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Ozair Khan
Public Dossier // Pillar D

Credentials, Track Record & Evidence Hub

An authoritative, living record of academic research, enterprise architectural achievements, and technical contributions. Curated to serve technical hiring committees, conference boards, and legal adjudicators for US O-1A (Extraordinary Ability) and UK Global Talent Visa (Tech Nation).

01 // Academic Credentials & Formal Research

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

Master of Computer Science (MCS)

Grainger College of Engineering • In Progress

Advanced graduate study specializing in distributed data systems, text retrieval, and applied machine learning:

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    CS 410: Text Information Systems (Text Retrieval): Inverted indices, vector space models, Okapi BM25 ranking, language modeling for IR, topic categorization, and hybrid search pipelines.
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    CS 441: Applied Machine Learning: Supervised classification, dimensionality reduction (PCA), deep learning fundamentals, clustering, and evaluating model generalization on real-world datasets.
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    Data Cleaning & Transformation: Entity resolution, schema reconciliation, missing value imputation, and automated data quality validation.

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

Graduated

Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering

Rigorous quantitative foundation in signals & systems, digital signal processing, algorithm design, and probability theory.

02 // Advanced AI & Agentic Specializations

Ed Donner • AI Engineering

AI Engineer Core Track

LLM Engineering, Advanced RAG architectures, Fine-tuning with QLoRA, and Autonomous Multi-Agent systems design.

Ed Donner • Agentic Systems

The Complete Agent & MCP Course

Deep dive into Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), building custom tools/resources, SSE & stdio transports, and multi-agent coordination.

03 // Technical Radar & Production Competencies

Production Mastery (Enterprise Scale)

Proven in multi-terabyte production data warehouses and zero-downtime cutover migrations.

Google BigQuery Apache Spark / PySpark Apache Airflow / Cloud Composer Oracle Exadata Apache NiFi Databricks PostgreSQL dbt / Dataform Cloud Storage & GCS Distributed SQL Optimization Docker & Containerization CI/CD Data Pipelines Data Governance & IAM

Applied AI & Modern Data Stack

Modern in-memory compute, vector retrieval, and agentic integrations for next-gen data systems.

Python (Advanced) Model Context Protocol (MCP) DuckDB (In-Memory OLAP) Polars (Arrow Columnar) FastAPI Information Retrieval (BM25) Hybrid Search (RRF) Vector DBs (Qdrant) Cross-Encoder Re-Ranking RAG Systems Engineering Local LLM Workflows (Ollama) Pydantic Output Validation

04 // Speaking, Community & Leadership

Communication & Leadership

Toastmasters International

Active member practicing executive presentation, technical storytelling, and impromptu leadership.

Active
Technical Education & Outreach

YouTube Technical Walkthroughs & Code Breakdowns

Publishing open-source code explanations on data pipeline architectures, DuckDB/Polars automations, and MCP implementations.

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