I'm Hamza Farooq — building enterprise AI agents at Traversaal.ai and helping engineers and leaders bridge the gap between AI hype and production reality.
- 🏢 CEO & Founder — Traversaal.ai, enterprise AI agents (18-person global team)
- 🎓 Adjunct Professor — Stanford Continuing Studies, UCLA, University of Minnesota
- 📚 Course Instructor — 4+ courses, 1,500+ students on Maven
- ✍️ Newsletter — The Production Gap · 15K+ subscribers
- 🎤 Speaker — International conferences on AI, LLMs, and enterprise ML
- 🔬 Research — NLP, LLMs, Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems
- 🏛️ Former — Senior Research Manager at Google and Walmart Labs (15+ years in ML)
| Project | What |
|---|---|
| Traversaal.ai | Scalable, customizable enterprise AI agents |
| The Production Gap | Weekly AI newsletter — from research to production |
| Maven Courses | Advanced LLMs · Multi-Agent Systems · ML System Design · LLM Applications |
| Free Courses | Self-paced AI courses via Traversaal Academy |
| ALIF Project | Urdu language model addressing linguistic inequities in AI |
- A 3 minute peek into what our FDEs built · 2026-10-28
- Explainer Video Series: Why is our self-hosted LLM fast in the pilot, but slow in production? · 2026-10-23
- The hype of Jev Explained: A Deep dive and What Is a Decision Model AI? · 2026-09-23
- Voice Agents: A deep dive · 2026-07-27
- Full Stack Engineering for Product Managers · 2026-06-26
| Repo | Stars | What |
|---|---|---|
| building-llm-applications-from-scratch |  |
Build LLM-powered apps end-to-end — RAG, agents, eval, deployment |
| advanced-llms-course |  |
Advanced LLM techniques: fine-tuning, RLHF, alignment, inference |
| multi-agent-course |  |
Multi-agent systems with LangGraph, CrewAI, and custom frameworks |
| claude-code-starter |  |
Starter kit for AI-assisted development with Claude Code |
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