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Zaid ALayoubi

@zaidalayoubi

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AI Engineer at Watira.ai building a Gulf Arabic audio pipeline for Azure Custom Neural Voice training.

Jordan

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What I'm looking for

I'm open to AI engineering and junior developer roles, whether remote, hybrid, or on-site.

At Watira.ai, I'm building an end-to-end Python audio pipeline to prepare Gulf Arabic voice data for Azure Custom Neural Voice training. I implemented transcription with Whisper and speaker diarization with pyannote.audio, and built a browser-based tool for human review of the dataset.

My projects include a GenAI RAG agent using Azure AI Search and Azure OpenAI, plus real-time person tracking and face verification with YOLOv8, ByteTrack, and OpenCV. I'm completing a bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence & Data Science at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Artificial Intelligence Engineer

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Watira.ai

Jul 2026 - Present (3 months)

Built an end-to-end Python pipeline to prepare a Gulf Arabic voice dataset for Azure Custom Neural Voice training. Key contributions:

Designed smart audio chunking with silence/VAD-based segmentation that respects sentence boundaries

Implemented automatic transcription using Whisper / faster-whisper, with speaker diarization via pyannote.audio (GPU-accelerated)

Built a browser-based review too

Assistant Chef & Team Supervisor

Marmalade

Feb 2021 - Mar 2026 (5 years 1 month)

Progressed from commis to assistant chef over 5 years, leading a team. Developed strong leadership, problem-solving, and quality control skills transferable to tech environments.