Research-grade models, production-grade systems.
I lead AI/ML infrastructure at Rihal, a technology company headquartered in Muscat, Oman. My work centres on building and operating production-grade systems for large language models — from bare-metal GPU provisioning through inference optimisation to the agentic products that ship to end users.
Our compute platform runs on NVIDIA DGX H200 hardware. I own the full stack: SLURM scheduling, Kubernetes orchestration, vLLM serving, and the platform abstraction layers that let product teams deploy GenAI capabilities without reasoning about what sits beneath. On-premise by design — data sovereignty and inference cost are non-negotiable in the markets we serve.
I care about systems that are honest about their limits. The hard constraints of hardware, latency, and accuracy matter more to me than benchmark leaderboards. If a model cannot serve a request in under two seconds on the worst-case hardware, the capability does not exist.
Machine Learning Manager
Rihal · Muscat, Oman
- ›Own the on-premise GPU platform end-to-end — DGX H200 cluster, SLURM scheduling, Kubernetes orchestration, vLLM serving.
- ›Lead the ML team shipping agentic GenAI products into production across the region.
- ›Set the inference SLOs: sub-two-second worst-case latency on the hardware that actually exists.
Lead Machine Learning Engineer
Rihal · Muscat, Oman
- ›Built the platform abstraction that lets product teams deploy LLM capabilities without reasoning about the metal beneath.
- ›Stood up the observability and serving stack for self-hosted models.
Machine Learning Engineer
Rihal · Muscat, Oman
- ›Shipped applied ML features from research notebook to production endpoint.
Logistics Technology Strategist
ASYAD Group · Muscat, Oman
- ›Drove data-engineering and technology strategy across national logistics operations.
MSc, Data Science & Machine Learning
Sultan Qaboos University
2021 — 2024
Muscat, Oman
B.Eng, Computer Engineering
Caledonian College of Engineering
2015 — 2019
Muscat, Oman
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Things I've shipped
Insurance Portal
AI agent that autonomously issues vehicle insurance policies end-to-end.
GPU-as-a-Service
DGX H200 cluster-backed GPU hosting for clients, built on Kubernetes.
LLM Guardrails Workshop
Arabic-language workshop on LLM safety and guardrails.