AI/ML Engineering Consultant
Outcome-focused AI consulting
We build AI/ML powered systems that solve real-world problems.
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About
I'm Sameer Zaheer, an AI/ML engineering leader with 12+ years of experience, currently consulting independently as AutomateThis. I am currently the CTO of Actuality.live, where I have productionized the app from a prototype to a platform for 200+ daily users, with >99%+ uptime. Our work was got the company into the Google for Startups Accelerator. Before that, I led the wakeuphrase team at SoundHound optimizing edge inference, and worked as a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir building directly on the Foundry platform. I hold 4 patents.
I now take on production AI/ML projects end-to-end to achieve robust outcomes.
The Team
Alongside me, AutomateThis's team has hands-on experience across AI agents, full-stack application development, computer vision, and production ML. We also partner with other consulting firms.
Case Studies
US pharmacy & clinic services provider
Physician Notes & Medical Forms Document Extraction
Replaced a department's manual workload
- OCR
- Browser automation
- LLM extraction
- Confidence-threshold routing
- Human-in-the-loop review
Canadian hospital research group
Video Anonymizer for Hospital Research
Unblocked research stalled on ethics approval
- Generative Adversarial Networks
- Computer Vision
- Model training
- Model hosting
- Video processing
Nidral — dangerous-goods regulatory compliance
DG Compliance RAG & Verification
Automated DG firm's customer response system
- RAG
- LLM-as-judge
- Retrieval
- LLM hallucination
Palantir Foundry Work
Time as a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir, building directly on the Foundry platform — a specialization within the broader consulting work above.
Power generator
Built on Palantir FoundryGeospatial Wind-Siting ML System
Site screening cut from ~1 month to ~1 hour
- PySpark
- Random Forest
- Spatial cross-validation
- NREL & meteorological data
- LLM rationale generation
Petroleum midstream provider
Built on Palantir FoundryPipeline-Scheduling Optimization
~3x cut in human time, ~2x energy savings
- Digital Twin
- Physics simulation
- State estimation
- OR-Tools
- Optimization
Automotive manufacturer
Built on Palantir FoundryBlueprint Computer Vision Pipeline
~20,000 blueprints processed for part interchangeability
- Computer Vision
- OCR
- Python
- Palantir Foundry
Large medical equipment provider
Built on Palantir FoundryPredictive Maintenance for Autoclave Equipment
Flagged machines nearing failure before breakdown
- Deep Learning
- Time-Series Modeling
- Predictive Maintenance
- Physical AI
Patents
US 10102633
Granted2018-10-16
System and Methods of Segmenting Vessels from Medical Imaging Data
Medical imaging segmentation work.
US 20210050003
Published2021-02-18
Custom Wake Phrase Training
Filed while leading the ML team at SoundHound.
US 12051403
Granted2024-07-30
Server-Supported Recognition of Wake Phrases
Filed while leading the ML team at SoundHound.
US 12625901
Granted2026-05-12
Machine Learning and Language Model-Assisted Geospatial Data Analysis and Visualization
From the wind-siting system built as a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir.
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