Mahil Hussain

AI & Automation Specialist

Summary

I build and ship AI systems, agents, and dashboards with Claude Code and modern AI tools.

Skills

Experience

ACT Polyols

Specialist, Artificial Intelligence & Automation Department · Karachi, Pakistan · May 2026 – Jul 2026

Third Eye Cacao Lounge

Operations & Production Assistant · Austin, Texas · Feb 2026 – Apr 2026

Synapse · Pakistan Neuroscience Institute

Psychology Research Intern · Karachi, Pakistan · Jun 2025

KTrade Securities

Stock Research Intern · Karachi, Pakistan · Oct 2024 – Dec 2024

Metatex Packaging

Quality Control Associate · Karachi, Pakistan · Oct 2025 – Dec 2025

YouTube

Content Creator · Karachi & Houston · Jul 2016 – Sep 2018

Projects

NeoTopia.io

Browser multiplayer strategy game, a digital implementation of the board game Neotopia (Arcane Wonders / MEBO Games): real-time rooms, bots, 1,479 automated tests and CI.

AetherOS

A personal dashboard for daily life: finances, goals, habits and a personal AI. In beta on iPhone and Android.

AetherMind

A metaphysical and spiritual knowledge game: five modes, twelve realms, a daily challenge and a working leaderboard.

AetherNet

A contemplative social platform built as the deliberate opposite of the feed: no followers, no likes, no algorithm, across twelve themed realms.

Aetheric

Consciousness-focused streetwear: eco-friendly tees, designed end to end.

Education

University of Houston

Coursework: Computer Science, Philosophy, Entrepreneurship · Houston, Texas · Aug 2023 – Feb 2024

Nixor College

A-Levels: Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science · Karachi, Pakistan · Aug 2020 – Jul 2023

Certifications

Volunteering

Special Olympics Pakistan

Young Athletes Camp Volunteer · Sep – Oct 2022

Assisted in organizing activities for children with Down syndrome.

Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Houston

Volunteer · Jan – Feb 2024

Business outreach securing sponsorships for WolffFest.

I'm based in Austin. Born in Houston, raised between Texas and Karachi, and both places are still in how I work. I love building systems that let me use my creative mind, then testing whether what I built actually holds up. Right now that means AI: agents, automation, and tools that do real work. What pulls me forward is bigger: renewable energy, and apps, games, and systems that expand human consciousness and bring technology into harmony with nature. If you're building something new and exciting, reach out. Let's stay connected.

Journey

Texas

I was born in Houston, Texas, and grew up there. My mother raised the three of us on her own. My brothers are four and nine years older than me, so I was the youngest by a long way.

Pakistan

the leap

Around fifth grade we moved to Karachi, one of the biggest cities in the world. Everything changed at once, American schooling for British, and for the first few years I struggled to adapt and to make friends. Then it turned. I found my footing and came to enjoy it. I did my O-levels in the British system, and outside school I was pulled hard toward computers and technology, and near-addicted to video games, Pokemon straight through to Skyrim. A-levels at Nixor College came next: maths, physics and computer science, pointed at data analysis on my brother's advice. I applied to Texas State, UT Dallas and the University of Houston, and I went with my hometown, Houston, in the end.

Houston

the return

I left Karachi for the University of Houston and started college. Two terms. In the first I taught myself to study with ChatGPT, experimenting to work out how to get the most out of it. In the second I fell hard for philosophy, metaphysics and the study of religions, and started collecting books. Entrepreneurship caught me too, and the idea of building something of my own. So did psychology, which I practised on campus by going deeper than small talk with students, in conversations that were really therapy. I dropped my computer science class. Outside all of it I went looking for like-minded people I couldn't find at UH alone, in meditation groups, breathwork and community events around the city. Then, on February 26, 2024, a medical emergency nearly took my life, and I left college and went back to Pakistan to recover in body and mind.

Karachi

the reset

Two months in a hospital, then a long recovery. Healing turned into studying. I interned, and I learned the stock market and how to trade it. I took the digital textile design course at Indus Valley, started in Photoshop, and learned to make designs that ended up printed on my own clothing samples: screen printing, heat press, block printing. With a team I wrote research papers and presented a final project.

Austin

I got an apartment in Austin with my brother, and this is where I am now. I'm open to what opens up next.

I'm based in Austin. Born in Houston, raised between Texas and Karachi, and both places are still in how I work. I love building systems that let me use my creative mind, then testing whether what I built actually holds up. Right now that means AI: agents, automation, and tools that do real work. What pulls me forward is bigger: renewable energy, and apps, games, and systems that expand human consciousness and bring technology into harmony with nature. If you're building something new and exciting, reach out. Let's stay connected.

Work

Specialist, Artificial Intelligence & Automation Department · ACT Polyols (Private) Limited

May 2026 – Jul 2026 · Karachi, Pakistan

Built the company's AI department from the ground up as its sole member, reporting directly to leadership.

Operations & Production Assistant · Third Eye Cacao Lounge

Feb 2026 – Apr 2026 · Austin, Texas

My first Austin chapter.

Psychology Research Intern · Synapse · Pakistan Neuroscience Institute

Jun 2025 · Karachi, Pakistan

Research on mental health interventions under Dr. Ayesha Mian.

Stock Research Intern · KTrade Securities

Oct 2024 – Dec 2024 · Karachi, Pakistan

Quality Control Associate · Metatex Packaging

Oct 2025 – Dec 2025 · Karachi, Pakistan

Product inspection and quality standards in production.

Content Creator · YouTube

Jul 2016 – Sep 2018 · Karachi & Houston

I started the channel in Karachi in 8th grade, recording Agar.io with friends on my first laptop, and grew it through Fortnite highlights into short-form compilations before Reels and TikTok existed. Two summer months in Houston took it to 20,000+ subscribers and 10M+ views. It earned over $9,000 in 2 months through monetization, and then I stopped, deliberately, for school.

Credentials

Education

University of Houston

Coursework: Computer Science, Philosophy, Entrepreneurship · Aug 2023 – Feb 2024 · Houston, Texas

Nixor College

A-Levels: Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science · Aug 2020 – Jul 2023 · Karachi, Pakistan

Certifications

Volunteering

Young Athletes Camp Volunteer · Special Olympics Pakistan

Sep – Oct 2022 · Assisted in organizing activities for children with Down syndrome.

Volunteer · Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Houston

Jan – Feb 2024 · Business outreach securing sponsorships for WolffFest.

Method

I write the plan first. Every agent terminal I run reads its own written role and its own blueprint, so no two lanes touch the same files or repeat each other's work, and each one closes by recording what it learned and scoring itself, which makes the next session better than the last. That discipline is what keeps the token cost down and the output high. Nothing ships until a test has been proven able to fail. I build systems businesses run on, automating the manual parts and optimising what already works, and I keep looking for the next thing to improve in a build I have already delivered. Passion-driven, always learning, always expanding what I can build. Remote or on-site.

Examples of what I have built

ACT Polyols plant operations portal

A real-time operations platform for a working polyol plant: production and quality monitoring, utilities and energy, export logistics, and role-based administration, on Microsoft Azure with enterprise sign-on. Built solo to a written spec, with parallel agent terminals working separate lanes, and adopted into daily plant use at handover.

This site

A playable board that opens onto the résumé, a plain scrolling version for readers who would rather not play, and every claim on it linked to the document behind it. Separate agent lanes with no overlapping files: one builds the interface, one writes the content and ships the deploy, and one exists only to prove the other two wrong.

NeoTopia.io

A real-time multiplayer board game in the browser: live opponents, reconnect handling when a connection drops, and screen-reader support throughout. Directed across parallel agent terminals over many sessions, with a test suite standing between every change and the deploy.

Digital implementation of Neotopia by André Santos and Orlando Sá (Arcane Wonders / MEBO Games); all code, prompts, and generated art mine.

AetherMind

A metaphysical and spiritual knowledge game: five game modes, twelve themed realms, a shared daily challenge, and wrong answers that become flashcards. Installable onto a phone straight from the browser, built and shipped with the same multi-terminal method.

AetherOS

A personal dashboard for daily life: finances, goals, news, books, weather, habits and rituals, and a personal AI, in one app. In beta on iPhone and Android home screens, built section by section across parallel terminals.

Website rebuild for an engineering consultancy

A complete website rebuild for a long-established Karachi engineering consultancy: a verified project archive, and every claim on the site traced to a source document. Delivered to the company as a working prototype for future use, not publicly launched, and built the same way, with the spec written before the code.

What I can build for you

The AI toolbox

Claude & Claude Code

Agentic coding from the terminal: it reads a whole repository, plans a change, and edits across many files at once.

ChatGPT & Codex

A broad general assistant, with a hosted agent that can work through a task in the background and hand back a result.

Midjourney

Stylised image generation, art-directed through reference images and parameters rather than description alone.

Gemini

A very large context window, for reading a whole document or codebase in a single pass.

Perplexity

Search-grounded answers that arrive with their citations attached, so a claim comes with somewhere to check it.

Cursor

An editor with the model inside it, making precise inline edits against an indexed codebase.

Obsidian

Local plain-text notes with links between them, stored as files you own rather than in someone else's database.

Lovable

Prompt to a working, deployed web front end in one pass.

Higgsfield AI

Short video where the camera move is a control you choose rather than a phrase you hope lands: dollies, cranes and orbits.

Text-to-image (GPT)

Image generation that follows long literal instructions and renders readable text inside the picture.

Claude Skills & GitHub Repos

Reusable skill files and open-source repositories that hand an agent procedures and tools it does not ship with.

How the plant portal got built

The plant portal is the example. What it does is on the Work page; this is how it got built, and it is how I build everything else.

Capabilities

AI Agent Orchestration & Agentic Engineering

70 sessions directing three parallel AI agents to ship a real-time multiplayer game.

AI Automation & Business Systems

A fourteen-module plant operations platform, built solo and adopted into daily operations.

AI Evaluation, Testing & Reliability

1,479 automated tests across 152 files and four CI workflows on one project.

AI Assistants & LLM Applications

A bilingual English and Urdu assistant program giving every department a role-aware assistant.

Production Deployment · Microsoft Azure

Deployed on Microsoft Azure with enterprise single sign-on; in production at handover, July 2026.

AI Security & Governance

Credential and access-control hardening across a live industrial platform.

Full-Stack AI Application Development

A live trivia game across twelve realms, installable from the browser as a PWA.

Web Design & Performance

Lighthouse 100s across the board on a delivered rebuild, and a B2B redesign benchmarked against leading global manufacturers.

Product & UI/UX Design

AetherNet runs on a locked specification set; this site's own design tokens ship with a painted contrast proof for every pair.

AI Content Pipelines

A book written in collaboration with AI, and 56 illustrated cards generated for one game.

Audience & Content

20,000+ subscribers and 10M+ views on a channel run 2016–2018.

Contact

Open to AI work and new projects. Reach out and let's build together.

Reach me

Passion Projects

NeoTopia.io · game · working prototype

A browser multiplayer strategy game, a digital implementation of the board game Neotopia (Arcane Wonders / MEBO Games), built as a personal learning project: I wrote every prompt, three AI agents wrote every line. Real-time rooms, bots, 1,479 automated tests, CI, full keyboard and screen-reader play.

AetherOS · personal life OS · in beta

A personal dashboard, your own operating system for daily life: finances, goals, news, books, weather, habits and rituals, and your own personal AI, all in one place. In beta now as a working app on iPhone and Android home screens.

AetherMind · game · live

A metaphysical and spiritual knowledge game, and the territory my book lives in. Five game modes, twelve realms, a shared daily challenge, and wrong answers that turn into flashcards. Installable on any phone straight from the browser.

AetherNet · product · working prototype

A contemplative social platform built as the deliberate opposite of the feed: no followers, no likes, no streaks, no algorithm. Short drops, deep essays, and a sealed private space to think, across twelve themed realms. A mirror that remembers.

Tabib (طبیب) · health · in development

Urdu-English voice transcription and clinical suggestions for Pakistani doctors: live transcript on one panel, differentials and tests on the other, in the language no medical AI tool supports. A commissioned build with a partner intending Karachi hospital pilots. A two-day working sample at an early startup stage; never launched.

YouTube · 2016–2018 · 10M+ views

20,000+ subscribers and 10M+ views, built between 2016 and 2018.

Xavier: Renegade Angel · audience · 2023

One month, end of December 2023 to January 2024: could I take a brand-new account to 10,000 followers in a niche nobody was serving? I picked Xavier: Renegade Angel and finished at 13.9K on Instagram and 7K on TikTok, with one reel past 7 million views.

The Grand Conspiracy of Forgetting Who You Are · book · 2025

A collection of personal experiences mixed with a few fun conspiracy theories, all circling one idea: we are born with amnesia, and the work of a life is remembering our purpose and potential. A witty take on spirituality and consciousness from my lens. Written and published in early 2025; most of it arrived through dreams.

Aetheric · brand · pre-launch

A sacred-geometry streetwear brand from Karachi. Physical garment samples produced, first drop in the works.

Mahil Hussain