Abdul R.

🚀 Looking for an AI Engineer who has actually shipped products to paying customers not just built demos? I'm a former CTO and Lead AI Engineer with 7+ years taking AI products from 0→1 across the US, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia including a Y Combinator-applicant GenAI startup and a multi-platform construction-tech company where I owned the entire stack (Web, iOS, Android, cloud, ML). What you get when you hire me: ✅ Production AI, not prototypes. I've shipped LLM chatbots, RAG systems, recommendation engines, and computer vision pipelines that real businesses run on today. ✅ Full-stack ownership. Model architecture → APIs → cloud deployment (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI). No hand-offs, no "that's not my part." ✅ Business-first engineering. As a former CTO, I don't just build cool tech I build features that move conversions, activation, and revenue. 🎯 Where I deliver the most value: LLM & Generative AI, RAG pipelines, LangChain/LlamaIndex orchestration, vector DBs (Pinecone, FAISS, MongoDB), fine-tuning (GPT, LoRA), Claude/OpenAI API integration Computer Vision, Face biometrics & liveness, document intelligence (OCR + BERT NER + table detection), object detection, content moderation AI Agents & Chatbots, Customer-facing assistants that actually convert leads and shorten time-to-first-value MLOps & Cloud Architecture, Docker, CI/CD, SageMaker, MLflow, scalable deployments with clear cost-performance tradeoffs 0→1 AI Product Builds, From fuzzy idea to investor-ready, revenue-generating product 🏆 Track record highlights: CTO @ Builtop, Built an AI cost-estimation engine, LLM onboarding chatbot, and full Web/iOS/Android product from scratch for a Saudi construction-tech platform that raised $11M Joxy.ai (YC Applicant), Fine-tuned GPT-3 + Stable Diffusion to auto-generate conversion-optimized landing pages; led both product and investor conversations Facia.ai, Shipped real-time face liveness verification that surpassed industry benchmarks on accuracy Shufti Pro & recordme.ai, Production ML for KYC, ID verification, and invoice extraction serving global B2B clients 2× IEEE-published researcher in applied deep learning (MS Computer Science, FAST NUCES) 💬 Why clients keep coming back: I treat your project like it's my own equity. I ask the questions your team should be asking "Are we building the right thing?" before "Are we building it right?" I communicate clearly, document what I ship, and don't disappear after the contract starts. 📩 If you're building something serious in AI and want a partner who has shipped this exact thing 5+ times, let's talk. Send me a message with your project, timeline, and what success looks like, and I'll come back with a clear plan.