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ABOUT

Building AI products until they learn to build themselves.

Engineering Lead — Applied AI at Deriv (Dubai). 9+ years. 3× AWS certified. Educator. Professional introvert who thrives on writing to learn and loves questioning existing processes. Into RAG, MLOps, and making C-level dashboards that actually make sense.

Harsh Solanki: Driving AI Innovation & Leadership at Deriv — Strategic AI Product Leadership (6+ revenue-generating products including Nexus, Site Sense, SponsorFlow; 7-person engineering team; high-velocity workflows, compliance, product leads) and Community Engagement & AI Advocacy (300+ AI Talent Sprint participants, Everyday AI global workshops in Dubai and Jordan, global hackathon mentorship with lablab.ai)
AI leadership & impact at Deriv — product, team, and community.

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  • Deriv — Engineering Lead, Applied AI (current)
  • Target — Lead Engineer, GenAI / Senior SWE
  • Quantiphi — ML Engineer
  • Amazon — Business Analyst
  • UChicago Graham School — PGP Data Science & ML

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3× AWS (Solutions Architect, ML Specialty, Data Analytics), UChicago PGP Data Science & Machine Learning.

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PythonAWSGCPReactFastAPIRAGLangChainVertex AITensorFlowPyTorch

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Speaking, workshops, and beyond.

  • Speaker: Autonomous AI Systems

    Wed, Jan 21st · 3:00 PM CET / 6:00 PM GST

    Speaker: Autonomous AI Systems

    Spoke at the lablab.ai × Deriv event on autonomous AI systems. @lablabai & @Derivdotcom on X and LinkedIn.

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