Kareem Taher · Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Welcome!

Glad you stumbled upon some of my stuff.

Here's a selection of my projects, leadership experience, and professional development.

Selected work

Projects

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01 / Current project

GenAI Bot

June 2026 – Present

A serverless AWS pipeline for answering financial questions over SEC EDGAR data, backed by Claude Sonnet via Amazon Bedrock.

  • Architected a serverless AWS pipeline with SAM, Lambda, S3, and EventBridge: deploying a scheduled EDGAR data refresh function and an on-demand document retrieval function backed by Claude Sonnet via Amazon Bedrock.
  • Designed Lambda I/O contract with input validation, cross-region Bedrock inference, and structured JSON responses including model metadata and latency tracking.
  • Configured Python 3.12 runtime with explicit dependency packaging and IAM-scoped policies, ensuring least-privilege access across S3 and Bedrock resources.
ServerlessAWSGenAI
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☁️AWS SAM
Lambda
🪣S3
🔀EventBridge
🐍Python 3.12
Claude / Bedrock
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02 / Coursework project · ACM@JHU Coding Circles

LaunchStack

Spring 2026

Reverse-engineered and documented a production RAG ingestion pipeline, mapping a 7-stage durable workflow across checkpointed, retry-safe background jobs.

  • Reverse-engineered and documented a production RAG ingestion pipeline (Next.js, Postgres/pgvector, Inngest, OpenAI embeddings), mapping a 7-stage durable workflow — route, OCR, chunk, embed, store, finalize, graph enrichment — across checkpointed, retry-safe background jobs.
  • Built a failure-mode matrix across OCR routing, normalization, and chunking stages, identifying silent failure surfaces (e.g. unhandled exceptions leaving jobs stuck in a "queued" state, silent fallbacks masking degraded routing) and flagging idempotency risks in non-atomic database writes.
  • Diagnosed a status-tracking gap where job state conflated "searchable" with "fully enriched," and proposed an explicit status enum to give downstream teams accurate visibility into pipeline health.
RAGPipeline designSystems analysis
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Next.js
🐘Postgres
🧭pgvector
🤖OpenAI embeddings
⚙️Inngest

Beyond the code

Leadership & Professional Development

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01 / L'SPACE Alumni · NASA

NASA L'SPACE Mission Concept Academy

Greenbelt, MD · January 2026 – Present

  • Applying systems engineering and NASA mission lifecycle processes to develop a space mission concept within a multidisciplinary technical team.
  • Contributed to mission architecture, system requirements, and trade studies through formal reviews (MCR, SRR), delivering a technical design report and presentation following NASA procedural standards (NPR 7120).
  • Applied requirements development, risk management, project documentation, and technical communication through weekly status reporting and structured collaboration with mentors and industry professionals.
Systems engineeringMission design

02 / Career Preparation Fellow

Management Leadership for Tomorrow

Washington, DC · November 2025 – Present

  • Accepted into a selective 18-month professional development program for high-achieving diverse talent.
  • Complete business case studies and assignments to grow leadership and technical skills.
  • Attend conferences hosted by industry leaders, such as Deloitte, LinkedIn, and Target.
LeadershipCareer development

03 / Certification · Dell Technologies

Prompt Engineering Training

July 2026

  • Completed a 5-module, 19-lesson certification on prompt engineering, covering LLM/NLP fundamentals, stakeholder requirements gathering, prompt structuring, and AI ethics/compliance frameworks.
  • Applied prompt design and optimization techniques to structure AI-generated outputs for real-world stakeholder use cases, translating ambiguous requirements into precise, testable prompts.
  • Evaluated legal and ethical constraints (bias, data privacy, IP) in AI prompt development, building a compliance-first approach to generative AI deployment.
Prompt engineeringAI ethics