Muhammed
Iqbal
Engineer at the intersection of AI, operations, and product — building internal tools that ship at scale.
19+ years from field IT to applied AI. I have taken manual tasks into AI workflows and ML pipelines tools people actually use. Creativity
Ops roots,
AI focus.
I started in field IT support and spent 19+ years working my way through enterprise systems engineering, site launches, and fleet management.
Somewhere along the way I started automating everything — first with scripts, then with ML pipelines, then with LLMs.
Now I build AI-powered tools that solve real operational problems: the kind that cut an hour of manual research down to a minute.
I'm interested in roles where engineering means shipping things that change how people work.
What I build
Applied AI and systems work — from agentic pipelines to hardware integrations. Click on any card below to read the case study deep-dives.
Auto Negotiator
A live LLM agent that negotiates hardware transfers between stores over a mocked email/calendar toolbelt — every reasoning step and drafted email is genuine inference against real Postgres state, never a scripted walkthrough.
Goal: Eliminate manual back-and-forth on routine hardware-shortage requests through autonomous, verifiable agent decision-making.
Target: zero human touchpoints on standard negotiation cycles
Buslari
A split-flap Solari board (Bus + Solari) reborn as a home dashboard — repurposing an old iPad to show live Singapore bus arrivals, prayer times, and messages texted in over Telegram.
Goal: Give a spare iPad a second life as a retro flip-board kiosk that earns its spot on the wall: live transit info alongside prayer/holiday panels and a personal message board the household can update remotely.
Adaptive LTA cache (20s–2min TTL) keeps 3 bus stops live without hammering rate limits
UWU Airwaves Photo Booth
A fictional premium-airline photobooth built for creative engagement with Airport Experience and Tourism Stakeholders — four experience modes (Photo Strip, Breath Fog, Video Call, Poem Receipt) that all share one procedurally generated boarding pass.
Goal: Ship an end-to-end creative kiosk: browser capture → Cloudinary/Redis session pipeline → a Gemini-personalized poem and Satori-rendered boarding pass → Zebra ZPL thermal print.
4 experience modes sharing one boarding-pass spine · barcode encodes a live retrieval URL scannable straight from a phone camera
OpenSesame
PDF extraction → SVG processing → 3D web rendering pipeline for real-time indoor asset fault reporting and wayfinding.
Goal: Give facility and operations teams live visibility into asset status without requiring on-site presence.
Operational visibility for global facility teams across multiple sites
Procurement Classifier
ML classification model integrated into a Flask web application delivering single-click procurement categorization.
Goal: Replace 4-window context switching with actionable ML intelligence surfaced directly in the workflow.
Deployed to 100+ operational stakeholders across APAC
EUCD Device Kiosks
End-to-end hardware-software systems integration powering self-service device check-in/check-out lifecycle management.
Goal: Remove IT dependency from routine device transactions and create an auditable device lifecycle record.
500 devices managed across 3 operational sites
Zebra Printer Fleet Tool
ZPL-based headless printing engine with fleet management dashboard providing single-pane remote control of hardware.
Goal: Eliminate manual label generation errors and give ops teams remote visibility and control of all printer hardware.
95% reduction in label generation time · Global rollout across APAC and ME regions
Tools and track record
AI / ML
Cloud & Infrastructure
Development
Operations
Career arc
Designed and deployed AI-enabled internal tooling rolled out across APAC and ME. Cut change-management research from 1 hour to under 1 minute. Won Amazon Global Hackathon, Boston 2025.
Led IT commissioning for Singapore's first Amazon Logistics delivery station in 60 days. Managed 500 devices and $70K budget. Co-created globally-launched Zebra printer fleet management tool.
Managed server estates on VMware and Hyper-V for government and commercial accounts. Developed PowerShell, VBScript, and batch automations compressing repetitive system tasks.
Field services for government accounts. Built scripting tools reducing ticket resolution time.
Provided rotating-shift desktop support for SingHealth Outram clinical environments. Configured wireless network rollouts for DBS and compliance systems for MAS and LTA.
Full-time National Service, Singapore.
Provided onsite technical support for enterprise infrastructure projects, contributing to large-scale IT deployments and network upgrades across multiple sites.
Certifications & training
Training
- Amazon Machine Learning University (MLU) — Applied AI/ML, 2025–2026
- Microsoft Azure Administrator, 2020
- DeepLearning.AI, Generative AI for Everyone (Andrrew Ng), 2024
Let's talk
I'm exploring senior engineering roles in Singapore — AI tooling, applied AI, or product-focused engineering where shipping matters.