Hussam KhogaliBased in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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AI PRODUCT LEADER · CO-FOUNDER & CTO

Hussam Khogali.

I build AI people can trust.

Based in Riyadh, I build Arabic-first AI products and lead the teams that take them from prototype to production.

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FIG. 01SIGNAL STUDIO
Find the signal in a sea of documents.
Saudi companies using Palmar
700+
Procurement portals monitored
30+
GCC markets covered
6

01 / INTERACTIVE CASE STUDY

Would you bid on this tender?

Try a small, interactive example of the workflow we built at Palmar. Switch companies, open the original clauses, and see what changes the decision.

Tender decision studioSIMULATED DATA

Public facilities maintenance

Sample tender · Riyadh

3 of 3 checks passed

Ready for bid review

All three requirements have supporting evidence. A bid manager can review the result and decide whether to proceed.

Commercial registrationRegistration valid§ 2.1

Provide a valid commercial registration covering facilities maintenance.

Safety certificateCertificate on file§ 3.2

Include a current occupational health and safety certificate.

Relevant experienceThree projects on file§ 4.1

Document at least two completed facilities maintenance contracts.

Human review
PALMAR

Co-founder & CTO · 2025–present

Palmar helps businesses in the Gulf find relevant tenders, understand what each bid requires, and draft proposals in Arabic or English.

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THE PRODUCT DECISION

Put the source next to the decision.

I care about what happens after the demo. When a team is deciding whether to bid, a fluent answer is only useful if they can check it. At Palmar, we linked each extracted requirement to the clause that supports it.

More work in the field.

Hams

Co-founder & CTO

2generative AI products launched

Built the founding engineering team, led product and technical development, and landed the first customer pilots.

DataServe

Senior Software Engineer

~40%faster document processing

Built document and workflow software for government and enterprise teams, with systems handling millions of documents.

02EXPERIENCE

From engineer to founder.

My work has grown from building infrastructure and software to setting product direction and leading founding engineering teams.

  1. Khartoum
  2. Kigali
  3. Montréal
  4. Riyadh
  1. 2025–present

    Palmar

    Co-founder & CTO

    Lead technology strategy and the engineering team. Work with the CEO on product direction, bringing Palmar to market, and seed fundraising.

  2. 2024–2025

    Hams

    Co-founder & CTO

    Set the product vision, led AI research and development, and brought two products from concept to launch.

  3. 2022–2023

    DataServe

    Senior Software Engineer

    Delivered software for more than 10 government and enterprise clients, including document management and workflow systems.

  4. 2018–2022

    Crocodile Studio

    Software Engineer

    Built backend systems for more than 12 client projects, with APIs serving over 100,000 requests a day.

  5. 2016–2018

    Sabal Telecommunications

    System Engineer

    Designed and operated cloud infrastructure for more than 10 clients, with a focus on reliability and security.

03RESEARCH & EDUCATION

How machines learn.

I studied how machines learn from images when labeled data is scarce. That background helps me judge where AI can solve a problem and how to test its results.

Doctoral research in self-supervised learning

Concordia UniversityMontréal, Canada · 2021–2022

M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence

African Institute for Mathematical SciencesKigali, Rwanda · 2019–2021

Full scholarship from Google and Facebook. Researched how AI models learn visual similarities through contrastive learning.

B.Sc. in Electronics & Computer Systems Engineering

University of KhartoumKhartoum, Sudan · 2010–2015

04GET IN TOUCH

What are you building?

I’m open to AI product leadership roles and to working with founders who want a technical partner with an equity stake. If you have a problem worth solving, I’d like to hear about it.

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