I'm Yazan,halfway there
AI engineer from Makkah, and a software engineering student at Umm Al-Qura University. I work on a real team while I'm still studying, and this blog is what I see from there.
Why this blog
So you know what you'll find here
I write about
- The gap between university and the job market
- How work actually runs inside a team
- My mistakes, and how I tried to learn from them
I don't write about
- Expert advice. I'm still learning
- Things I read about but never tried myself
- Tutorials you can find anywhere else
And if I get something wrong in a post, the correction stays visible in the same post. I don't delete it.
The road so far
University
Software Engineering, Umm Al-Qura University
Projects you hand in, get a grade for, and throw away. I graduate in June 2027.
Summer 2025
KAUST Academy
Got into the AI program, then came back to it as a teaching assistant.
First real team
This is where what I write about began.
November 2025
Lucidya
My team and I worked on an analytics platform that more than 130 engineers use every day, and it became our graduation project.
August 2026
Mawhoob
Building the company's AI foundations.
Now
This blog
Writing while I'm still on the road, before I forget what the start looked like.