Irfan Ali

Irfan Ali is a senior AI engineer with seven years of production experience and the founder of DataCortex IQ. He has fine-tuned LLMs at a Schneider Electric subsidiary, built the AI layer for a Hong Kong startup, shipped a voice-first wellness app, and built inventory software for a Nepal-based FMCG business.

He has published eleven open-source libraries on PyPI and two peer-reviewed papers, and holds a Master's in Data Science and AI from IISER Tirupati. He writes from Siliguri, West Bengal. GitHub: github.com/irfanalidv

He also built StackSift (stacksift.in), an LLM pipeline and API that identifies which software products a B2B company actually sells, with cited evidence; it is one of the case studies in Data Voyage.