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Toni Melki

@tonimelki1

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Data & AI Team Lead delivering sovereign on-prem Generative AI and enterprise analytics platforms on Azure.

Lebanon

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to keep leading enterprise Data & AI delivery—especially sovereign, on-prem Generative AI—and to build Azure + Microsoft Fabric analytics platforms that support near-real-time reporting.

I lead a 10-person Data & AI team at Netways, covering concurrent enterprise delivery across KSA, the UAE, and Qatar with hands-on technical design reviews, mentoring, and client-facing solution presentations.

At Netways, I’ve delivered production Generative AI fully on-premises for data-sovereignty-bound government clients, including intelligent document processing, chatbots, and automated report generation using Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI services.

I also drive presales, winning 5+ Data & AI engagements by authoring technical proposals, designing end-to-end solution architectures, and presenting to enterprise and public-sector stakeholders across the GCC.

I’ve helped early production adoption of Microsoft Fabric, designing OneLake lakehouse architectures and Direct Lake reporting for near-real-time dashboards without scheduled refreshes.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Data & AI Team Lead

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Netways

Jan 2023 - Present (3 years 7 months)

Lead a 10-person Data & AI team across concurrent enterprise engagements in KSA, the UAE, and Qatar. Deliver production Generative AI fully on-premises for data-sovereignty-bound government clients.

Azure Microsoft Fabric Power BI Databricks Generative AI Team Leadership

Senior Data Engineer

Netways

Jun 2021 - Jan 2023 (1 year 7 months)

Cut clients' manual reporting effort by 60% with Power BI semantic models and executive dashboards. Migrated legacy SSIS and SQL Server workloads to Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Synapse Analytics.