Muhammad Adnan Kamal

• 01

  Agentic AI systems

  Tool-calling agents for creative production and manufacturing files.

  • CR8 AI→
  • Cutting-file generator→

• 02

  RAG and enterprise retrieval

  RAG pipelines at CR8 AI; BERT and ElasticSearch semantic search at IntegriShield.

  • CR8 AI→
  • IntegriShield→

• 03

  Generative AI for creative and 3D production

  Print-ready brand creative and 3D retail displays for Unilever and Philips.

  • CR8 AI→
  • Philips brandPOS→

• 04

  AI for manufacturing

  Agents producing machine-ready DWG/DXF cutting files.

  • Cutting-file generator→

• 05

  High-performance systems

  C/C++ ad server at 1.5M+ requests/min; GPU video streaming for cloud gaming.

  • AdPad→
  • Cloud gaming→

• 06

  AI engineering leadership

  Owning the AI roadmap and a cross-functional team across enterprise client workstreams; technical authorship of R&D funding proposals with UK university partners.

  • CR8 AI→

• 07

  Physical AI foundations

  Sensors, data acquisition, closed-loop and motion control, machine vision and safety systems in the field: Robo-Vision, EDM retrofit, tensile machines, 100+ crane safety systems.

  • Robo-Vision→
  • Engineering roots→

• 2024–present/CR8 AI

  CR8 AI — Agentic creative platform for global brands

  I lead AI engineering for a hybrid SaaS and agentic AI platform that produces brand creative for Unilever, Philips and PepsiCo, from retrieval and agent workflows through to print-ready export.

  ClientsUnilever · Philips · PepsiCo

  • Agentic AI
  • RAG and retrieval
  • Generative AI
  • 3D and creative
  • Regulated compliance
  • Leadership
• 2024–present/CR8 AI

  Philips brandPOS — AI-driven in-store retail visualisation

  AI-driven visualisation of Philips point-of-sale in store, covering free-standing display units, planograms and 3D shelf models.

  ClientsPhilips

  • Generative AI
  • 3D and creative
• 2026/CR8 AIIn development

  AI cutting-file generator for sheet-metal fabrication

  An agentic, tool-calling AI application that turns a fabrication requirement into AutoCAD-compatible DWG/DXF cutting files for laser-cut sheet-metal parts.

  • AI for manufacturing
  • Agentic AI
• Aug 2023–Dec 2024/IntegriShield (Kansas City, remote)

  IntegriShield — AI for a compliance-monitoring platform

  Introduced AI into a compliance-monitoring platform, with BERT and ElasticSearch semantic search, a rule engine for hierarchical JSON, multi-provider SSO and email automation.

  • RAG and retrieval
  • Regulated compliance
• 2023–2025/NED University of Engineering and TechnologyResearch

  MS thesis — Vision-language AI to assist visually impaired people

  Research on BEiT-3, a 746-million-parameter vision-language model, answering 16 structured questions about an image and turning the answers into scene descriptions for visually impaired people.

  • Vision-language
  • Computer vision
  • Generative AI
• 2012–2015/Alsons Auto Parts (Alsons Group)

  2012 · Physical AI before it had a name

  Robo-Vision — Physical AI before it had a name

  An automatic meter-calibration robot that sees a printed dial and pointer through a USB camera, decides with fuzzy logic and acts by adjusting magnetic strength, in a closed loop.

  • Machine vision
  • Closed-loop control
  • Embedded
  • Computer vision
  • +1more

All work →

• 2015–2018/CentricSource

  AdPad — high-throughput ad server

  A multi-process, shared-memory C/C++ socket server on Linux handling 1.5M+ requests per minute on five 24-core servers, followed by a re-architecture of the eZanga.com PPC platform.

  • High performance
  • Distributed systems
  • Leadership
• 2016–2018/gamigo group (Gorillabox subsidiary)

  Cloud gaming streaming

  Stadia-style cloud gaming for gamigo group's Gorillabox subsidiary, with GPU-encoded H.265 video, Opus audio, a C# client and a WebRTC browser client.

  • Real-time media
  • High performance
  • Leadership
• 2018–2023/Tijdig (Pvt.) Ltd.

  Engineering consultancy

  Co-founded an engineering consultancy delivering MERN, .NET Core, Laravel, Shopify and WordPress work, alongside Linux C/C++ server and WebRTC projects.

  • Distributed systems
  • Real-time media
  • Leadership
• 2022–2023/Progatix

  Multi-tenant SaaS platform

  Scalable services and REST APIs for a multi-tenant SaaS platform on Angular, Node.js, MongoDB and Kafka, with architecture work and mentoring.

  • Distributed systems

• Quantum

  currently learning

  The q in makqai. Something I am learning, not something I claim.

• Astronomy

• Physics

• Mathematics

• Singing

• Travelling

  Northern Areas of Pakistan