# Junaid Shaukat, AI Engineer

> Muhammad Junaid Shaukat is an engineer and builder. He makes AI products and developer tools end-to-end, contributes to major open-source projects, and organises developer community events.

## About

Muhammad Junaid Shaukat (also known as Junaid Shaukat) is a full-stack and AI engineer specializing in backend systems, LLM tooling, AI engineering, and infrastructure. He is an active open-source contributor with 85+ merged pull requests across Apache Beam, InsForge, Archestra AI, Apache Airflow, webpack, Gemini CLI and more, plus patches to the Linux kernel.

## Products shipped

- blyn: AI money coach for iOS. Local-first budget and expense tracker with an AI coach. Financial data stays on device. Live on the App Store. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blyn-ai-money-coach/id6799817602
- Divisio: local-first desktop workspace for coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok) with parallel git worktrees and a review pane. Open source, MIT.
- isDisposable: disposable email detection API, 160,000+ domains, DNS fingerprinting, risk scoring. npm and PyPI packages. https://isdisposable.com
- Storage Sweep: native macOS storage cleaner for developer caches.
- reqcraft: 3kb zero-dependency HTTP client on native fetch, axios-compatible API.
- revise-deps: Node.js dependency and security auditing CLI.
- QueryMaster: MCP server for natural-language SQL querying.

## Community & events

- Qwen Ambassador: founder of Qwen Pakistan (2026 to present). Started the chapter from zero; 3,000+ LinkedIn followers and 250K+ impressions in the first week. Organised the Qwen Pakistan AI Buildathon 2026.
- RevenueCat Shipaton IRL, Pakistan (August 2026): organised the first RevenueCat Shipaton in-person event ever held in Pakistan. Cold-emailed RevenueCat for approval, sourced the venue, ran promotion. 43 registered, ~30 attended.
- Notion Campus Club: Campus Leader for one year. Workshops and templates.
- Dev Weekends: mentor and community organiser. Fellowships and mentorship programmes for developers early in their careers, plus a weekly cohort of ~40 working through open source and AI engineering.

## Awards & recognition

- Winner: Cognee AI PR hackathon
- 2nd place: InsForge open-source PR hackathon. Invited to continue as an ongoing contributor (12 PRs merged)
- Google Summer of Code 2026: completed with the Apache Software Foundation
- Meta Hacker Cup 2024: Top 100 in Pakistan
- Linux Foundation LFD103: Kernel Development certified

## Skills & Technologies

- Languages: C/C++, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Bash, SQL
- Backend: Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS, Docker
- Frontend: React, Next.js
- Systems: Linux, GDB, Valgrind, QEMU, Git
- AI: LLM integrations, AI tooling, Archestra AI
- Design: interface and layout design, typography, building visual taste as a deliberate practice

## Experience

- Release Signal Shadow, Kubernetes Release Team (2026, ended August 2026): tracked CI signal, flaky tests, and release-blocking issues across SIGs for the v1.37 cycle. Volunteer, upstream.
- Google Summer of Code 2026 Contributor at Apache Software Foundation (Apache Beam), May to Aug 2026, Remote: Building a portable Kafka Streams runner for Beam: pipeline protos to topologies, Fn API for multi-SDK support, exactly-once via Kafka transactions. [Project](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/projects/x13a0jGL)
- AI Reasoning Engineer at Turing (Jul to Dec 2025, Remote): Designed mathematical and algorithmic challenges to train large language models. Developed production-grade C/C++ solutions.
- Freelance Software Developer (2024 to 2025, Remote): Built scalable backend systems using Node.js, Express, Python, PostgreSQL. Deployed on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS).

## Open Source Contributions

### Apache Beam (41 merged PRs)
- Wrote the portable Kafka Streams runner as a Google Summer of Code 2026 contributor; published to nightly snapshots
- Added LRU cache eviction to CombinePerKeyPrecombineOperator (#37466)
- Added filter() method to PCollection in TypeScript SDK (#37408)
- Implemented LRU cache eviction for CachingStateProvider (#37214)
- Made TypeScript test reporter optional (#37182)

### Apache Airflow (3 merged PRs)
- Fixed user creation bug in FAB Auth Manager (#60015)
- Hid Groups field from User edit form (#60019)
- Added E2E tests for Asset Details UI (#59939)

### Archestra AI (6 merged PRs)
- Added DeepSeek LLM provider support (#2930)
- Added Perplexity AI LLM provider support (#2467)
- Added Mistral AI LLM provider support (#2250)
- Added Cerebras LLM provider support (#1862)

### Talawa Admin / PalisadoesFoundation (6 merged PRs)
- Refactored codebase, built i18n components, enabled tree-shaking. reduced bundle size by 30%

### Linux Kernel
- Built and booted mainline kernel on ARM64, submitted patches via git format-patch and send-email

## Education

- University of Education. BS Computer Science (2023 to 2027)
- Meta Hacker Cup 2024. Top 100 in Pakistan
- ICPC Asia Topi. Preliminary Round
- Linux Foundation LFD103. Kernel Development certified

## Contact

- Email: junaidshaukat546@gmail.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/junaiddshaukat
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/junaiddshaukat
- Website: https://junaidshaukat.com

## DevRel

Muhammad Junaid Shaukat's developer relations portfolio page. Includes proof of work with InsForge (YC W24), content creation (78K YouTube views, 283 videos), and open source contributions. 23% of docs traffic is AI agents. 18.4K agent views out of 79K total.

- Page: https://junaidshaukat.com/devrel
- Agent-readable markdown: https://junaidshaukat.com/devrel.md