Engineer, Founder & Podcast Host
I'm Naeem Shahzad — an AI Engineer based in Saudi Arabia, specialising in enterprise AI systems, agentic pipelines, and production-ready LLM infrastructures. I bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI research and real-world business impact.
Beyond engineering, I host a bilingual (Arabic & English) tech podcast covering AI careers, startup culture, and deep-tech conversations with industry leaders across the MENA region.
Tech Stack
A Story of
Relentless
Building
From a curious CS graduate to a senior AI architect — here's how I went from writing my first ML model to leading teams building systems that serve millions.
Computer Science Graduate
Started my journey in AI & machine learning at university, fascinated by how machines can learn from data.
Junior AI Engineer @ Riyadh Tech
Built my first NLP pipeline for Arabic text classification. Deployed to 500k+ daily users across Saudi Arabia.
Senior AI Engineer — MENA Region
Led a team of 6 engineers building enterprise recommendation systems processing 50M events per day.
Launched NAYM Podcast
Started the bilingual tech podcast to share AI knowledge with the Arab world. Grew to 80k+ monthly listeners.
Founding AI Architect
Building agentic AI platforms for enterprises in KSA & UAE. Working at the frontier of LLM applications.
Built to Scale,
Made to Last
Every system I build is designed for production from day one — fault tolerant, observable, and ready to serve millions.
Arabic NLP Platform
Production-grade natural language processing system for Arabic text. Serves 12M+ users across 6 MENA countries with 99.97% uptime.
Enterprise LLM Agent
Multi-agent orchestration framework for enterprise workflows. Automates complex decision pipelines.
ML Pipeline Infra
End-to-end ML training, evaluation, and deployment infrastructure for 40+ production models.
Real-Time Personalisation Engine
Processes 50M events/day. Drives 34% lift in user engagement through deep collaborative filtering and contextual bandits.
How I
Build Things
A repeatable, battle-tested process refined across 40+ enterprise projects. Fast without being reckless. Thorough without being slow.
Discover & Scope
Deep-dive into your business challenge. Map data assets, constraints, and success metrics before writing a single line of code.
Design & Prototype
Architect the solution, choose the right models, and validate assumptions with a rapid prototype in days — not months.
Build & Integrate
Production-grade implementation. API design, data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and seamless integration into your stack.
Deploy & Scale
Ship to production with monitoring, observability, and auto-scaling baked in. Your system grows with your business.
Build Enterprise
AI with Orhan
NAYM Studio is the builder layer behind serious AI transformation. Through Orhan.ai, I help ambitious teams design, ship, and govern agentic AI systems for the enterprise.
Founder-led AI systems for work, service, and process.
Orhan.ai focuses on breaking silos, automating workflows, and orchestrating AI agents across enterprise environments. The studio brings that same product mindset to strategy, implementation, enablement, and long-term AI operations.
Orhan.ai Vision
NAYM is the founder of Orhan.ai, building enterprise AI around work, service, and process automation for teams that need practical outcomes.
Agentic AI Systems
From enterprise search and agent builders to multi-agent orchestration, the studio helps companies move from AI experiments to shipped workflows.
Governed Rollout
Designed for confident deployment with integrations, observability, admin controls, and governance patterns that fit real enterprise environments.
Let's Build
Together
Have an AI challenge? Building something ambitious? Want to chat about the future of AI in the Arab world? I'd love to hear from you.