Ali Salman
Web products, AI tools, and backend systems — from the interface people use to the infrastructure that keeps it running.
Selected work
Products, AI systems, and tools built to do real work.
I designed and shipped a wholesale storefront around how Hiper Abasto Royal actually sells: a Spanish catalogue, live offers, fast product discovery, and a clean path from browsing to assembling an order.
I turned a dermocosmetics catalogue into a guided shopping experience for Lebanon. Customers can start with a skin concern, narrow the products that fit, and move from a vague need to a practical routine.
I built and deployed an AI document pipeline for construction estimating. It reads project files, finds the information required by a Bill of Quantities, and produces a reviewable workbook instead of hours of repetitive entry.
I built an AI operations system for a Lebanese bakery-café chain. It ingests nine messy report exports and turns them into demand forecasts, staffing plans, product pairings, and answers grounded in the source data.
I built a deployment planner for machine-learning workloads. Given a model and its constraints, it estimates compute, memory, and latency needs, then recommends practical hardware instead of leaving teams to size infrastructure by trial and error.
Also built
More systems with a clear job to do.
Tracks shoppers across multiple cameras and turns edge video into store-level movement analytics.
Distributes Google Maps collection jobs across a compute cluster to gather large location datasets in parallel.
Answers course and policy questions with retrieval, then measures answer quality with RAGAS.
Experience
Research and engineering roles that sharpen how I build.
Edgebot
Designing research-agent benchmarks and multi-agent workflows for research automation.
Washington University in St. Louis
Working on safety filters for more robust model-driven action systems.
American University of Beirut · Almabani
Built and deployed a tool that fills Bill of Quantities spreadsheets from project documents.
Navasard AI
Integrated AI features into a production service under latency and reliability constraints.
American University of Beirut
Implemented gamma-ratio estimators for heavy-tailed data and built Python analysis tools.
American University of Beirut
Led tutorials, supported labs, reviewed code, and coached students through programming fundamentals.
About
I like owning the full path: finding the shape of a product, building the interface, wiring the backend, and putting it online. AI is one part of that toolkit, not the pitch.
I’m studying Computer Science and Engineering at the American University of Beirut, with a minor in Mathematics. I also organize AIcademy bootcamps and support workshops and hackathons with AUB’s IEEE Student Branch.
Python, C++, Java
PyTorch, scikit-learn, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, RAGAS
FastAPI, Temporal, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker
AWS, CloudFront, S3, Cloud Run