Faisal Al Wahedi
Growth Projects Technical Manager at ADNOC Group
United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolFaisal Al Wahedi is a seasoned engineering leader with 28 years of experience, currently serving as Growth Projects Technical Manager at ADNOC in the UAE. He has progressed through technical and managerial roles across process engineering and project leadership within ADNOC, demonstrating deep domain expertise in process optimization and delivery for large-scale energy projects. Faisal pairs a practical engineering background (BEng and a Master’s in Engineering Management) with hands-on technical contributions to open-source machine translation tooling—having improved Chinese sentence handling in the widely used Moses decoder. Known for bridging detailed technical work and strategic project execution, he excels at turning complex engineering requirements into operational outcomes. He brings an uncommon blend of long-term industrial process experience and an active interest in advanced AI topics, reflected in his self-described AGI-ist stance on GitHub.
28 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering at Higher Colleges of TechnologyMaster's degree, Engineering Management, Master's degree, Engineering Management at University of Wollongong in Dubai
Github Skills (9)
preprocessing10
perl10
scripting10
preprocess10
text-processing10
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
machine-translation9
unicode8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
moses-smt/mosesdecoder
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Moses, the machine translation system
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Faisal primarily focused on modifying the `split-sentences.perl` script, which is likely used for preprocessing text in the Moses machine translation system. They implemented preliminary support for Chinese, including handling Chinese sentence-ending markers and adjusting tokenization for ideographs. Additionally, the user addressed bugs related to sentence boundary detection and made cosmetic improvements, such as code cleanup and formatting.
i18nmachine-translationtranslationlocalizationmoses
opencog/vision
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Atomese wrappers around a subset of OpenCV
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pythonatomesesubsetimage-processingwrappers
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