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The team

Eight people. One team behind your work.

You talk to the people who build it. No account managers between you and the work, and a founder close to every project.

Who does what

From leadership to the keyboard

Leadership

Shehroz Ali

Founder & CEOLahore

AI engineer with 3+ years shipping production software for teams in Canada and Pakistan. Builds LLM systems, agentic tools and model evaluation, and wrote three 2026 research manuscripts on evaluating AI.

LLMsAgentsComputer visionPython

Qaisar Irshad

Co-founder & COODubai

MBA and BBA (Hons.), Hailey College of Banking & Finance. Manages warehouse and distribution for a Pakistani retail chain of 30+ stores, now remotely from Dubai. Before that, a manager at HBL for two years, with earlier roles in life insurance and recruitment.

Business strategyOperationsBankingSupply chain

Department heads

Ayan Ahmad

Head of Client ExperienceFinland

International Business student at KAMK in Finland. Leads multicultural student teams on university events, and analysed the customer journey, website and social media of a Finnish company on a customer-experience project.

Customer journeysCoordinationResearch

Mahrukh Saeed

Head of Design & Applied AILahore

UI designer and AI developer. MS in Data Science from PUCIT, now in the first semester of a PhD there. Designs interfaces for a lending automation platform used by banks and credit unions, developed an OCR model in operational use, and built a commercial appraisal review engine.

UI designOCRRAGLangGraph

Sania Khalid

Head of Cloud & DevOpsLahore

MS in Data Science from PUCIT and a university lecturer in computer science. Former DevOps engineer on production monitoring. Researched LLM-based autoscaling on Kubernetes and taught MLOps labs on Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD.

KubernetesAWSCI/CDMLOps

Engineering

Haris Mirza

AI/ML EngineerLahore

BS Computer Science, COMSATS. 2+ years building machine learning systems: Urdu speech-to-text on Whisper, RAG chatbots, forecasting models and YOLOv8 pipelines, with Flask APIs and real-time dashboards. Before that, a software engineer working in Next.js.

WhisperRAGForecastingYOLOv8

Muhammad Eihaab

Full-stack EngineerLahore

BSc Computer Science, UET Lahore (2025). Has built SaaS, Shopify, OCR, visual search and learning-platform products for a Canadian agency and a Lahore software house.

ReactDjangoNode.jsFlutter

Saad ur Rehman

Automation EngineerLahore

BS Computer Science, UET Lahore (2025). Builds Python pipelines with scheduling, retries and failure recovery, and has deployed three production automation systems for real estate clients. Also shipped a Unity game to Google Play.

PythonDjangoCelerySelenium
How we staff a project

The right people, and only the right people

A founder stays close

Shehroz or Qaisar is your direct contact from the first call to launch and after it.

Specialists by project

Engineers and specialists join for the work that needs them, so you pay for what your project uses.

Hours that overlap

Between Lahore, Dubai and Finland, our working hours cover Pakistan, the Gulf and Europe.

Talk to us

Meet the people who would build it

The first call is free and takes 30 minutes.

hello@operandalabs.com
Lahore · Dubai · Finland · working worldwide