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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)
Timeline

Work and education

  1. Jan 2026 – Present
    WorkRiyadh, 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.

  2. 2024 – 2025
    WorkDhahran, 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.

  3. 2024 – Present
    EducationDhahran, 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.

  4. 2023
    WorkDhahran, 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.

  5. 2018 – 2024
    EducationDhahran, 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.

Skills

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