Principal AI Engineer · CFA Charterholder

I take AI from prototype
to production.

Most AI projects stall between demo and deployment. I'm the engineer who gets them across that gapbecause I learn your domain before I write a line of code.

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mehdi --stats

$ AI systems in prod10+

$ Years of experience12+

$ Industries shipped in4

$ Products shipped6+

Trusted by teams inFinance·Defense·Healthcare·Enterprise

Role

Principal AI Engineer

Domains

Finance · Defense · Healthcare · Enterprise

Credential

Principal AI Engineer · CFA Charterholder

Clearance

Active Secret

Cloud

AWS Solutions Architect

01 — The Problem

Your AI demo worked. Your AI product didn’t ship.

The gap between a working prototype and a production system is where most AI projects go to die. It’s not a model problem — it’s an engineering problem compounded by a domain problem. The team that built the demo doesn’t understand your industry’s constraints. The team that understands the constraints can’t architect the system.

I bridge that gap. I’m a principal-level AI engineer who has shipped production systems in Finance · Defense · Healthcare · Enterprise. I earned a CFA Charter to understand capital markets. I hold a Secret clearance to work in national security. because I learn your domain before I write a line of code.

02 — What I Do

I take AI from prototype to production. End to end.

Production AI Engineering

Your AI system needs to work on Monday morning, not just in a Thursday demo. I build LLM-powered products—agents, search, and document intelligence—that run in production with monitoring and governance.

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AI Strategy & Architecture

Before writing code, I help you choose the highest-leverage use cases, evaluate vendors against real constraints, and define a roadmap your team can actually execute.

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Fractional AI Leadership

Senior technical direction for teams that need experienced AI engineering leadership without a full-time executive hire. Embedded support over focused 3–12 month engagements.

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GenAI Products & Prototyping

When speed matters, I take ideas from concept to usable v1 quickly—then design the path from prototype to dependable production.

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03 — Track Record

Shipped across industries. Deep in each one.

Principal-level AI engineering across four regulated, high-stakes domains. Each required learning the business — not just the tech stack.

Sev1Tech

Current

Principal AI Engineer / Cloud Architect

2025 – PresentCybersecurity

Built GenAI systems for CISA cybersecurity operations, focused on production observability and threat-informed monitoring in federal environments where reliability is non-negotiable.

Booz Allen

Senior AI/ML Engineer

2024 – 2025Defense

Delivered containerized GenAI solutions for government and enterprise teams that needed secure, scalable deployments rather than lab demos.

Adviser

Co-Founder

2024 – 2024Startup

Co-built a virtual investment adviser for underrepresented groups, turning natural conversation into personalized financial visualizations people could actually use.

Capital One

Quantitative Analysis Manager

2020 – 2024Finance

Led ML-driven liquidity forecasting across finance, data engineering, and compliance teams, bridging quantitative analysis and enterprise decision-making.

FI Consulting

Senior Consultant

2019 – 2020Finance

Earned the CFA charter while contributing to financial data series work with the Office of Financial Research, translating policy and market context into usable analytical outputs.

Effective World

Chief AI Scientist

2024Startup

Led AI and data science initiatives to improve audience intelligence and campaign optimization, connecting model outputs to operational marketing decisions.