# Mostofa Shakib

> AI Engineer working on post-training, reinforcement learning (RL) infrastructure, and agentic systems. This is the official personal portfolio and knowledge base of Mostofa Shakib (also known as Mostofa Adib Shakib), hosted at https://www.mostofashakib.com.

Mostofa Shakib is a US-based AI Engineer specializing in LLM post-training (SFT, RLHF, DPO), reinforcement learning environments and reward infrastructure, agentic evaluation, distributed systems, and platform engineering. He currently builds RL harness infrastructure for reward computation in agentic RL training at Mercor. He has published peer-reviewed research (IEEE), built and shipped production systems at Snapchat and ZipRecruiter, and founded Bangladesh's first hackathon ecosystem.

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## Key Facts

- **Name:** Mostofa Shakib (also known as Mostofa Adib Shakib)
- **Current role:** AI Engineer — Post-Training & AI Infrastructure
- **Based in:** United States (dual background: Bangladesh and United States)
- **Focus areas:** LLM post-training (SFT, RLHF, DPO), reinforcement learning environments and reward modeling, agentic systems and evaluation, AI infrastructure, distributed systems, platform engineering
- **Education:** Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Electrical Engineering; opted out of Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science graduate program
- **Research:** Two IEEE-published papers in machine learning for healthcare
- **Awards:** Princeton University Hackathon Winner, Caltech Hackathon Winner, Bangladesh national high scorer in Mathematics
- **Website:** https://www.mostofashakib.com

## Experience

- [Mercor — Software Engineer (AI/RL Infrastructure)](https://www.mostofashakib.com): Leads reinforcement learning harness infrastructure for reward computation in agentic RL training.
- [CSB (AI Recruitment) — Engineering](https://www.mostofashakib.com): Built an AI hiring platform replacing resume screening with AI interviews; used by 60,000 developers; managed a team of 6.
- [ZipRecruiter — Engineering](https://www.mostofashakib.com): Led a multi-year transition to automated QA and a real-time video interview product (zipIntro).
- [Snapchat — Engineering](https://www.mostofashakib.com): Owned messaging identity migration on the messaging platform & performance team serving 1B+ monthly active users.

## Writing (Engineering & AI)

- [LLM Post-Training](https://www.mostofashakib.com/blog/post-training-llms): SFT, RLHF, and DPO, and how base models are fine-tuned to follow instructions.
- [LLM Evaluation & Benchmark](https://www.mostofashakib.com/blog/llm_evaluation): Why evaluations fail, how to use LLM-as-a-Judge, and why agentic traces are harder to evaluate.
- [LLM as a Judge](https://www.mostofashakib.com/blog/llm_as_a_judge): Reliably using LLMs as evaluators, common biases, mitigation, and structured outputs.
- [LLM Training Overview](https://www.mostofashakib.com/blog/llm_training_overview): A visual mapping of how foundational models are designed, trained, aligned, and optimized for inference.

## Research

- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IwJCxNYAAAAJ&hl): Publication profile.
- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6240-5690): 0009-0001-6240-5690.
- Paper: "Drug Mechanism Prediction Using Latent Sensitivity Representations and Ensemble Learning" (IEEE).
- Paper: "CDFNet: Interpretable Alzheimer's Disease Prediction From Hybrid Imaging and Clinical Data" (IEEE).

## Projects

- [Promethium](https://www.mostofashakib.com): Blockchain wallet with asset inheritance; received funding and support from 1517 Fund and the SBIR US Government program.
- [ResumeGPT](https://www.mostofashakib.com): An AI resume optimizer; went viral on LinkedIn with widespread community feedback.

## Profiles

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mostofashakib)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/mostofashakib)
- [X (Twitter)](https://x.com/mshakib01)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/mshakib01)

## Optional

- [Community: HackCSB — Founder](https://www.mostofashakib.com): Founded Bangladesh's first hackathon ecosystem with leading universities; featured by UNICEF, Dhaka Tribune, and Financial Express.
- [Mentor & Admission Committee — Texas Tech Innovation Hub](https://www.depts.ttu.edu/research/research-park/About_Us/mentors/mentor/?name=shakib-adib-mostofa): Mentors founders and evaluates accelerator applications for $40k seed funding.
- [Advisory & Mentorship](https://www.mostofashakib.com): Advises early-stage AI and infrastructure engineers and founders at Founder's Institute and Relaxy (Accelerating Asia backed).
- [Media Coverage](https://www.mostofashakib.com): Covered by The Business Standard, Daily Ittefaq, Daily Manab Zamin, The Financial Express, and Dhaka Tribune.