AI Automation & Software Engineer

Hadi Razal

Applied AI, backends, distributed systems

I build applied AI and automation into live operations — and the backends underneath them. Enterprise workflow automation, retrieval systems and internal platforms across the UAE and India, in Python, TypeScript and Java, with a standing interest in system design, distributed systems and database internals.

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Available for work · Dubai, UAE

15,000+

Employees running on HR workflows I automated

Etihad Airways

100+

Workflows automated end to end

Automation

60%

Faster HR answers from the AI assistant I built

Etihad Airways

Years shipping production systems

UAE · India

Selected work

8 projects

Production systems, automation delivered inside large organisations, and the things I built from scratch to understand the layer underneath. Open any project for the workflow, the build and the stack.

ExhibitionBase

Exhibition CRM that turns floor plans into pipeline — reads PDFs, images and interactive plans from ExpoFP, Map Your Show and a2z, dedupes exhibitors across shows, finds the decision-makers and tracks outreach per show.

Next.jsTypeScriptSupabasePythonDodo PaymentsCloud browsers

Product 02

HR Automation Mesh

Approvals, international assignments, compensation, benefits and document workflows across Microsoft 365, SharePoint, SAP and Power BI — including payroll anomaly detection.

Power PlatformUiPathn8nSAPPower BI

Automation 03

Policy HR Assistant

Policy-grounded assistant that cut average HR response time by over 60%, wired into ticketing, approvals, escalations and Teams notifications.

OpenAIRAGMicrosoft TeamsVector search

Applied AI 04

Distributed Job Platform

Fault-tolerant workers with visibility leases, exponential backoff, idempotency keys, dead-letter routing, heartbeat reclaim for crashed workers and queue-depth metrics.

JavaSpring BootKafkaRedisPostgreSQL

Systems 05

HNSW Vector Search

Hierarchical Navigable Small World indexing built by hand: multilayer graphs, greedy descent, heuristic pruning, custom distance kernels, persistence and recall-vs-latency benchmarks.

PythonC++Graph indexBenchmarks

Systems 06

MiniDB

Paged storage engine with slotted pages, a buffer pool, B+ tree indexes, write-ahead logging and crash recovery — then a parse → plan → execute query path on top.

C++B+ treesWALBuffer pool

Systems 07

Transformer from Scratch

Decoder-only language model with no high-level LLM libraries — BPE tokenizer, causal multi-head attention, scheduled training, then sampling with temperature, top-k and nucleus.

PyTorchBPEAttentionSampling

Systems 08

Product Share

Catalogue SaaS for Instagram and WhatsApp sellers — upload products once, get a branded storefront link, and take enquiries on WhatsApp instead of re-sending the same photos in DMs.

Next.jsTypeScriptFirestoreCloudflare R2Razorpay

Product

Experience

Software Engineer, Automation & Applied AI

FairPlatz Design LLCDubai, UAEAug 2025 — PresentCurrent

Own end-to-end delivery across sales, finance, HR, marketing and operations — internal apps, APIs and data pipelines from discovery through deployment.
Architected FairPlatz Brain on 35,000+ exhibitor records: floorplan extraction, entity normalization, lead scoring, pricing insight and automated research.
Shipped Next.js / TypeScript internal tools with RBAC dashboards, automated follow-ups, scheduled pipelines and business-critical integrations.

AI Automation & Software Developer

Etihad AirwaysAbu Dhabi, UAEJan 2025 — Aug 2025

Built enterprise HR automation for 10,000+ employees across approvals, international assignments, compensation, benefits and documents.
Developed a policy-aware HR assistant on OpenAI models that reduced average response time by over 60%.
Delivered Power Apps and Power BI for salary structures, payroll anomaly detection and analytics across SharePoint, SAP and Microsoft data.

Lead Software Engineer

Duoph TechnologiesKerala, IndiaFeb 2023 — Dec 2024

Lead engineer on client-facing SaaS, dashboards, workflow automation and AI-integrated applications — architecture, APIs, tests and releases.
Owned technical direction and delivery across concurrent engagements, from requirements through to production support.
Worked directly with clients to turn requirements into maintainable products and keep live systems healthy.