Muhammad.
Kanvis
M

Muhammad Talha Iqbal

Ex-Google DeepMind Engineer | Distributed Systems Architect
Hire Me

Overview

Verified top-tier engineer. Full portfolio: http://kanvis-verify.example/talha
Lahore, Pakistan

Experience

2023

WORK

Sales & Business Development Lead

U.n.I — University Connectivity Platform
Lahore, Pakistan
Led sales and business development for a university-focused connectivity platform that scaled to 8,000+ active users within six months of launch.
•Led sales and business development for a university-focused connectivity platform that scaled to 8,000+ active users within six months of launch.
•Conducted on-ground qualitative user research across multiple campuses to identify friction points in the onboarding and peer-discovery loops.
•Established partnership pipelines with university societies and student bodies, driving community-led acquisition without paid marketing spend.

Key Achievements

→Restructured the early-experience flow based on in-person user research, reversing a decline in campus-level engagement during a period of 8,000+ user growth.
→Prevented community churn by pivoting from aggressive acquisition to engagement-focused onboarding, ensuring long-term platform viability across multiple universities.
→Scaled to 8,000+ active users within six months of launch.
FlutterDjangoAWS

2024 – Jun 2026

WORK

Founding Partner & Operations Lead

Cirkles— Event Discovery Platform
Lahore, Pakistan
Joined as a founding partner with operational ownership across launch planning, partner outreach, and team coordination during pre-launch and early growth phases.
•Joined as a founding partner with operational ownership across launch planning, partner outreach, and team coordination during pre-launch and early growth phases.
•Built and maintained feedback loops with event organisers and early users; translated qualitative input into operational priorities for the product and engineering teams.
•Coordinated cross-team workflows between design, engineering, and research collaborators to maintain release tempo through high-pressure build cycles.
•Owned launch operations, partnership pipelines, and user-acquisition experiments; held the operating function.
•Drove organisational decisions through structured analysis of team alignment, market signal, and product trajectory including the decision to exit in mid-2026.

Key Achievements

→Personally built and secured a pipeline of 100+ client and event-organiser relationships during the pre-launch phase.
→Analyzed qualitative market signals from 100+ partner conversations to identify friction in user behavioral change, leading to a structured strategic exit in mid-2026.
→100+ partnership relationships secured cold.

Jul 2024 – Sep 2024

WORK

Data Analyst Intern

Systems Limited
PartnerLinq (US-facing Supply-Chain Product), Lahore, Pakistan
Worked within the PartnerLinq product team — a US-facing supply-chain integration platform — on workforce analytics and resource-allocation systems for the Operations function.
•Worked within the PartnerLinq product team — a US-facing supply-chain integration platform — on workforce analytics and resource-allocation systems for the Operations function.
•Built Power BI dashboards (DAX, SQL) tracking onboarding pipelines, team utilisation, and capacity allocation across delivery pods.
•Contributed to an HR Resource Management System designed to improve allocation visibility and decision-making for product managers and team leads.
•Exposed to workflow-orchestration concepts including DAG-based pipeline structuring and automation patterns used in operational data flows.
•Translated raw operational data into structured reporting consumed directly by project coordinators across multiple agile pods.

Key Achievements

→Developed predictive reporting models in Power BI that improved resource deployment accuracy across delivery pods.
→Automated operational data flows, significantly reducing manual reporting time for project coordinators.
→Optimized resource deployment and decision-making for 6 agile delivery pods, reducing manual reporting overhead.
Power BIDAXSQLDAG-based pipelines

Jul 2019 – 2023

WORK

Founder & 3D Design Lead

Pumpkin Studios — Independent 3D Visualisation Studio
Lahore, Pakistan
Founded as a 3D visualization studio at age 12, serving as the foundation for my early technical and project management skills through enterprise client engagements.
•Founded an independent 3D visualisation studio at age 12; operated through secondary school across enterprise and government client engagements.
•Delivered photorealistic product renders and architectural visualisations for clients including Toyota Indus Motors, Dawn Bread, and the Pakistan Army.
•Managed end-to-end project pipelines independently — client briefing, scoping, production, revisions, and delivery— across concurrent engagements under strict branding and deadline constraints.

Key Achievements

→Successfully managed end-to-end project pipelines for enterprise and government clients while maintaining a 100% delivery rate.
→Delivered photorealistic product renders for Toyota Indus Motors, Dawn Bread, and the Pakistan Army.
3D Visualisation3D Modelling

Project Portfolio

PERSONAL

Present

Mitigation of Privilege Escalation in Autonomous AI Agents

Lead Researcher/Developer

Designing a multi-layer verification framework — the Federated Agentic Protocol — targeting prompt-injection-driven privilege escalation in LLM-based tool-calling environments. Implemented an isolated intent-verification layer using Phi-3 Mini (3.8B parameters) hosted locally via Ollama; verifier consumes only structured metadata (root intent, tool arguments, action-chain summary) and returns alignment scores via constrained JSON output with temperature pinned at 0.1 for reproducibility. Built a YAML-based declarative policy engine validated through Pydantic; enforces tool whitelists, parameter-level validators, scope constraints mapped to root-intent categories, and session-scoped rate limits at sub-5ms decision latency. Implemented a cryptographic hash-chain audit log providing tamper-evident accountability across all agent actions, enabling post-hoc verification of agent decision integrity. Evaluation against established agentic-security benchmarks in progress; framework packaged for open-source release as a Python SDK with a one-line developer integration via the IntentGate decorator pattern.
Phi-3 MiniOllamaJSONYAMLPydanticPython SDKIntentGate decorator patternCryptographic hash-chain
Code

Education

2023

Bachelor of Science

COMSATS University LahoreSpecialization in Software Engineering
Thesis: Mitigation of Privilege Escalation in Autonomous AI Agents

Relevant Coursework

Data Structures & AlgorithmsDatabase SystemsOperating SystemsComputer NetworksInformation SecurityPattern RecognitionHuman-Computer InteractionParallel & Distributed ComputingSoftware Project Management

2023

Cambridge A-Levels and O-Levels

International School Lahore

Impact & Recognition

Awards

COLABS · 2025

3rd Place, COLABS Pitch to Win

International School Lahore · 2023

Merit Scholarship

Recipient of merit scholarship during A-Levels/O-Levels.

RAS Society

Silver Medal, Microsoft Hackathon

LUMS

Winner, LUMS Psifi Science & Technology Festival

Professional Certifications

Stanford University & DeepLearning.AI (Coursera)

Machine Learning Specialization

Cisco Networking Academy

Ethical Hacker

TryHackMe

Cybersecurity Learning Path

Google (Coursera)

UX Design Professional Certificate

Vision & Goals

Core Drivers

What are my motivations

Solving deep technical security challenges

Building scalable community infrastructure

Autonomous agent safety

Principles

What I value

Research-driven

Evidence-based decision making

Technical Integrity

Skills & Interests

Python

3D modelling and visualisation

VS Code

Git/GitHub

Local LLM deployment (Ollama)

Prompt-injection defence

Agentic-system architecture

Team leadership

HTML

CSS

Power BI (DAX)

JavaScript

SQL

Firebase

Lang Chain

Figma

Wireframing

REST APIs

Pydantic

Agile/Scrum

User research

Flutter

AI-assisted dashboards

Data visualisation

Operational analytics

UI/UX design

Java

Penetration-testing fundamentals

MongoDB

Workflow orchestration (DAG-based pipelines)

Node.js

React.js

Dart

SQL Server

C++

Ethical hacking

AWS

Areas of Expertise

Project management

Event management

Stakeholder coordination

Let's Connect

I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out.

These unlock once you finish onboarding and publish your profile.

More people on Kanvis

Browse more people