furkhan.dev.

Mohammed Furkhan Shaikh

Data engineering, backend systems, and internal tools.

I'm a Senior Data Engineer at PG&E. Previously, I worked at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer. I'm based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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01 / Project

Selected project

A public project focused on retrieval and citation verification.

Open sourcePython · FastAPI · LangGraph

Axiom Engine

Axiom Engine is an open-source retrieval-augmented generation service. Generated claims include source quotes, which are checked against retrieved content and assigned a confidence tier.

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Verification
Performs an exact-quote check and, when enabled, a model-based faithfulness check.
Evaluation
Includes SciFact-based evaluation and CI regression checks. The benchmark notes also document cases where BM25 outperformed hybrid retrieval.
Operations
Includes health endpoints, audit trails, Prometheus metrics, and an example Grafana dashboard.

02 / Experience

Recent roles

2023 — Present

PG&E

Senior Data Engineer

PySpark pipelines on operational data, Foundry, and internal React tooling.

2021 — 2023

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

Internal developer tooling, onboarding workflows, and event-driven services on AWS.

03 / Contact

Get in touch

I'm happy to talk about data engineering, backend systems, retrieval-augmented generation, or internal tooling. Short messages are welcome.