Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · Available for select work

AbdulelahAlkhathami

I design and build intelligent products — where software, AI, and considered design meet. I turn messy, real-world problems into systems people actually use.

7 products shippedTop 30 · SDAIA × MicrosoftGoogle Cloud × KFUPMUniversity of Bisha
Portrait of Abdulelah Alkhathami
Abdulelah Alkhathamiعبدالإله الخثعمي

Selected work

A studio of one.Here is what I've built.

Each product began as a real problem in education, sustainability, or security — and became a working system. These are three of them.

ChatUBUniversity of Bisha
01Education AI · 2025

ChatUB

Local AI Academic Assistant

Every academic answer, grounded in the real regulations.

A local AI academic assistant for University of Bisha students, designed to answer questions based on official academic regulations, procedures, and documents.

Student questionNLP intentRetrieve official docsGrounded answer

Local-first

Runs on-prem for data privacy

Project Lead

Led the graduation team

Official sources

Grounded, not generic answers

Abdulelah's role — Project Leader

AlthilThermal comfort
02Sustainability · 2026

Althil

Urban Thermal Comfort Decision-Support Platform

Designing cooler cities, one shaded street at a time.

A decision-support platform for improving urban thermal comfort by helping planners identify effective shade canopy locations based on sun paths, heat exposure, and location data.

Location & sun dataBigQuery analysisVertex AI scoringShade recommendation

Google Cloud

Run · BigQuery · Vertex AI

KFUPM × GC

Intelligent Planet Hackathon

Cooling, not cost

Comfort without more energy

Abdulelah's role — Backend Developer & Cloud Architecture Contributor

Absher InsightRisk monitor
03AI Security · 2025

Absher Insight AI

Proactive Digital Security Platform

Security that predicts risk, instead of reacting to it.

An AI-driven proactive digital security concept designed to predict risks before incidents occur by analyzing behavioral patterns and anomalies.

Behavior signalsUEBA analyticsAnomaly detectionRisk score

Proactive

Predict risk before incidents

Privacy-by-design

Synthetic-data UEBA

Tuwaiq

Absher security hackathon

Abdulelah's role — AI Security Solution Contributor

How I build

A way of working, not a job title.

01

Context over hype

I start with the environment, not the model. The best system is the one that actually fits the place it serves.

02

Privacy by design

Trust is a feature. I default to local-first thinking and data practices that respect the people behind it.

03

Ship, then refine

An idea means nothing until it runs. I build working systems first, then make them sharper.

04

Details are the product

Craft compounds. The small decisions — wording, timing, spacing — are the ones people actually feel.

Range

One way of thinking, across very different problems.

From a classroom to a city's heat map to a government's security desk — the domain changes, the care doesn't.

Academic assistants and learning tools built around how an institution actually works — not generic answers.

What I believe

Anyone can add intelligence to a product. The part I care about is making it feel calm, trustworthy, and obvious so the person on the other side never has to think about the machine at all.

Let's build something worth remembering.

Hiring, collaborating, or just curious how something was made — I'd like to hear from you.