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Director of AI Strategy

Ahmad Ghaleb Badran

Designing national-grade AI ecosystems where governance, guardrails, and curiosity co-exist.

Executive snapshot

I champion AI strategies that marry national ambition with measurable outcomes — translating policy, guardrails, and multi-tenant architecture into lovable, traceable platforms.

Strategic Vision

Architect responsible AI ecosystems that balance data sovereignty, ethical guardrails, and rapid delivery.

Operational Mastery

Embed FinOps, SRE, and observability frameworks that keep transformation grounded in accountability.

Hands-on Technologist

Lead RAG, LLM, and multi-tenant platform design — from policy-as-code pipelines to explainable interfaces.

Roles that shaped the journey

Leadership tours where I aligned executive agendas with production-grade AI and platform modernization.

2024 — Present X14 Holding

Director of AI Architecture & Strategy

Driving multi-tenant intelligence platforms for public-sector and enterprise teams with RAG workbenches, narrative intelligence, and real-time situational awareness.

  • Designed traceable RAG ecosystems featuring grounding checks, multilingual summarization, and explainability.
  • Implemented observability, autoscaling, and FinOps guardrails across ingest and analytics workloads.
  • Advised leadership on national AI policy alignment and architecture trade-offs.
2023 — 2024 Tahaluf Al Emarat

Head of Platform Engineering

Steered AI-powered modernization of government services with secure DevSecOps, QA guardrails, and right-sized infrastructure.

  • Accelerated analytics delivery while cutting defects by 80% through policy-as-code quality gates.
  • Embedded cost-optimized architectures with automated scaling and FinOps instrumentation.
2014 — 2023 UAE Presidential Court via ITQAN

Principal Architect

Led digital transformation across national identity, integration, and multimedia platforms in high-trust environments.

  • Modernized mission-critical systems with secure coding, observability, and unified API ecosystems.
  • Delivered interoperable services that unlocked cross-entity collaboration with zero-trust foundations.

Signature outcomes

Proof that playful curiosity plus strict governance can deliver delightful numbers.

<1s

semantic search latency

Across multilingual knowledge bases thanks to tuned RAG pipelines and retrieval science.

30%

infrastructure savings

FinOps orchestration that right-sized workloads without sacrificing performance.

99.95%

platform uptime

SRE-led migration from monoliths to AKS/EKS microservices with resilient observability.

80%

defect reduction

Policy-as-code CI/CD that shrank release cycles from weeks to hours.

Flagship programs & playful builds

What happens when curiosity meets national-scale delivery.

AtlasEye

Omni-channel media intelligence

GenAI workbenches with explainability, grounding, and multilingual NLP powering situational awareness.

Maestro Blocks

AI-assisted low-code platform

Governed accelerators for rapid service delivery with AI-generated components and hybrid deployment.

RetailGreen

Unified retail data & loyalty

Streaming insights and tenant analytics delivering delightful loyalty experiences in real-time.

Leadership philosophy

Bridging boardroom promises with operational truth.

Governance with heart

I embed transparency, ethics, and measurement into every stage of the AI lifecycle, ensuring stakeholders trust what they deploy.

Policy meets platform

Frameworks that translate national AI agendas into actionable architecture, making compliance an accelerant not a brake.

Teams as ecosystems

Integrating policy, data, and engineering guilds into Centers of Excellence that deliver together, laugh together, and ship responsibly.

Education & Certifications

  • M.Sc. Computer & Information Systems (Machine Learning) — University of Jordan
  • B.Sc. Computer Information Systems — University of Jordan
  • Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I) — Scrum.org
  • Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Speaking & Community

  • Speaker — GenAI-Powered Low-Code (with Forrester)
  • Open-source contributor & mentor — VS Code LIFX Plugin (4,000+ downloads)

Let's build responsibly playful AI

Drop me a line — I respond faster than your favourite LLM warms up.