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Asaad

Data & AI, Systems, People

Agentic AI, Systems Engineering, and Automations built for business outcomes and adoption.

Python Python
Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure
Javascript Javascript
Docker Docker
Jira Jira
Palantir Palantir
Hugging Face Hugging Face
Ollama Ollama
LangGraph LangGraph
50 B+

In Enterprise Value Supported

10 +

Solutions in Production

10 +

Industry Certifications

5 +

Data & AI Professionals Mentored

Experience Timeline

From Honours graduate to national AI lead — a decade of compounding impact.

  1. Data & AI Lead

    Deputy CEO Office, NEOM

    Owned and Built executive-grade AI systems and cloud-native data platforms for NEOM's highest-stakes decisions, while leading engineers across the full AI delivery lifecycle.

    • Built and maintained executive decision support systems such as automating risk & compliance for high-value projects with 360° analysis
    • Engineered and Deployed Data & AI pipelines on Microsoft Fabric
    • Led engineers as a hands-on technical mentor, setting standards and agile delivery timelines
  2. Data & AI Product Lead

    Tech & Digital, NEOM

    Spearheaded NEOM's foundational Arabic LLM — recognised as Saudi Arabia's national champion — and represented NEOM at national events to VVIPs and audiences of 500+.

    • Led development of NEOM's Arabic LLM, AraMUS, achieving national champion benchmark performance
    • Published AraMUS at ACL 2023, a top-tier international NLP conference
    • Delivered public speeches to 500+ attendees at KAUST, LEAP, and GITEX, representing NEOM's AI vision and capabilities
  3. M.Sc. Computer Science

    King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)

    Deepened expertise in NLP and AI systems at KAUST, one of the region's top research institutions, directly laying the groundwork for technical leadership in LLM space.

    • Graduate research in NLP, GANs, and distributed systems
    • Reviewed papers for top-tier conferences including ACL and NeurIPS
    • Teaching Assistant for introductory graduate-level courses
  4. Lead Researcher

    Deanship of Research, KFUPM

    Managed $17,000+ in research grants as Principal Investigator across Systems and Machine Learning — producing peer-reviewed publications at international venues.

    • Managed $17,000+ in research grants as Principal Investigator
    • Led multiple research projects spanning Systems and Machine Learning domains
    • Published outcomes at peer-reviewed international conferences including Mobicom 2020, CoRR 2021
  5. Automation Engineer Intern

    Innovation Team, Saudi Aramco

    Self-initiated OpenCV and automation projects projected to save ~$500,000 annually, demonstrating entrepreneurial drive within one of the world's largest energy companies.

    • Proposed and implemented OpenCV-based automation entirely on personal initiative
    • Projected $500,000 in annual cost savings by automating core business processes
  6. B.Sc. Computer Science — Honours

    King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

    Graduated with Distinction, building deep foundations in algorithms, systems, and machine learning while concurrently leading university research as Principal Investigator.

    • Graduated with B.Sc. Honors in Computer Science
    • Principal Investigator for multiple ML & Systems research projects
    • Laid the technical foundation for a career at the frontier of AI research and engineering

Skill Grid

Tools and disciplines built across research, engineering, and national-scale AI delivery.

LLMs & NLP

LLMsNLPVisual LLMLangChainLangGraphPrompt Engineering

Cloud & Data Platforms

Microsoft AzureMicrosoft FabricPalantir FoundryData LakehousePipeline Design

AI Engineering

PythonOpenCVComputer VisionProcess AutomationEmbedded SystemsProduct Design

Leadership & Delivery

Technical MentoringOKR AlignmentAgile / ScrumCross-functional TeamsExecutive Comms

Featured Projects

Production systems and research initiatives that shipped and drove measurable, real-world impact.

Production · 4 Executives

AI Mailbox

Embedded agent that monitors executive mailboxes, captures action items, and delivers daily summaries of ongoing conversations and required follow-ups. Recovers ~2 hours of executive attention per person per day and ensures critical communications and decision points don't slip.

Agentic AILLMsEmail AutomationExecutive ToolsPython
SAP Ariba · +100K Potential Records Unlocked

PO Deep Mining

Qwen3 agentic pipeline that reasons over procurement order attachments in SAP Ariba, extracting scope of work, stakeholders, and timelines. Processes 100–200 new POs per month and surfaces redundant scope, risk flags, and decision-ready data on every record.

Qwen3Agentic AISAP AribaDocument IntelligencePython
Palantir Foundry · ~$50B Project Value

Risk360

Agentic risk analysis over project proposals — reasons against a structured risk library to flag local content risk, illogical assumptions, and proposal gaps, then generates an executive summary. Covers ~200 proposals per year representing approximately $50B in project value.

Agentic AIRisk AnalysisPalantir FoundryLLMsPython
Palantir Foundry · 3 Days → Minutes

Engagement360 Report

Generates enriched reports with charts of all engagements between a business unit and its suppliers, or between a supplier and all business units. Used bi-weekly by executive teams — compresses a 3-day manual analyst workflow into minutes.

Palantir FoundryAnalyticsExecutive ReportingPython
Proof of Concept · Self-serve Analytics

MongoChat

Natural-language interface that converts plain English questions into safe, explainable MongoDB queries (MQL). Demonstrates a self-serve analytics path that, at scale, would deflect a substantial share of ad-hoc data-engineering requests directly to business users.

LangGraphFastAPIMongoDBStreamlitNLP
Palantir Foundry · Minutes → Seconds

Groq on Foundry

Built the Groq API integration into Palantir Foundry, exposing sub-second LLM inference to downstream agentic systems. Reduced LLM response latency from minutes to seconds — now the inference layer underneath Risk360 and Engagement360.

GroqPalantir FoundryLLM InferenceAPI IntegrationPython

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