Hey, I'm Talha Zulfiqar 👋

ALGO ALLIANCE • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• •Launched a Web3 platform (NFT marketplace, staking, launchpad, social features), reaching 8,300+ monthly active users with 18% month-1 retention
• •Built a real-time AMA (Socket.io) handling 12,000+ concurrent viewers with p95 latency < 280 ms, lifting live session retention +22%
• •Optimized key API endpoints (indexes, caching) to cut average response time by 35% and reduce error rate by 42%.
• •Implemented image/CDN strategy and code-splitting that reduced critical Next.js page load by 27%.
• •Introduced structured logging and alerting, bringing incident MTTR down to 45 minutes for high-traffic paths.

ALGO ALLIANCE • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• •Built Cypress E2E and Postman API suites (~230 flows), raising pre-merge coverage to 82% and reducing escaped defects by 38% QoQ.
• •Integrated tests into GitHub Actions with parallelization/caching, cutting CI build-and-verify time by 41%.
• •Performed security testing with OWASP ZAP and Burp Suite, remediated 17 high/medium issues pre-release.
• •Executed cross-browser/device checks on BrowserStack: validated 15 priority user journeys across 8 browsers/devices.

University of Suffolk • Ipswich, United Kingdom

• •Built a 24/7 agent for student FAQs and document workflows, achieved 86% answer accuracy on an internal test set with 2.9s median response.
• •Implemented retrieval-augmented generation over 1,200 knowledge items in Pinecone, and reduced manual email queue volume by 40% for common requests.
• •Added guardrails, prompt evaluation, and telemetry to keep hallucination rate < 4%, shipped an admin feedback loop for continuous improvement.

Centher.io

A blockchain-based NFT marketplace, token launchpad, and social media platform.

• •Built and maintained full-stack features across the NFT marketplace, token launchpad, and social platform, ensuring performance, scalability, and clean UX.
• •Developed core social functionality including user profiles, posts, threaded discussions, and rich-text content creation to drive engagement and retention.
• •Integrated blockchain/smart-contract workflows into the app to enable decentralized interactions, secure transactions, and seamless on-chain/off-chain sync.

AI Student Support Agent

A production-ready GenAI student assistant built to simplify onboarding, queries, and support for university students.

• •Built a 24/7 agent for student FAQs and document workflows, achieved 86% answer accuracy on an internal test set with 2.9s median response.
• •Implemented retrieval-augmented generation over 1,200 knowledge items in Pinecone, and reduced manual email queue volume by 40% for common requests.
• •Added guardrails, prompt evaluation, and telemetry to keep hallucination rate < 4%, shipped an admin feedback loop for continuous improvement.

UK Setup Guide

UK Setup Guide is a web platform that helps newcomers to the UK (students, skilled workers, and immigrants) get settled faster with a personalised step-by-step setup plan, document templates, and scam protection tools — all in one place.

• •Built a personalised onboarding roadmap that guides users through housing, banking, NHS/GP registration, and other essentials in the correct order.
• •Developed a Scam Shield to detect common rental/job fraud patterns and recommend safe next steps.
• •Added a document & template generator (with optional secure storage) to help users prepare and share the right paperwork quickly.