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About the studio

A small studio. A specific way of working.

Axial Foundry is a hand-picked group covering AI engineering, software, design, and GIS — built so a single team can take a project from scope to launch without a dozen handoffs.

9 people
4 international clients shipped
4 peer-reviewed publications

The team

The people you'll actually work with.

A tight, hand-picked team grouped by what each person does day-to-day. No padded titles. No invisible offshore layer.

01

AI & Engineering

6 people
  • Afief Tahir

    Afief Tahir

    Co-founder & Web GIS Developer / Spatial Data Engineer

    Web GIS Development Officer at Mines & Minerals, Punjab. Two years at PDMA Punjab including Control Room shift in-charge for province-wide situational monitoring. Contributor to the first-ever Digital Atlas of Pakistan. M.Phil in GIS and Remote Sensing; bridges spatial data with interactive web applications using Mapbox, OpenLayers, and Geoserver.

    • Web GIS
    • Mapbox
    • OpenLayers
    • Spatial Data
  • Munief Hassan Tahir

    Munief Hassan Tahir

    Co-founder & ML Engineer (NLP / Speech AI)

    Builds production NLP and speech systems. Trained Urdu LLMs on 800M+ tokens with state-of-the-art results across 10 benchmark tasks. Ships RAG-powered assistants for government and enterprise contexts and ASR/TTS pipelines for low-resource languages. DAAD research fellow at Konstanz; trainer at University of Moratuwa; international delivery for clients across NYC, London, and India.

    • LLMs
    • RAG
    • Speech AI
    • Urdu NLP
  • Hamza Ayoub

    Hamza Ayoub

    Mobile App & Game Growth Specialist

    Mobile growth specialist with 7+ years in app and game ecosystems, focusing on scaling products through ASO, paid user acquisition, and monetization strategy. Optimises store visibility, conversion funnels, and campaign performance across platforms, while aligning product, marketing, and analytics to drive sustainable growth..

    • Senior engineering
    • Architecture
    • Full-stack
  • Zeeshan Javed

    Zeeshan Javed

    Computer Vision & Document AI Engineer

    Computer Vision engineer with 5+ years building production-grade image and video systems. Specialises in OCR for Urdu and English documents, end-to-end document pipelines, and vision-based analytics using YOLO, OpenCV, and PyTorch. Ships scalable solutions for document automation, visual search, and video intelligence in real-world, messy data environments.

    • Computer Vision
    • OCR
    • Document AI
    • OpenCV
    • PyTorch
  • Amina Siddique

    Amina Siddique

    Software Engineer (Backend & AI)

    Backend engineer with internship experience at Arbisoft. Builds Flask, Django, and NestJS services with REST and GraphQL contracts on PostgreSQL. Recent projects include an AI-driven resume checker, a Scrapy + Playwright + OpenAI directory pipeline, and a tested NestJS time-off microservice.

    • Python
    • Django
    • NestJS
    • PostgreSQL
  • Hunain Azam

    Hunain Azam

    AI Engineer (NLP)

    Builds applied AI across NLP and vision. Co-author on a LoResMT 2026 paper on English–Urdu parallel corpora. Built VocaTrust — a multilingual mental-health assistant using LLaMA-3.1, RAG, PHQ-9 clinical assessment, and a risk-detection module.

    • LLM evaluation
    • RAG
    • Computer vision
    • YOLO
02

Design & Frontend

3 people
  • Hafiza Maham

    Hafiza Maham

    Full-Stack Engineer (Web & AI)

    Full-stack engineer working across React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Python on both product and AI features. Also ships AI agents (Qwen + RAG) and Azure / AKS DevSecOps pipelines. Certified in Generative AI (Google), LangChain, and Prompt Engineering.

    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • AI agents
    • DevOps
  • Hadia Shahid

    Hadia Shahid

    Brand & Visual Design

    Graphic designer focused on brand identity, marketing visuals, and cohesive design systems. Creates logos, social media creatives, and client-facing assets with strong attention to typography, color, and visual consistency, ensuring every touchpoint aligns with the brand’s voice and positioning.

    • Brand
    • Identity
    • Visual design
  • Sajid Munawar

    Sajid Munawar

    Frontend Engineer

    Frontend engineer specialising in React and Next.js, with experience building responsive, high-performance web applications. Focused on translating design into pixel-perfect interfaces, optimising performance, and delivering clean, scalable frontends using modern JavaScript, TypeScript, and UI frameworks.

    • Frontend
    • Design-to-code
    • CSS

Capabilities

What the combined team covers.

01

Applied AI

  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • Prompt engineering
  • Evaluation
  • Instruction tuning
  • Speech AI

02

Software Engineering

  • Python
  • Django
  • Flask
  • REST APIs
  • SQL
  • Backend systems

03

Web and Product Delivery

  • Business websites
  • Web apps
  • Portals
  • Dashboards
  • UX planning
  • Launch support

04

Automation and Data

  • Web scraping
  • Pipelines
  • CRM integration
  • Reporting
  • Monitoring
  • Workflow systems

Ready to talk?

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