Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Yousef Alshuwayi

AI Systems Engineer at noonI work forward deployed

I embed with the team that owns the problem, turn ambiguity into a product, ship it fast, and hand it over so it runs without me.

  • Apple AI Program · 1 of 66
  • SDA Agentic AI Bootcamp
  • Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)

How I work

I work closest to the problem: with the team that owns it, inside their day-to-day, until the solution is theirs.

  1. 01

    Embed

    I sit with the people who own the problem and learn how their day actually runs.

  2. 02

    Scope

    I turn what I heard into a product with clear success criteria we agree on.

  3. 03

    Ship

    I get it into production early, then shape it around real usage.

  4. 04

    Hand over

    I track adoption until the team runs it on their own, then I step back.

This way of working has a name now: forward deployed engineering.

The 16-day platform

noon

AI Systems Engineer · Noon Academy · July 2026 - Present

This is what forward deployed looks like from the inside: I sat with the Training & Development team, not apart from them.

My first assignment at noon was a measurement layer inside a six-day training camp: one exercise a day, ten fixed scenarios, two user roles.

I made myself a bigger promise: embed with the Training & Development team, build the platform that serves their whole training journey, and hand it over needing zero engineering support.

Sixteen days later, the Training & Development Portal was live.

Concept to live
16days
Team adoption
100%
Role experiences
4
  • From a daily assessment tool to the platform that now runs noon's supervisor and leadership training end to end
  • Four distinct role experiences (trainee, trainer, T&D operations console, and leadership views) where there had been two
  • Integrated with noon's central database by API: automatic enrollment, and a daily absence report that reaches HR on schedule, every day, without a human touching it
  • Adopted by 100% of the teams it touches (trainers, trainees, T&D, and HR) before any official rollout
  • Built for handover: question banks, batch management, analytics, audit log, and full operational control, all owned by a non-technical team

The portal in use

A trainer marking attendance for a workshop batch in the Training and Development Portal
A trainer taking attendance
A trainee answering a competency scenario question in the portal on a phone
A trainee answering a competency question
The portal's automated daily absence report arriving as a phone notification
The daily absence report, sent automatically

Also at noon

I judged the Educational Games Industry Hackathon, run with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and supported by Replit. The AI-based solutions in those evaluation sessions proved again that young Saudi talent can ship educational products that compete.

Yousef judging project presentations at the Educational Games Industry Hackathon
Evaluation sessions
Yousef with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and noon teams at the hackathon closing ceremony
Closing ceremony with the MCIT and noon teams

The next goal is already in motion: turning a two-month program tool into a platform facilitators open every single day of the year.

Shaguf Educational Platform

Teaching

Instructor · Jan 2022 - Present

For four years and counting, I've taught computer science to 1,800+ students, holding a 4.9 out of 5 rating the whole way, and honored as best instructor on stage at a Shaguf event.

Teaching is where I learned the skill I use most as an engineer: taking something complicated and making it land, for a beginner, for an expert, or for a stakeholder who just needs to trust the system.

Students taught
1,800+
Instructor rating
4.9/5
And counting
4years
Yousef presenting at the SDA Agentic AI Bootcamp
Presenting at the SDA Agentic AI Bootcamp
Yousef speaking on stage as the honored best instructor at a Shaguf event
Honored as best instructor at a Shaguf event
The audience at the Shaguf session
The room at the Shaguf session

Client and personal

Selected work

/01Course platform · Personal product

Rusokh

I hit the same walls on every course platform I taught on, so I built my own. Bilingual (Arabic/English), payments, video delivery - live and in use today.

Visit the platform →
/02Client work · Web, automation, and AI

GHRS

Freelance via GHRS · 2025 - 2026

Forward deployed before the title existed: end-to-end delivery for Saudi businesses, scoped directly with owners, built, deployed, handed over. Rebuilt websites, automated WhatsApp Business, connected internal tools to customer channels, and advised an early-stage logistics startup on AI architecture.

Visit GHRS →
/03This site

A portfolio that answers back

Built as a product: a streaming AI chat that answers as me, with rate limits, input validation, and prompt guardrails behind the API. Try it: ask it anything on this page.

Operations at scale

Before AI

YAX

YAX · Nov 2023 - May 2025

Before I built systems for machines, I ran them for people. At YAX I was promoted twice in one year - operations, to HR coordination, to Staff Manager for the Riyadh Metro launch: 1,500 staff recruited, trained, and deployed across 45 stations in a single month, serving 30M+ visitors.

Along the way: supervising the World Urban Forum protocol team in Cairo, and leading ministerial transport from Riyadh to AlUla.

That was my first forward deployment, before I knew the term existed. Systems have to survive contact with real people, real deadlines, and real chaos.

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Credentials

Apple AI Program

Apple AI Program

Apple Developer Academy & Tuwaiq · 2025

Selected 1 of 66 from 400,000+ applicants

Agentic AI Bootcamp

Agentic AI Bootcamp

SDA Academy · 2026

Selective admission

Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) · Associate

Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) · Associate

DAMA · 2026

McKinsey Forward

McKinsey Forward

McKinsey & Company · 2026

Also

  • Introduction to AI · KAUST Academy · 2026
  • Data Science & ML scholarship · KAUST Academy · 2025
  • Data courses · University of Michigan · 2025
  • Vibe Coding · SDAIA · 2026