📍 Abu Dhabi, UAE | 🧠 AI Product Lead | 🛠️ Builder-PM | 🚀 Founder, Apli.ai (acquired)
I take AI products from demo to production and own what happens after: model choice, evals, cost per resolution, and the line where the agent stops and a human takes over.
- 🔑 keyway - Use any model in Claude Desktop. Bring your own key.
- 🎙️ stopbias - Does voice-agent stop latency survive the phone network? A study with known ground truth.
- ☁️ HobbyCloud - A cloud for small software. The full PRD, written in the open.
- 🗺️ Xpand - See what every area in the UAE is missing, and where to build next.
- 🏥 Sanad - Dubai clinical capacity gaps, district by district. Live
| Product | What it is | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 🦠 Bugzy | WhatsApp AI gut-health coach. Agentic RAG, multi-turn memory, hallucination guardrails | 200K+ users in 6 months, 1.5x retention |
| 🎧 Goodsy | Agentic CX that processes refunds, order changes and subscriptions, with HITL escalation | 65% of 24K monthly tickets resolved without a human, ₹3Cr+/yr saved |
| ⚖️ Model migration | GPT-4o → Llama 3.2 11B, gated on RAGAS faithfulness and relevancy evals | 30% lower inference cost at 85%+ quality parity |
| 👓 Lenskart / John Jacobs | GPT-4 face-shape eyewear recommendations, 500+ case eval suite before launch | Conversion 3% → 7.5% |
| 🎓 Apli.ai | NLP job matching as a ranking problem, 1,200+ institutions, 6.5L+ candidates | Acquired by Edulab |
- 🔑 keyway - Tiny local BYOK gateway for OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible providers. Website
- 🧰 claude-skills - Claude Code skills for daily work: cold email, LinkedIn drafts, sprint summaries
- 📣 webengage-mcp - Track users, log events and trigger WebEngage campaigns in plain English from any MCP client
- 🎙️ stopbias - Offline full-duplex benchmarks vs real phone lines: G.711, PSTN passband, Opus, packet loss, line noise. 144 tests, preregistered Phase 2
- ☁️ HobbyCloud - Private internal apps with brokered credentials and spend ceilings. Problem, competition, 5-stage roadmap, pricing, validation plan
- 🗺️ Xpand - Service-gap intelligence for UAE real estate. Abu Dhabi AI PropTech Challenge
- 📡 community-pulse - The first Xpand prototype: real OSM amenity gaps across 33 districts. Live
- 🏥 Sanad - Bed and specialist gaps, 2026–2040 demand forecasts and planning briefs for Dubai. Live
Merged upstream:
- 🦙 Ollama (182k★) - Close the thinking block before tool_use in the Anthropic API
- 🦕 Deno (108k★) - Watched paths for
deno test --watch, plus reported test locations - ⚡ Ruff (50k★) - Avoid
strictTC001-003 behaviour when future annotations are on - 🎭 Backstage (34k★) - Replace removed tokens in the Table component
- ▲ Vercel AI SDK (27k★) - PDF and other non-image files reach the OpenAI Responses API as
input_file. Co-authored with @aayush-kapoor, from my #14140 - 🌳 Biome (26k★) - Skip unsupported
<script>types in HTML - 🔍 Jaeger (23k★) - Guard addJitter against zero durations
- 🤖 SWE-agent (20k★) - Thread-safe patch hook for multi-worker batch runs
- 🦜 LangChain.js (18k★) - PPTXLoader on the officeparser v6 API
- 🔺 Delta Lake (9k★) - Fix DeletionVectorDescriptor unique IDs
- 🧠 exo - Allowlist instead of blocklist for the Bash PreToolUse hook
In review:
- 🔥 Python Fire (Google, 28k★) - 4 PRs: short flags swallowed by
**kwargs, completion for class-grouped commands, logging for diagnostics, custom__repr__ - 🔎 Magika (Google, 19k★) - 3 PRs: a public
get_content_type_info()API, CLI colours for unmapped groups, typos CI - 🕸️ graphify (124k★) - 8 PRs across extraction, markdown and language support
- Model choice is a P&L decision. Run evals before every swap, or you're guessing.
- Design the escalation path before launch, not after the first angry customer.
- Prototype in days with agents, then decide if it deserves a roadmap.
- Write the spec in public when the thinking is the product.
- 🎓 Lead Instructor, Google for Startups - AI product and prototyping for early-stage founders across India
- 🏛️ Visiting Faculty / Speaker - IIT Bombay, MESA School of Business, Masters' Union and 20+ events on GenAI and product
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