# Vahid Faraji — Applied AI / Researcher-Builder

> Applied AI engineer shipping production agents and publishing at ACM. Multi-agent systems, context engineering, open source.

## About

Vahid Faraji is a Senior Applied AI Specialist at Kariyer.net (ilab group), Istanbul. He builds production multi-agent systems, publishes peer-reviewed research, and trains teams on AI-native development. His work spans enterprise AI transformation, open-source tooling, and labor market analytics.

## Current Role

- Senior Applied AI Specialist at Kariyer.net (ilab group), 2025–present
- Lead AI/LLM initiatives across Sales, Finance, R&D
- Multi-agent orchestration adopted as group-wide standard
- Secured $40K Perplexity AI enterprise grant

## Publications

- Tool-Augmented Multi-Agent Systems for Job Position Normalisation — ACM CAIS '26, peer-reviewed. DOI: 10.1145/3786335.3813207
- Tokalator: A Context Engineering Toolkit for AI Coding Assistants — arXiv 2604.08290, April 2026
- Leveraging LLMs For Turkish Skill Extraction — arXiv 2601.22885, January 2026

## Key Projects

- Tokalator (tokalator.wiki): Open-source context engineering toolkit. VS Code extension with 500+ installs. Token budgeting, cost modeling across 17 LLMs. MIT license.
- Multi-Agent Job Classification: MCP-based system achieving 95% accuracy on 14K+ positions, 72.5% faster classification. Published at ACM.
- Enterprise AI Platform: Multi-agent orchestration (LangGraph, MCP, Agno) for text-to-SQL, report automation. 60% workload reduction, 200+ users.
- 300M+ Datapoint Metadata Platform: DataHub governance, Azure Synapse, BigQuery. Foundation for all AI/LLM deployments.

## Certifications

- Google Generative AI Leader (Dec 2025)
- Anthropic: MCP, Introduction to Agent Skills, Building with Claude API, Claude Code in Action (2026)
- LangChain: LangGraph, LangSmith (Jan 2025)

## Teaching

- 18h Applied AI Course — Techcareer (2026)
- AI Career Mentor — TEV Foundation
- Enterprise prompt engineering — University guest lectures

## Education

- M.A. Economics — Ibn Haldun University
- Thesis: Real-Time Labor Market Analysis

## Contact

- Email: vfaraji89@gmail.com
- GitHub: github.com/vfaraji89
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vahid-faraji-jobehdar
- X: x.com/vfaraji89
- Website: vfaraji89.github.io

## Links

- [Full Portfolio](https://vfaraji89.github.io)
- [Updates](https://vfaraji89.github.io/updates.html)
- [Tokalator](https://tokalator.wiki)
- [ACM Paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786335.3813207)
- [llms-full.txt](https://vfaraji89.github.io/llms-full.txt)