Sharif Derhem

Building advanced tech solutions focused on engineering excellence and real business value.

✦ Developing AI systems and scalable infrastructure.
✦ Innovating tech products to solve real problems for businesses and individuals.

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★ Specialized Children's Story Platform

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KhayalKids

👔 Founder & CEO

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KhayalKids is a specialized edutainment platform for children. We offer personalized stories where your child is the actual hero, featuring their real name and face seamlessly integrated into the printed book's illustrations using advanced AI. Through this unique experience, we've earned the trust of over 100 moms across the GCC who shared unforgettable moments of their children's joy and love for reading. Beyond stories, the platform has expanded to include interactive educational games that make learning a true joy for kids.

"Seeing themselves as the hero in a printed Arabic story.. is a magical moment that builds confidence and creates unforgettable memories."

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Personalized For Your Child

Your child stars as the hero with their real name and face, powered by a custom-built AI pipeline.

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Trusted By Moms

Over 100 moms across the GCC have shared overwhelmingly positive feedback and their children's joy.

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Fun Educational Games

An interactive math games platform that makes children genuinely love learning and practicing.

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Premium GCC Shipping

High-quality storybook printing with direct shipping to all GCC countries.

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🤝 Co-Founder · B2B AI Solutions

AI-Asaas

⚙️ Co-Founder · DevOps & Business Operations

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AI-Asaas builds B2B AI solutions for companies — helping businesses integrate and operate AI systems at the infrastructure level. As co-founder, handling DevOps architecture and business operations: ensuring reliable product delivery, infrastructure stability, and operational efficiency across the company's products.

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B2B AI Solutions

Building AI-powered products and infrastructure for business clients

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DevOps Architecture

Responsible for all infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and system reliability

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Co-Founder Role

Involved from day one — shaping product direction and operational structure

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Business Operations

Managing the operational side of an active AI company alongside technical ownership

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Career

Experience

From AI gateways to geospatial intelligence — building real systems in production.

Currently

TechRTS · Software & Fintech

AI Engineer

Apr 2026 — Present

Designed and built the unified AI gateway routing and monitoring all LLM interactions company-wide. Additionally, supervised the technical development of a full, production-ready eKYC (Electronic Know Your Customer) system from scratch.

LiteLLMAI GatewayFastAPIDocker

UAE University

AI Instructor (Practical)

Apr 2026 — Present

Teaching the practical side of AI specialisation — bridging theory to real implementation. Courses: Introduction to AI and Algorithm Analysis & Design.

Intro to AIAlgorithm Design

Previously

S-Locator · Location Intelligence

Software Engineer

Jul 2024 — Mar 2026

Built geospatial AI APIs and developed machine learning models to rank and evaluate prime investment locations based on specific business types. Managed CI/CD pipelines and Docker production deployments.

FastAPILLMsGeospatial AIDocker

Yemensoft

System Analyst Intern

Mar 2024 — May 2025

Full analysis of a desktop accounting system — planning, requirements, data collection, entity analysis. Prepared the system for the development phase.

System AnalysisRequirementsDocumentation

Work

Key Projects

Production systems, ML models, and tools designed and shipped.

⚡ Production · TechRTS

Unified AI Gateway

Company-wide AI access layer for TechRTS — single gateway routing all AI interactions with full monitoring, logging, and storage. Complete observability over every request across the organisation.

LiteLLMFastAPIDocker

🌍 Production · S-Locator

Geospatial AI Platform

AI-powered APIs for location intelligence — traffic patterns, demographic data, and real estate insights. Deployed with CI/CD and Docker, serving production traffic reliably.

FastAPILLMsGeoAI

🔒 Personal · Privacy AI

Offline RAG Assistant

Fully offline private document chat — ChromaDB + llama.cpp, zero API calls, zero data leaks. Deployed with FastAPI backend, web UI, and Telegram Bot for multi-channel access.

LangChainChromaDBllama.cpp

🧠 ML · Computer Vision

Age & Gender Detection

Deep neural network predicting age and gender from facial images. Built with TensorFlow for multi-task learning — batch processing and real-time inference.

TensorFlowCNNMulti-task

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📊 Data · Automation

Gaza Genocide Tracker

Live, hourly auto-updated documentation of casualties. Automated data pipelines ensuring real-time, accurate reporting without manual intervention.

PythonAutomationPipelines

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🎯 Tool · Arabic Community

AI Learners Evaluator

Self-assessment for Arabic-speaking developers entering ML/DS. Market-curated questions, personalised learning path output. Built for the community.

PythonFastAPIArabic

Arsenal

Technical Stack

Tools used to take AI systems from idea to production.

AI & Machine Learning

PythonTensorFlowKerasScikit-LearnHugging FacePandasPolarsNumPy

LLMs & RAG Systems

LiteLLMLangChainChromaDBllama.cppRAG ArchitectureLocal AI

Backend & APIs

FastAPIREST APIsBackground TasksPHPSQL

DevOps & Infrastructure

DockerCI/CDLinuxApache AirflowGCPSSH Security

Generative AI & Vision

ComfyUIImage ProcessingComputer VisionCNNFace Recognition

Data Engineering

PolarsPandasFeature PipelinesApache AirflowData Viz

Community

Open Source

Contributing to projects used by thousands of developers worldwide.

@BerriAI

LiteLLM

Active contributor and organisation member. LiteLLM unifies 100+ LLM APIs into a single Python SDK and AI Gateway — with cost tracking, guardrails, load balancing, and logging. The same technology powering the AI gateway built at TechRTS.

PythonAI GatewayLLMsActive Contributor

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Open Source

pandas-ta

Contributor to pandas-ta — a comprehensive technical analysis library for Pandas with 130+ indicators used by traders, quant analysts, and algorithmic trading systems worldwide.

PythonPandasTechnical AnalysisContributor

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GitHub Impact

1,223+

contributions / year

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Knowledge Sharing

Writing & Teaching

Sharing real engineering lessons with the Arabic-speaking developer community — consistently.

Security

A server was crypto-mined for 2 weeks — here's how to protect yours

Real story of a brute-force attack on a Linux server, what went wrong, and the exact SSH configuration that prevents it.

LinkedIn · Arabic588 impressions

Backend Engineering

FastAPI Swagger — why you must disable it in production

How Swagger exposes internal endpoints in production, and the exact code to disable it safely. One of my highest-engagement posts.

LinkedIn · Arabic410 impressions

Machine Learning

Data Leakage — what it actually means, and why most explanations miss the point

The subtle, real ways data leakage kills production models — illustrated with a concrete example that ML engineers encounter.

LinkedIn · Arabic94 impressions

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Sharif Derhem

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