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Saad
Sharif Ahmed

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Building LLM-powered products, autonomous agentic systems, and RAG-enabled architectures. 10+ years of cross-functional leadership across SaaS, travel tech, and digital agencies.

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Saad Sharif Ahmed

Saad Sharif Ahmed

Bangkok, Thailand

Agoda · Aiqarus LLC

10+
Years Experience
40%
SLA Reduction
85%
AI Adoption
45+
Projects Delivered
About Me

Building the Future with AI

Driving enterprise AI transformation from proof-of-concept to production

AI Transformation Lead building production AI systems at Think Studio and Founder of Aiqarus LLC, an enterprise agent platform for regulated industries. Previously drove AI transformation at Agoda — automating 35+ workflows, cutting SLA times by 40%, and reaching 85% AI adoption in 60 days. Antler EIR with deep expertise in agentic systems, RAG, LLM training, and compliance-first AI infrastructure.

40%
SLA Reduction
AI workflow automation at Agoda
85%
AI Adoption
Tool adoption within 60 days
~6x
Cost Reduction
Smart model routing at Aiqarus
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AI Engineering

LLMs, RAG, Agentic Systems, MCP

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LLM Training

SFT, QLoRA, SimPO, GGUF

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AI Transformation

Enterprise Adoption & Change Mgmt

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Compliance

SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, EU AI Act

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Zero to One

6 Products Launched

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Product & Strategy

Roadmaps, PRDs, GTM, Pricing

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Leadership

C-suite & Cross-functional

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Global

4 Countries, 12+ Markets

Portfolio

Featured Projects

A showcase of AI systems, products, and automation solutions I've built

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Automation

AI Partner Deck Builder

Autonomous agent that generates customized partner presentation decks using market data, performance metrics, and brand guidelines. Reduced manual deck creation time by 80%.

OpenAI Python GCP Slides API
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Product

6-Product SaaS Launch

Led product strategy and GTM for 6 WordPress SaaS products at weDevs. Achieved 6-figure MRR with 6000%+ ROI on paid channels. Built marketing and BD…

Product Strategy GTM WordPress SaaS
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AI & Agents

Multi-Agent Research System

Collaborative AI research system using CrewAI with specialized agents for market analysis, competitive intelligence, and synthesis. Features shared memory and task delegation.

CrewAI LangChain Perplexity Python
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AI & Agents

Auto-Deploying Agent Platform

Next-gen agent platform with proactive task execution, persistent memory, evaluator-as-judge logic, and containerized deployments. Full execution traceability for enterprise environments.

LangGraph OpenAI Docker Python
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AI & Agents

Enterprise RAG Knowledge System

Production-grade RAG architecture with hybrid search, semantic chunking, and multi-modal retrieval. Integrated with vector databases for enterprise document intelligence.

LangChain ChromaDB FAISS FastAPI
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Automation

LLM-Powered Workflow Engine

Intelligent automation system for intent detection, ticket classification, and auto-routing. Built at Agoda to streamline partner operations with AI-driven decision making.

GPT-4 n8n Python REST APIs
Expertise

Skills & Technologies

A comprehensive toolkit for building and deploying intelligent systems

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AI Engineering & Agentic Systems

  • LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude)
  • Agentic AI, multi-step pipelines, tool-calling
  • RAG architectures, vector databases
  • LangChain/LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK
  • MCP, A2A Protocol, Google ADK
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LLM Training & Alignment

  • SFT, QLoRA, SimPO/DPO/KTO
  • On-policy data generation, rejection sampling
  • LLM-as-judge, multi-turn eval harnesses
  • GGUF quantization, vLLM serving
  • Open-source LLMs (Qwen3, LLaMA)
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Programming & Infrastructure

  • Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, Bash
  • React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, REST APIs
  • Docker, Vercel, Modal, AWS, GCP
  • Hugging Face, FAISS, Chroma, Weaviate
  • CI/CD, containerized pipelines
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Compliance & Governance

  • SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, EU AI Act
  • EU Digital Services Act (DSA)
  • Zero Trust Architecture, audit trails
  • Human-in-the-loop approval systems
  • AI governance frameworks & SOPs
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Data & Analytics

  • SQL, Spark, Scala, Hadoop (HiveQL)
  • Metabase, Tableau, Apache Superset
  • GA4, GTM, A/B testing
  • Funnel analysis, cohort analysis
  • Key success metrics design & tracking
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AI Transformation & Leadership

  • Enterprise AI adoption programmes
  • Change management, workflow audit
  • P&L, pricing strategy, GTM
  • C-suite & board-level reporting
  • Agile (Certified ScrumMaster®)
Credentials

Professional Certifications

Continuous learning and professional development

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Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Scrum Alliance • Credential ID: 001260903

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