Jul 2024 — Present
Lead Data Engineer
DigiLawyer
Founding / early data hire
0k→0k
users supported
data freshness and retrieval quality were core product surfaces
Founding/early data engineer building the ingestion and structuring layer and retrieval stack for a legal research product over Pakistan's statutory and case-law corpus.
- 01Built high-throughput ingestion pipelines for Pakistan's legal corpus — fragmented PDFs and HTML to structured, queryable records, drawing from ~15 sources.
- 02Designed the retrieval layer with full-text + dense-vector search, consolidating a fragmented Turso/Qdrant/MeiliSearch stack onto a PostgreSQL-centric architecture.
- 03Improved section-level statute retrieval for AI systems to ~80% accuracy on internal evaluation queries, where weak document-level FTS had been failing.
- 04Led the data function as the responsible owner for pipelines, documentation, and handoffs across 1 full-time engineer and interns.
Python·PostgreSQL·pgvector·pg_search·MeiliSearch·Qdrant·Airflow·Docker·Kubernetes·AWS EKS/EC2·Linux