About me

I'm Shariq Riaz. For over a decade, I worked as a Business Analyst at Fortune 500 companies in healthcare and defense. I led implementations across 130+ countries, managed programs processing Medicare risk adjustments, and carried a 98% client satisfaction rate across 50+ projects.

The pattern I kept seeing was the same everywhere: smart people spending hours on work that software should handle. A nurse manually checking insurance eligibility for every patient. A financial analyst copying numbers between four spreadsheets. A sales team losing leads because nobody responded within the first hour.

I made the move to AI engineering because the tools finally caught up to the problems I'd been documenting for years. In under a year, I built 164+ GitHub repositories, earned 200+ stars, and shipped production systems that real developers use daily. The BA background isn't a footnote. It's the reason my automations work. I don't just know how to connect APIs. I know which processes are worth automating and which ones aren't.