Curriculum vitae
Ahmad Saad, CV
Ahmad Atef Saad · AI Engineer and Forward Deployed Engineer
Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, United Arab Emirates · UAE Golden Visa, no sponsorship required · Available January 2027
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Summary
AI engineer and forward deployed engineer who scopes systems with the people who will use them, then builds, ships and measures them. Computer Engineering at the American University of Sharjah with a 3.96 GPA, graduating in December 2026. Most recently built a production trend intelligence platform at Samsung Gulf Electronics.
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Experience
Samsung Gulf Electronics
Dubai, UAE
AI/ML Engineer
06.2026 - 08.2026
- Architected and solely built a production trend intelligence platform for the regional marketing team in TypeScript, Node.js and PostgreSQL.
- Deterministic signals decide every verdict; language models only describe what the measurements found.
- Held combined data and inference spend to a fixed single-digit-dollar daily budget, with 315 automated tests.
- Scoped it with marketing, creative and innovation stakeholders; it replaced external tooling at an estimated $60K in avoided spend and supported launch campaigns with a projected 20% increase in engagement rates.
Electro-Mechanical Company LLC
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Engineering Intern
12.2025 - 01.2026 · Internship
- Supported SCADA and substation automation projects on Siemens medium-voltage switchgear platforms.
- Covered EPC execution workflows, technical submittals, procurement and on-site material inspections.
Chief Nest
Remote (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Account Manager
09.2025 - Present
- Directs a company-wide go-to-market strategy for a client, scaling operations and restructuring revenue streams.
ONBRND
Remote (California, USA)
Operations Associate
09.2025 - 02.2026
- Restructured client workflows in ClickUp, reducing operational inefficiencies by 25%.
American University of Sharjah
Sharjah, UAE
Web Design and Development Consultant, College of Engineering
08.2026 - Present
- Ships WordPress and Elementor sites for the College of Engineering to live domains in under 48 hours.
- Builds sites that non-technical teams maintain themselves, accessible to WCAG AA.
AI Hub Assistant, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning
11.2024 - Present · Part-time
- Led the HTML and CSS redesign of the CITL AI Hub (aihub.aus.edu), prototyped in Figma, and maintains it on WordPress.
- Writes evaluations of emerging AI tools that shape faculty adoption.
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Computer Science and Engineering
10.2024 - 07.2025
- Speech emotion recognition from log-mel spectrograms with fine-tuned ResNet and MobileNet models in TensorFlow, at roughly 75% accuracy.
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Education
American University of Sharjah
B.S. in Computer Engineering
08.2023 - 12.2026 (expected) · GPA 3.96 / 4.0
Coursework: Machine Learning, Data Structures and Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Computer Networks, Wireless Communications.
More about my time there: Ahmad Saad at AUS.
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Leadership and honours
- President of Tau Beta Pi UAE Alpha, the engineering honor society's chapter at AUS; previously Vice President.
- Tau Beta Pi Scholarship, US$1,000 for the final semester (2026), covered by AUS News.
- Academic Merit Scholarship, American University of Sharjah.
- Dean's List six times and Chancellor's List three times.
- Has served as Treasurer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.
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Projects
Trend Radar
06.2026 - 08.2026
Production TikTok trend-detection platform where measurement decides and LLMs describe.
LocalAI
08.2026 - Present
Private AI for company documents that runs entirely in the browser, with page-level citations and a Playwright audit that proves nothing leaves the device.
Mano Basic Computer Simulator
2025
Cycle-accurate CPU simulator of Mano's Basic Computer with full ISA support and a CLI debugger.
Energy Harvesting LoRaWAN Sensor Node
2026
Custom 2-layer PCB with an ATMEGA4809 MCU, LoRa transceiver, and an energy harvesting power path.
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Certification
- Claude Certified Architect: Foundations, Anthropic. Verify on Credly
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Skills and languages
Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, C++, SQL, MATLAB, HTML/CSS
AI / ML: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, Anthropic Claude API, RAG, Embeddings, Hybrid search (BM25 + RRF), Prompt engineering, Computer vision, Fine-tuning, Quantization, WebGPU, WebLLM, Transformers.js
Tools & Infrastructure: PostgreSQL, Supabase, Docker, Node.js, Next.js, React, Cloudflare Workers, Git, CI/CD, Railway, Pandas, NumPy, Claude Code, Cursor, Figma, EasyEDA
Spoken languages: English and Arabic
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