect
    Solutions Architect
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
    The Linux Foundation
    Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

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