Software Engineer · AI Engineer · Lecturer
I design and ship sovereign, local-first AI and Arabic-first platforms — from the domain model to the production edge.عامر خورشيد — مهندس برمجيات وباني أنظمة ذكاء اصطناعي
— The short version
I build software that keeps working offlinewhen the network doesn’t, reads Arabic RTLas a first language, and refuses to make things up zero fabrication— then stays with it all the way to production.
Selected work · 2025 — 2026
Five systems, chosen for what they prove: AI that runs where the data lives, architecture that holds its shape, and interfaces that speak Arabic natively.
01Multimodal RAG · Video understanding
A video library that watches and listens once — on your own hardware — then writes a title, summary, chapters, people and places for every file, and finds the exact second you remember, in Arabic or English.
02Sovereign institutional AI
A 100% air-gapped AI platform for government knowledge work: local LLMs, clearance-aware document handling, a cryptographic registry for official exports and an Arabic interface dressed in the national visual identity.
03Adaptive learning · EdTech
An adaptive mathematics platform for children: fresh problems every session across four difficulty levels, recommendations from each child’s mastery, pedagogical characters, and a console for parents and teachers — in Arabic, English, French and Turkish.
04Decision support · Quant engineering
A deterministic, refusal-first trade-proposal engine for crypto and gold/FX. It evaluates market structure, multi-venue price consensus and macro events, then proposes an auditable, falsifiable trade — or declines with a typed reason. It never places an order.
05Enterprise media · Mobile
A closed, Arabic-first media platform for an organisation’s employees: programmes, multi-bitrate streaming, reels and audio, alongside a byte-exact digital library of Qur’an, Hadith and Adhkar, prayer times and a Qibla compass.
Institutional systems · Syrian Private University
Where I teach is also where I build: the public website, live room operations, the question bank, correspondence and admissions — each Arabic-first, each in daily use or on its way there.
Institutional platform · CMS
A university’s front door, rebuilt in two languages.
Operations · Scheduling
Every classroom on campus, live.
Question bank · RAG pipeline
Exams grounded in the faculty’s own rules.
Registry · Correspondence · Workflow
Every letter, approval and request — tracked end to end.
Internal management system
The university’s internal operations, in one place.
Inside the machine · Rased
How a raw video becomes something you can ask questions of — without a single request leaving the server. Choose a stage.
Stage 01 / 06
Ingest
Folder watcher · ffprobe
Watched folders are scanned on a schedule. Each new file is probed and queued — one job per stage, so a failure re-runs one step, not the whole video.
Output → Duration, streams, resolution
Stage 02 / 06
Listen
Whisper large-v3
faster-whisper transcribes Arabic and English speech to timed sentences, then silence and phantom lines — the hallucinations Whisper is known for — are removed.
Output → Timed transcript
Stage 03 / 06
Watch
Gemma 4 E4B + vision projector
Representative frames from every scene are described by a multimodal model on the same machine, including any text that appears on screen.
Output → Scenes & on-screen text
Stage 04 / 06
Write
Gemma 4 E4B · JSON grammar
Structured writing is constrained by a grammar, so the output always parses. Long videos are handled map-reduce: per-segment notes first, one coherent summary after.
Output → Title, summary, chapters, people, places
Stage 05 / 06
Index
PostgreSQL · pgvector · bge-m3
Every sentence, chapter and scene is indexed three ways: Arabic light-stemmed full text, trigram for misspellings, and bge-m3 vectors for meaning.
Output → Three indexes, one database
Stage 06 / 06
Find
RRF → bge-reranker-v2-m3
The three result lists are fused with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and reranked by a cross-encoder. Each hit opens the player at the matching moment, words highlighted.
Output → The exact second
Experience
AI for government and research by day, software and teaching at the university — the same engineering discipline in three very different rooms.
Download résuméوزارة الدفاع السورية
AI Developer
Jul 2026 — Present
مركز البحوث العلمية
AI Developer
Sep 2026 — Present
الجامعة السورية الخاصة
Software Engineer & Academic Lecturer
Dec 2025 — Present
Dec 2023 — Sep 2025
AI Engineer
University Project
An ERP platform for suppliers, customers, sales and inventory, with demand forecasting, CV ranking, recommendations, OCR and an AI assistant.
Jan 2020 — Jan 2022
Freelance Software Engineer
E-commerce
A full-scale e-commerce platform — catalogue, cart, orders and secure payments — delivered end to end.
2020 — 2024
Education
Syrian Private University
B.Eng. Informatics Engineering — Software Engineering & Artificial Intelligence
Tech stack · measured, not listed
Pulled from 27 of my own repositories: which languages appear, and which frameworks their manifests actually depend on.
Python
APIs, AI pipelines, desktop
13 repos
C#
Two large enterprise systems
2 repos
TypeScript · JavaScript
Interfaces, servers, desktop shells
21 repos
PHP
Institutional platforms
7 repos
Dart
Mobile, tablet, TV and kiosks
7 repos
SQL
PL/pgSQL and T-SQL
6 repos
AI & machine learning
Data & storage
Delivery & operations
Practice
How I build
Not values on a slide — each one is a decision you can find in a repository above.
Clean Architecture and DDD, enforced — import-linter forbids the shortcuts, modules talk through typed contracts, and invariants are tested with the database switched off.
Whisper, Gemma and bge models on the customer’s own hardware via llama.cpp — verified by checksum, no telemetry, no cloud fallback.
Typed refusals instead of weak answers. Numbers computed, never generated. Evidence labelled REAL, SYNTHETIC or NOT BUILT. Sacred text kept byte-exact.
Right-to-left from the first wireframe: Arabic stemming in search, Arabic conflict explanations, Arabic PDFs, and identities that feel local — not a mirrored English UI.
`__Host-` cookies, rotating JWT with blacklist, mandatory admin 2FA, short-lived signed media URLs, append-only audits, HSTS and hash-pinned CSP — this site included.
Docker and Caddy on real servers, health checks, Windows and macOS desktop installers, and upgrade paths that never ask users to reconfigure.
Lecturer · Syrian Private University
I teach the way I build: start from a real problem, model the domain, write the test, ship the system. Students leave with working software and the judgement behind it.
Practice · Architecture · Foundations that transfer
Project supervisor · Syrian Private University
Guiding graduation projects from proposal to defence — scoping what matters, choosing an architecture that survives contact with users, and getting it in front of real people.
Scope · Build · Defend
The wider body of work
Flutter · Kiosk · 2026
An exhibition kiosk that registers visitors and issues a digital ID card: an interactive tumbling-E vision test, in-app camera, touch-panel fingerprint capture with an optional signed on-device match, SHA-256-derived IDs and a QR code that resolves to the card itself.
Flutter · Offline reader · 2026
An Arabic-first offline library and PDF reader for phones, tablets and Android TV — progressive rendering, two-page spreads in landscape, real covers from page one, full remote control, and atomic JSON metadata instead of a database.
Flutter · Exhibition questionnaire · 2026
An owner-authored questionnaire kiosk: departments, questions and scoring are created on the device, results are normalised so no department wins by larger point values, and publishing is blocked until the content is valid.
Laravel 11 · ERP · 2026
Distribution and shipping for a factory: inventory, CRM with credit limits, a state-machine order lifecycle, trucks and manifests, invoicing and P&L — 180 passing tests, 99 routes, scheduled overdue and low-stock alerts.
Django + PySide6 · 2026
A full restaurant operation in Arabic: tables and sessions, orders and payments, HR and payroll, accounting, inventory, investors and receipt printing, behind JWT and five operational roles.
C# · ASP.NET · Accord.NET · 2025
A three-tier ERP for suppliers, customers, sales, inventory and stock, with machine learning built in: time-series demand forecasting, churn prediction, customer clustering and segmentation, and product recommendations — ASP.NET MVC and Web API over SQL Server.
Flutter · Melos · 2025
A customer app and admin web app on one Clean-Architecture monorepo, split into feature packages — auth, catalog, cart, checkout, orders, reviews, promotions — with CI pipelines.
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