micro1
Sep 2026 – Present
LLM Red Teamer
Tests frontier models and agents for jailbreaks, prompt injection, tool misuse and information disclosure. Each finding is written up as a reproducible case.
Ali Basheer
LLM red teaming and AI data quality.
Work
Cohere
Dec 2024 – Jul 2026
Senior - Data Quality (STEM)2025 – Jul 2026
Data Quality (STEM)Dec 2024
Data quality on STEM training and evaluation data. Criteria agreed with dataset owners, audits in Python and SQL on BigQuery, and pipeline QA. Promoted to Senior within two months.
Consulting
2020 – 2024
Oxy · Veolia · Bilfinger
Environmental, safety and operations consulting for oil and gas, industrial and waste-management clients.
Craftpine
Founder · since April 2026
A research and development studio in Toronto. Every program is published in full on craftpine.com, including the ones that closed.
Corner
Payments and inventory for Toronto corner stores. Independent corner stores often run on a single register, so Corner started from that till. It was built with two AI assistants, took one live charge, then closed on the numbers. Its own unattended store, planned for 520 Barton in Hamilton, is the subject of the study below.
- Build window
- 76 days
- Commits
- 173
- API routes
- 57
- Tables
- 20, row-level security on every one
- Test suites
- 44
- Adversarial
- 19 scenarios and 71 checks, all held
- Live charge
- $1.99 on Amex, July 9, refunded
A 3B language model and speech-to-text ran together on a $250 Jetson-class device, 2.6 seconds end to end. Grammar-constrained decoding cut a reply from 8.8 seconds to 2.9.
How it worked and why it closed520 Barton
This was Corner's store study. Could an unattended store with no staff pay for itself on one Hamilton corner? Eight concepts entered and none survived. The best published throughput for an unattended fresh-drink machine is 6.8 cups a day, and the smallest version of the plan needed 12.
Terrasope
Mineral sensing for ground with no GPS, no satellite link and no people. Only the record layer is built. Entry 1 ran on September 10 and missed, and hardware work stopped there.
Where it standsA few vectors for a mixed folder
Preprint, 2026. A pre-registered measurement of pooled directory embeddings.
Dieselgate
Best Seminar · University of Toronto · 2019
How the auto industry used software to cheat emissions tests, and what it cost. Volkswagen's cars sold in Germany alone: 1,200 early deaths, or 6.8 billion minutes of life. The argument was a tragedy of the commons: profit over public health, measured in EPA's BenMAP.
Registration
Geoscientist-in-Training
Engineers and Geoscientists BC
Submitted August 25, 2026Applicant 282800
Under assessment. Update expected October 2026.
Professional Geoscientists Ontario
Submitted August 25, 2026Application 3585446
Before the Registration Committee. Update expected October 2026.