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title: "RafiUllah Gerdewal - Founder & AI Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet RafiUllah Gerdewal, AI Engineer · Founder @ LEIK based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, cursor, and hugging face."
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# RafiUllah Gerdewal on Tal

## Headline

AI Engineer · Founder @ LEIK

## About

I'm an AI Engineer and the Founder of LEIK — an AI\-powered captioning platform for Pashto videos \(leikwal\.com\)\. I build full\-stack products with Next\.js, React, and Python, and I work on AI and language models\. I hold an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Mysore\. Open to remote roles in AI engineering and full\-stack development\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

hugging face

notebooklm

notion

claudecode

## Work experience

Founder & AI Engineer at Freelance, Jul 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Founded LEIK \(leikwal\.com\), an AI\-powered Pashto video captioning platform\. Fine\-tuned OpenAI Whisper for Pashto ASR — one of the lowest\-resource language families — building a custom data pipeline and training workflow from scratch\. Developed the end\-to\-end product: Next\.js \+ React \+ TypeScript frontend, Firebase backend, and real\-time caption rendering\. Platform enables accessible video content in Pashto for the first time at scale\.

RM at NoBroker\.com, Jul 2024 \- Sep 2024 · 3 mos, Bengaluru North, Karnataka, India

Admissions Representative at K12 Techno Services Pvt\. Ltd\., Jan 2024 \- May 2024 · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

IT Consultant at Accenture, Nov 2019 \- May 2020 · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, IT technical consultant

## Education

MSC, CS, University of Mysore

Bachelor's degree, CS, bangalore university

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