AI Technology Enabler FDE Cloud Security Operations
Abu Dhabi Dubai UAE India
Kunal is a Technology Enabler with hands-on experience building, deploying and operating at scale across Cloud and AI. He embeds with the business unit, finds the use case actually worth building, and carries it from pilot to production — most recently seven GenAI services taken live across Abu Dhabi Government, all demoed at GITEX 2025.
01 About
Kunal is a multi-cloud and AI certified solution architect with more than a decade of building behind him, currently an AI Technology Enabler and forward deployed engineer with the Federal Government in Abu Dhabi, and a founding member of its AI Factory team. Most of what he builds now is agentic — agents with real tool access, and the agent harness around them that decides whether they are dependable or merely impressive.
The job is forward deployed in the real sense: he sits with the department, works out which foundation-model use case survives contact with reality, and then builds, secures, ships and operates it. Seven flagship services went from pilot to production that way, spanning conversational assistants, contextual RAG platforms and workflow automation — and all seven were demoed at GITEX 2025.
Before AI took over the work, he spent a decade on cloud that has consequences: finance and licensed financial institutions, government, oil and gas, healthcare and AI imaging, public safety. Migrations that cannot drop a transaction, DR that gets tested for real, bills that quietly doubled. That grounding is why the AI systems he builds have audit logging, prompt filtering and data residency in them from the first commit rather than after the first incident.
02 Expertise
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03 Work
MVP to production, every time — not stuck at demo.
Government · GenAI
Conversational assistant built on Azure with RAG and agentic pipelines, taken from pilot to production and demoed at GITEX 2025 as part of a sovereign AI enablement programme.
Government · Platform
Founding core member. Identifying, validating and operationalising strategic foundation-model use cases across a government ecosystem — the pipeline that turns a department idea into a running service.
Kubernetes · vLLM
Scalable GPU-backed inference on Kubernetes with vLLM serving, model routing gateways and high-throughput deployment strategy, sized so that cost per token stays defensible.
Confidential client · AI Platform
End-to-end GenAI platform: model deployment and inferencing, AIOps and model observability, and orchestration of H100 and H200 fleets sized so cost per token stays defensible under production load.
Real-time · Speech
Streaming voice assistants integrating Whisper ASR, Hamsa and Azure Speech with conversational orchestration, built for latency low enough to feel like a conversation.
Healthcare · AI Imaging
Teleradiology pipeline handling DICOM ingest through to reporting, built to keep patient data resident and auditable end to end.
Finance · LFI · Oil & Gas
Datacentre-to-cloud migrations for licensed financial institutions and industrial operators, where the recovery objective is contractual and the DR posture is exercised on a schedule rather than assumed.
04 Certifications
Generative AI Developer AWS · Professional — verify on Credly 
AI Practitioner AWS · Foundational — verify on Credly 
Solutions Architect AWS · Professional — verify on Credly 
Security AWS · Specialty — verify on Credly 
Solutions Architect AWS · Associate — verify on Credly 
SysOps Administrator AWS · Associate — verify on Credly 
Azure Solutions Architect Microsoft · Expert Azure DevOps Engineer Microsoft · Expert 
Azure AI Engineer Microsoft · Associate Azure Administrator Microsoft · Associate 
Terraform Associate HashiCorp · 003 — verify on Credly 
Multicloud Network Associate Aviatrix · MCNA — verify on Credly 05 Testimony
Unedited recommendations from the people who worked alongside the delivery.
6 recommendations
He brings a rare combination of deep technical expertise and strong architectural thinking. What sets him apart is his focus on building technology the right way — with attention to governance, security, reliability, and long-term sustainability, not just quick wins.
Kunal is extremely knowledgeable and consistently provided support whenever we faced challenges with AKS. His guidance made a significant difference, especially during complex or time-sensitive situations. What stood out the most was his calm approach and clear communication.
Kunal was instrumental in delivering scalable, reliable AWS solutions tailored to our customers. His technical depth combined with a collaborative spirit made complex deployments feel seamless. Kunal’s calm under pressure and proactive communication earned our full trust.
Kunal’s proficiency in AWS services and Docker/Kubernetes are un-parallel to anyone I have ever worked with before. His technical expertise and problem-solving skills were invaluable, enabling us to overcome complex challenges and deliver outstanding results.
He played a crucial role in designing and implementing our AWS infrastructure, architecting scalable and efficient solutions that significantly improved our deployment processes and enhanced our overall system reliability. He was an invaluable asset to our organization.
I was particularly impressed by his technical skills and ability to handle even the toughest client. He goes beyond in solving customer problems and ensures that we meet customer expectations.
06 Writing
Long-form walkthroughs on the AWS and Kubernetes services people actually have to operate — the details the docs leave out.
20 articles
07 Contact
An AI use case that has stalled at pilot, a RAG system that is confidently wrong, inference costs that do not add up, or a cloud estate that needs to stop paging people. Short note is fine.