Ahmad Nayfeh
Electrical Design Engineer | AI Automation
I studied Electrical Engineering at KFUPM, where I learned to think in systems: inputs, constraints, failure modes. My Master's work took that mindset into AI, from self-supervised learning to medical image synthesis.
In January 2026 I joined Alfanar's Secondary Switchgear Factory as an electrical design engineer. I take customer orders from the first schematic, through customer approval, to a complete production release, and I stay the design contact for QC, testing, and production until the unit ships. The job also showed me how much engineering time goes into checking documents against each other, so I started turning those checks into repeatable, AI-assisted workflows and shared them with my colleagues.
In parallel I build products end to end. Shadhra, an Arabic-first app for saving and revisiting quotes from books, runs on a FastAPI backend with web and Android clients. Khatwa turns daily walking into a game. Both taught me what a portfolio project never does: real users, releases, and maintenance.
My goal is simple: be the engineer who understands the domain deeply and can also build the software it is missing.
- Role
- Electrical Design Engineer
- Employer
- Alfanar, Secondary Switchgear Factory
- Based in
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Since
- Jan 2026
- Education
- B.Sc. EE, KFUPM · M.Sc. EE (in progress), KFUPM
- Languages
- Arabic (native) · English (professional)
Work and education
- Jan 2026 – PresentWorkRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
Electrical Design Engineer
Alfanar, Secondary Switchgear Factory
Own the electrical design of medium-voltage secondary switchgear (RMU, metered RMU, load-break switches, autoreclosers) built to utility specifications: from schematics and customer approval to a complete production release (drawings, wiring and ferrule lists, labels, SAP BOMs), then the design point of contact for QC, testing, and production until delivery. Introduced AI-assisted tools that automate routine design checks and documentation for the team, catching errors before they reach production.
- 2024 – 2025WorkDhahran, Saudi Arabia
Teaching Assistant – Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
KFUPM, Department of Electrical Engineering
Developed teaching materials and led weekly problem-solving sessions for 50+ undergraduate students.
- 2024 – PresentEducationDhahran, Saudi Arabia
MSc in Electrical Engineering (AI Focus)
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Thesis: synthesizing fluorescein angiography images from color fundus photographs with image-to-image translation models. Coursework in self-supervised learning and computer vision.
- 2023WorkDhahran, Saudi Arabia
AI Research Intern – Waste Detection & Classification
SDAIA-KFUPM Joint Research Center
Developed a two-stage YOLOv8 + classifier pipeline, improving the F1-score by 2%. Managed and augmented a 10,000+ image dataset.
- 2018 – 2024EducationDhahran, Saudi Arabia
BSc in Electrical Engineering (Second Honor)
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Graduated with a focus on signal processing, image processing, and AI fundamentals.
What I work with
Engineering
- 01MV secondary switchgear (RMU, metered RMU, LBS, autorecloser)
- 02Electrical schematics in SEE Electrical
- 03Bills of materials and product data in SAP
- 04Utility specifications and IEC 62271
Software
- 01Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis
- 02React, TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind
- 03Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Expo
- 04GitHub Actions CI/CD, Docker
AI
- 01LLM tooling and agents
- 02OCR and document processing
- 03PyTorch, computer vision, self-supervised learning
- 04Signal processing