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Shadab Kalim

@shadabkalim

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I build AI, data, and cloud platforms for complex enterprise transformations.

United Arab Emirates

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead AI, GenAI, data, cloud, and enterprise transformation work where I can architect governed platforms, build agentic AI solutions, and guide engineering teams delivering measurable outcomes.

I've delivered AI, big data, cloud, and payments platforms across UAE government, banking, supply chain, and media organizations. At Capgemini Invent, I defined business and data architecture for Al Shirawi Group and built Agentic AI MVPs to automate data-quality evaluation and remediation.

At G42 Presight.ai, I managed data, BI, and AI engineering teams delivering OCR-based accounts auditing for the UAE Accounting Authority and news analytics for Abu Dhabi Media Office. At Saal.ai, I guided delivery of a Big Data Lake platform for Abu Dhabi Department of Health and designed cloud-native, event-driven microservices for the UAE Air Force and Air Defense.

Earlier at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, I led 15–20 developers building payment-processing systems, delivered a core banking upgrade, and developed speech analytics, signature matching, real-time transaction ingestion, and cloud POCs. I bring around 21 years of experience spanning data architecture, AI engineering, software delivery, and cloud transformation.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Manager Data & AI

Capgemini Invent

Jan 2026 - May 2026 (4 months)

Defined business and data architecture for Al Shirawi Group, including semantic data layer and data quality metrics. Developed Agentic AI MVPs using LangGraph, LangChain, and Databricks Mozaic for data quality automation.

Databricks Data Factory Erwin Lang Chain LangGraph Agentic AI Data Governance Data Architecture

Senior Data Architect

Faze 3 Consulting

Feb 2025 - Mar 2025 (1 month)

Defined data governance, MDM strategy, ETL strategy, and data platform architecture for the Lighthouse Digital Transformation project. Designed enterprise architecture to align with strategic objectives.

Data Governance MDM ETL Data Architecture Enterprise Architecture

Big Data / AI Engineering Manager

G42 (Presight.ai)

Oct 2023 - Jan 2024 (3 months)

Managed engineering teams to deliver AI and big data projects for UAE government departments. Delivered accounts auditing using OCR AI model and news analytics using Spark NLP on Azure Cloud.

Azure Databricks AKS Elasticsearch Kibana Data Lake Delta Lake Spark NLP AI Big Data

Big Data Product Manager / Microservices Solution Architect

Saal.ai / Brombeer

May 2022 - Jul 2023 (1 year 2 months)

Delivered Big Data Lake platform on Cloudera and Informatica, including data governance and master data management. Defined architecture for supply chain system using cloud-native microservices on Kubernetes.

Cloudera Informatica Kafka Kubernetes Microservices Data Governance MDM Data Architecture

Project Manager

Atribs Metscon

Nov 2021 - Feb 2022 (3 months)

Managed end-to-end delivery of payment systems on AWS Outpost and G42 Cloud for First Abu Dhabi Bank, handling stakeholders from transaction banking and cash management.

AWS Project Management Stakeholder Management Payment Systems

Software Development Manager

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

Oct 2012 - Apr 2021 (8 years 6 months)

Managed software development for payments processing applications and delivered core banking upgrade. Designed speech-to-text analytics and signature match projects using deep learning.

Deep Learning Spark Kafka Keras TensorFlow .NET Java AWS Big Data Project Management

Assistant Project Manager

NTT Data

Jun 2012 - Oct 2012 (4 months)

Managed context document generator project for Wells Fargo Bank.

Project Management

Assistant Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services

Apr 2010 - May 2012 (2 years 1 month)

Managed one of the largest marketing MDM SQL Server databases (>6 TB) for Microsoft.

SQL Server MDM Database Management

Consultant

Polaris Software Lab Ltd

Feb 2008 - Apr 2010 (2 years 2 months)

Senior .Net developer on residential and commercial mortgage securities project for Citibank.

.NET C#Mortgage Securities

Analyst

Verizon

Jul 2007 - Feb 2008 (7 months)

Senior .Net developer on product/plans launch ASP.NET applications.

.NET ASP.NET C#

Software Engineer

Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Aug 2006 - Jun 2007 (10 months)

.Net developer on wealth management project for Wachovia Bank.

.NET C#Wealth Management

Module Leader

ICRATechno Analytics Ltd

Jun 2004 - Aug 2006 (2 years 2 months)

.Net developer on Windows mobile apps for British Petroleum.

.NET C#Windows Mobile

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Illinois Institute of Technology

Post Graduate Program, Generative AI

2025 - 2026

Post Graduate Program in Generative AI focusing on GenAI, Prompt Engineering, LLMs, Vector Databases, RAG, and Agentic AI.

Munster Technological University

Master of Science, Cloud Computing

2021 - 2026

Master of Science in Cloud Computing covering cloud strategies, automation, orchestration, storage infrastructures, microservices, machine learning, and distributed ledger.