I build LLM-powered systems that turn complex business processes into efficient, scalable solutions. With a strong backend background, I design production-grade AI workflows: RAG architectures, prompt engineering, hallucination mitigation, structured outputs and Azure-based integrations that teams actually adopt and rely on.

• 🤖 Currently working as an AI Engineer at Innovation and Digital Development Agency (IDDA)

• 🧠 Focused on RAG systems, LLM integration, prompt engineering and AI automation

• 🚀 Founder of Backlify AI, an AI-assisted backend automation platform

• 💬 Ask me about Python, .NET / C#, Node.js, LLM APIs, LangChain and Azure

• 👨‍💻 Portfolio: arif.babayev.lovable.app

• 📫 Email: arifrb@code.edu.az

• ⚡ Coding is easy, it gets harder as you learn.

AI Engineer · Innovation and Digital Development Agency · 08/2026 – Present

• Mentor tech founders and engineering teams on cloud-native AI deployment, MLOps best practices and cost-effective infrastructure
• Bridge national digital innovation policy with hands-on AI engineering to drive ecosystem-wide AI adoption
• Work with international mentors and venture builders to standardize AI technical benchmarks across the regional startup ecosystem

AI & Automation Engineer · Kontakt · 01/2026 – 08/2026

• Delivered LLM-powered automation across departments, significantly reducing manual work
• Architected and deployed an internal RAG system on Azure (Azure AI Search / pgvector on Azure PostgreSQL)
• Built workflows and campaign/knowledge systems with chain-of-thought and few-shot prompting, guardrails and structured output parsing
• Integrated ERP/corporate systems via APIs and webhooks, Firebase for real-time features, and CSV/Excel data contracts
• Implemented hallucination mitigation, audit logging and monitoring for traceable, production-safe AI outputs

Founder / AI Engineer · Backlify AI · 06/2025 – 01/2026

• Built an AI-powered backend automation platform from scratch with Python, LLM APIs (OpenAI / Llama / Mistral) and LangChain-style orchestration
• Owned the full product lifecycle: ideation, architecture, development, testing and user onboarding

Backend Developer · Yapı Kredi Bank · 07/2023 – 01/2026

• Developed and maintained core banking services, focusing on new features and system reliability
• Integrated external insurance services into internal banking systems
• Supported the implementation and migration of Actimize workflows

Web Developer · Startup · 08/2022 – 12/2024

• Built and scaled web applications with the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js)

• 🥇 IDDA Hackathon, 1st place: data-driven solutions for retail chain optimization based on consumer shopping behavior (post)
• 🥈 Pasha Pay Hackathon, 2nd place: biometric payment solutions for the m10 digital wallet (post)
• 🏅 Junction X Hackathon, 4th place: represented Azerbaijan at Europe's largest hackathon in Finland (post)

AI / LLM

Languages & Frameworks

Databases & Data

Cloud & DevOps

• Bachelor's Degree, Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University · 2022 – 2026
• Software Developer Bootcamp, Code Academy Azerbaijan · 03/2022 – 08/2022

🌐 Languages: Azerbaijani, Turkish, English, Russian