Shahzeb's CV
Shahzeb Naeem
Technology, Strategy & Management
Profile summary
Accomplished Technology, Strategy and Management professional with 5 years of progressive experience across artificial intelligence, solution design, and technical consulting, operating as a trilingual communicator in English, Arabic, and Urdu. Track record of directing research initiatives, managing pre-sales solution design, and coordinating cross-functional product and delivery teams for enterprise clients. Dedicated to bridging technical capabilities with business requirements to deliver functional outcomes.
Career highlights
AI Solutions and Delivery: Manages pre-sales solution design and AI solution development, shaping proposed capabilities around client requirements while coordinating cross-functional teams.
Technology Project Consulting: Consulted on technology projects by coordinating partnerships with industry leaders and government stakeholders for the AI summit alongside facilitating collaborations.
Research and Academic Mentorship: Directed research initiatives focused on generative sign language models and image classification methodologies while mentoring students in artificial intelligence fundamentals.
Machine Learning Engineering: Maintained technical oversight of machine learning pipelines and model deployment schedules, optimizing deepfake detection models and object detection pipelines for production.
Key skills
Professional experience
Manages pre-sales solution design and AI solution development, shaping proposed capabilities around client and business requirements. Coordinates cross-functional product, technology, and delivery teams while engaging C-suite and VP-level stakeholders. Shapes pre-sales solutions and pitches for AI-native SME banking transformations.
- Manages C-suite and VP-level stakeholders to maintain alignment across business objectives.
- Develops pre-sales solution designs for AI solution development initiatives.
Operated as Tech Projects Consultant, coordinating partnerships with industry leaders and government stakeholders for the AI20 summit. Directed technical collaboration programs focused on regional industry transformation.
- Facilitated high level technology collaborations directed at UAE industry transformation.
Directed research initiatives focused on generative sign language models and image classification methodologies. Delivered technical pitches to secure collaborator engagement and mentored students in artificial intelligence fundamentals and programming practices.
- Researched and developed methods for generating sign language deepfakes alongside distinguishing synthetic from real images.
- Delivered technical pitch presentations to secure collaborator support for AI projects.
- Mentored students in AI and programming to ensure project readiness.
Maintained technical oversight of machine learning pipelines and model deployment schedules within AI engineering functions, coordinating across squads to plan feature releases, align technical requirements with product goals, and support system architecture decisions.
- Optimized deepfake detection models, object detection, and tracking pipelines for production environments.
- Integrated artificial intelligence solutions into existing software workflows, improving development efficiency.
- Observed treatment module rollouts across clinical testing environments.
- Reviewed beta key performance indicators to assess feature performance.
- Integrated artificial intelligence solutions into existing workflows, increasing development efficiency at CureMD.
Projects
Designed and delivered an AI-powered Emirati Sign Language education prototype for a UAE Ministry of Education case study
Built an in-house app for the company with agentic workflows for internal processes like RFPs, meetings among other features.
Developed an agentic pipeline via Telegram and n8n to curate Bahraini dialectal speech; fine-tuned Whisper V3 Large to optimize transcription accuracy for localized Middle Eastern linguistics.
Education
- CGPA: 3.75/4
- CGPA: 3.79/4
- Grades: O: (5A*, 1A, 1B) A: (1A*, 2A)
Languages
English · Native
Arabic · Native
Urdu · Native