The University of Texas at Austin
B.S. Biology (Computational)
- genomics algorithms
- biostatistics
- data structures
- python
// sequences before schemas: where the data habit started.
Data Engineer · SNH AI · Austin, TX
Mohammed-Taqi Jalil. Data engineer, prototype to production.
I helped take an AI-powered records-adjudication platform from early prototype to production with live enterprise customers. I own the service that turns messy multi-vendor court XML into the structured data behind every automated compliance decision.
01 / the pipeline
What I own, end to end.
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stage 01 · ingest
Raw court-record XML, from many vendors.
Every vendor sends records in its own shape. That mess is the input to everything downstream.
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stage 02 · parse
One Python/FastAPI service turns it into structure.
I own the transformation service that converts heterogeneous vendor XML into the structured features the platform runs on.
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stage 03 · validate
Schemas and tests keep bad data out.
XSD schemas enforce consistency on incoming XML; pytest coverage guards parsing, enrichment, and decision logic.
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stage 04 · enrich
Bronze, silver, gold, in BigQuery.
When production breaks, I trace records through the medallion pipeline to the root cause: parser failures, ID-mapping bugs.
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stage 05 · decide
Automated compliance decisions.
Jurisdiction-specific logic (offense age, dispositions, court exclusions) expands the share of records adjudicated without manual review.
100+
merged pull requests across parsing, enrichment, validation & decision logic
7mo
from intern to owner of the platform's core transformation service
15%
increase in platform adoption from student data analysis at JSoftUSA
30%
less manual reporting time after automating SQL ETL workflows
02 / refinement layers
Raw to gold.
A career read like a medallion pipeline: every layer cleaner, more trusted, and closer to the decision than the last.
Data Analyst Intern
JSoftUSA · Austin, TX
- Analyzed student attendance and performance data, uncovering trends that led to a 15% increase in platform adoption.
- Automated ETL workflows using SQL scripts, decreasing manual report time by 30%.
- Built Tableau dashboards to track performance and resource use, improving educator efficiency.
- sql
- tableau
- etl
Data Engineer Intern
SNH AI · Austin, TX
- Built data labeling workflows in Label Studio for annotating charges, dispositions, and record sources used to train and evaluate the platform's AI models.
- Developed Python pipelines standardizing heterogeneous vendor XML into a unified golden dataset for model training and evaluation.
- Created and validated XSD schemas to enforce consistency of incoming XML across diverse data sources.
- Converted to full-time after the internship, taking ownership of the platform's core transformation service. // Intern to owner of the core service in seven months.
- python
- xml
- xsd
- label studio
Data Engineer
SNH AI · Austin, TX
- Own the Python/FastAPI service that transforms raw court-record XML from multiple vendors into the structured features driving automated compliance decisions.
- Helped take the product from prototype to production launch, supporting multi-week client UAT and shipping 100+ merged pull requests across parsing, enrichment, validation, and decision logic. // Merged, not just opened.
- Implemented jurisdiction-specific decision logic (offense age, dispositions, court exclusions) with pytest coverage, expanding the share of records adjudicated without manual review.
- Diagnosed production incidents by tracing records through a BigQuery bronze/silver/gold pipeline, fixing parser failures and ID-mapping bugs. // Root cause first, patch second.
- Built internal React dashboard features (record search, labeling, live rule evaluation) used daily by engineers and auditors.
- python
- fastapi
- bigquery
- gcp
- pytest
- react
03 / side builds
Things I built for fun.
01 financial analytics
IntelliVest Investment Analytics Platform
Investment analytics platform with real-time market data, portfolio optimization, and interactive dashboards for informed decision-making.
- python
- streamlit
- plotly
02 machine learning
Ambient Air Pollution Prediction
Machine learning models (Random Forest, XGBoost, k-NN, Lasso) predicting PM2.5 concentrations across the U.S., with EDA, feature selection, and cross-validation.
- python
- scikit-learn
03 bioinformatics
RNA-Seq Gene Expression Analysis
Differential gene expression analysis with DESeq2, visualized through PCA, volcano plots, and heatmaps.
- r
- bioconductor
·· / stack
The toolkit.
Languages & Frameworks
Python (FastAPI, Pandas, pytest), SQL (BigQuery, MySQL), TypeScript/React, XML/XSD, REST APIs
Cloud & Data
Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub), ETL / medallion architecture (bronze-silver-gold), data validation, Docker, Git/GitHub, Label Studio, Tableau
·· / field notes
Off the clock.
Where I write code, read systems papers, and recharge across Austin, and the bench it all happens on.
Downtown & North Lamar
- order
- Double Cortado (Washed Ethiopian)
- beans
- Pattern Coffee Roasters
My quintessential engineering focus spot. Architectural, restrained interior, ultra-consistent extraction. The cortado has silky micro-foam with bright citrus and floral notes.
East Austin (Webberville Rd)
- order
- Espresso Tonic / Classic Flat White
- beans
- Rotating guest roasters (Sweet Bloom, Ritual)
An eclectic former gas-station outpost on the East Side. Best experimental coffee program in town. The espresso tonic on a humid 95°F Texas summer afternoon is unbeatable.
East Caesar Chavez
- order
- House Drip or Colombian Pour Over
- beans
- In-house roast
Coffee roastery meets custom vintage motorcycle garage. Grittier, high-energy community vibe. Rich chocolate, caramel, and tobacco roast profiles that fuel sprint weeks.
East 5th St
- order
- Single-Origin Pour Over
- beans
- Greater Goods micro-lots
Airy industrial space with lush greenery. Fantastic for long weekend reading sessions and testing bioinformatics or Python ideas.
The bench
- keyboard
- Custom 75% mechanical, lubed & filmed
- Boba U4T tactiles / Gateron Oil King
- coffee
- Hario V60 ceramic + Timemore C2
- washed Ethiopian, 1:16
- audio
- Sennheiser HD 6XX + DAC/amp
- deep work soundtrack
- editor
- VS Code / Neovim
- Tokyo Night Storm
04 / query this site
Ask me anything.
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