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Architect · Builder — Singapore

Hi, I’m Suhail. I design, build and run AI, cloud and data platforms.

Architecture first, then code, then evals to check it works. 10+ years across infrastructure, cloud & data.

01 / Featured Engineering

Recent builds.

Each card has the key design decision, straight from the repo’s README.

EMBER — weather-aware fire triage cover
Hackathon · AI Builder Cup 2026

EMBER — weather-aware fire triage

Bahasa-first AI fire commander for village brigades during Southeast Asian haze fires: ranks satellite detections by spread risk, with a volunteer app and supervisor console. Submitted; awaiting results.

Design: Agents fuse reports from many phones into one shared incident; a human supervisor approves every high-stakes call, and the WITHDRAW-upwind safety rule is deterministic code, not model output.

Gemini LiveADKCloud RunFirestore
LakeShift — PL/SQL to Snowflake, proven cover
Hackathon · Submitted

LakeShift — PL/SQL to Snowflake, proven

Translates legacy Oracle PL/SQL to Snowflake SQL with NVIDIA Nemotron on Nebius Token Factory, then proves every result row by row. On the recorded run: 6/6 objects proven equal, 5,685 rows compared. Nebius x NVIDIA hackathon; submitted.

Design: Planner → parallel Nemotron Nano translators → a verifier that diffs Oracle vs Snowflake row by row; failures go to a docs-only researcher and a fixer that escalates Nano, then Super, then Ultra until the verifier passes.

NemotronNebiusSnowflakeOracle
Agentic Procurement — agents that negotiate and pay cover
Hackathon · Building

Agentic Procurement — agents that negotiate and pay

A buyer agent negotiates with seller agents and pays on PayPal: agentic procurement and payables for small businesses. PayPal AI Hackathon; building, submissions close Nov 12.

Design: Agents negotiate, but money moves through PayPal authorize-then-capture: funds are held on agreement and captured only once the deal is confirmed, so an agent never pays without a settled order.

TypeScriptPayPalAgents
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Write-up · Read it →

Fraud policy copilot

What you can build with Snowflake CoCo CLI + Cortex: flagged transaction in, policy-cited risk decision, fraud-ring map, case and native alert trail out.

Design: Streamlit in Snowflake: transaction id → customer context → rule matches → risk score with policy citations, then a case and a native Snowflake alert trail.

SnowflakeCoCo CLIPython

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What I do

Three domains, one builder.

01

AI & Agents

  • Azure AI Foundry gateway
  • AI agents & MCP tools
  • LLM routing (llm-auto-router)
  • RAG & retrieval
  • Evals & operational readiness
02

Cloud Platforms

  • Azure & AWS architectures
  • Hub-and-Spoke landing zones
  • Terraform & Bicep IaC
  • Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD
  • Kubernetes, observability & cloud security
03

Data Platforms

  • Databricks
  • Snowflake & Cortex
  • Sigma
  • AI for analytics & operational insights
  • PL/SQL → Snowflake migration (LakeShift)
Hello, builder

I sketch the architecture first, then build it, then measure whether it actually works.

This is where I share what I’m designing, building, breaking and learning: open-source labs, hackathon builds, and notes for fellow tinkerers.

02 / Playground

AI that ships. Poke at it.

A tiny terminal. Type help, or try router explain this stack trace.

suhail@savvysuhail: ~

Demo only: runs in your browser, no backend, no API keys. router picks a tier with simple keyword rules — the real llm-auto-router uses an LLM classifier.

03 / Hackathons

Where I build under a deadline.

Submitted · awaiting results

Google Cloud AI Builder Cup 2026

Google Cloud · Hack2skill · submitted 18 Oct 2026 · evaluation 19 Oct – 6 Nov. Project: EMBER — weather-aware fire triage

Submitted

Nebius x NVIDIA Global AI Hackathon

Nebius x NVIDIA · Devpost · Oct 2026. Project: LakeShift · Live demo

Building · due 12 Nov

PayPal AI Hackathon 2026

PayPal · Nov 2026 · submissions close 12 Nov. Project: Agentic Procurement

Participating

Future Health Digital Innovation Challenge

Registered Oct 2026

Completed (2024)

Databricks GenAI Hackathon 2024 — team REV-Engers

RAG experiments on Databricks: table setup, CSV/PDF document ingestion, a RAG chain agent model, and a model GUI. Notebooks on GitHub

See all hackathons →

04 / Writing

Notes from the build, for fellow builders.

Write-up · new

What you can build with Snowflake CoCo CLI (+ Cortex)

Fraud Policy Copilot: from a flagged transaction to a policy-cited decision, with the demo video.

LinkedIn · coming soon

Routing prompts to the cheapest capable model

How the LLM auto-router beat keyword rules. Project: LLM auto-router

Posts on LinkedIn; each links back to its project card here.

05 / About

I design AI systems, then build them until they actually run.

I started out automating VMs by the thousand, then moved into cloud migrations, landing zones and Terraform pipelines, then DevOps: Kubernetes, observability and lots of IaC. Now I design and build the AI layer. I care about evals and operational readiness more than demos. On my own time I design and build things to learn, starting from an architecture diagram. If it breaks, I write down why.

Running in production, at my day job

P-01

Azure AI Foundry AI gateway

An Azure AI Foundry gateway I designed and implemented to manage, monitor and govern AI solutions: one place for model access, oversight and control.

P-02

AI agents on Databricks, Snowflake & Sigma

AI agents I designed on the data platform that cut manual analysis for ops and business teams, plus AI for analytics and operational insights.

P-03

Readiness & responsible tooling

Evals, testing and operational readiness for AI apps; trying out Cursor and MCP with security and configuration first.

Scope only. Internal details and numbers stay at work.

06 / Certifications & career

Ten years from VMs to AI agents.

10+ years in infrastructure, cloud & data · 9 certifications · 21 public GitHub repos

Azure Solutions Architect ExpertDevOps Engineer ExpertAWS Solutions ArchitectTerraform Associate 004Databricks Data EngineerSnowPro CoreAI-103 Azure AI Apps and AgentsAzure AI FundamentalsOCI Architect Associate

Full career path →

07 / Contact

Designing or building something similar?
Let’s swap notes.