Summary
Zaim Awang is a seasoned reservoir engineer-turned-founder with 28 years of technical and leadership experience across oil and gas operations, field development planning, and applied AI. As CEO of AiSara and a consultant algorithmist, he combines deep reservoir simulation, uncertainty management and EOR expertise with patent-pending AI innovation to tackle subsurface problems and commercial solutions. His career spans Shell, Maersk Oil Qatar, Petroleum Development Oman and others, where he led giant waterfloods, polymer flood planning and complex history matching for clastic and carbonate fields. A UT Austin petroleum engineering graduate and former Shell “Olympic 100” selectee, he is also an educator—authoring courses on reservoir physics and practical simulation—and enjoys mentoring junior engineers. Notably, he pivoted decades of field experience into AI-driven modeling and software R&D, bridging domain knowledge with algorithmic productization.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Petroleum Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Petroleum Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Malay, Arabic