#01AI & agents2026Team
Rabt
Personal AI agent on his laptop: builds spreadsheets, edits PDFs, makes pictures, talks back, asks first.
- Local 9B LLM
- faster-whisper
- Kokoro TTS
- FastAPI
Awaiz Ahmed
Software engineer at EDGE, leading Kanban Studios. He builds AI, robots, digital twins and games, and takes them to competitions.
- Software Engineer · EDGE
- Leading Kanban Studios
- Global AI Delegate
- Google Certified Innovator
129 builds · closest is most complex · drag to spin
AI Everything Abu Dhabi Hackathon1st placeCyberthorn 20263rd placeAI Microfilm Challenge · Dubai 2026best film awardINSPIRE ’26 · Arduino UNO Q Hackathon1st placeOriane × Replit Hackathon1st placeReplit × IEC Buildathon1st placeSafe AI Cup 20262nd placeUniversities Hackathon: Farm to Market2nd placeHult Prize 2026, university roundwinnerc0mpiled-2 UAE Hackathon3rd placeHeritage Innovation Hackathon1st placeNASA Space Apps Challenge Dubai 2025most promising ideaEDGE Industry Challenge 20251st placeSmart Health Hackathon1st placeDigital Transformation Hackathon3rd placeCTRL Game Jam1st placeUAE Game Makers · Game Jam 2024best overall game
RIGHT NOW
Six roles, one builder.
- EDGE · BRIDGE · since Nov 2025
Software Engineer, Industry 5.0 & Emerging Technologies
Software for intelligent digital-twin systems, after an automation traineeship on a UAE-built ASRS.
- Kanban Studios
Leading the studio
Software and AI for UAE businesses, plus Team Kanban, its hackathon squad.
Meet Team Kanban - Al Ain University · since 2023
BSc Software Engineering · Undergraduate researcher
Requirements engineering and edge AI research, two IEEE papers in 2026.
- Global Alliance for AI · since Jun 2026
Global AI Delegate to the UAE
Promotes responsible, human-centred AI across government, industry and academia.
- Google Developer Groups Abu Dhabi · since 2026
Organiser
Part of the team behind DevFest Abu Dhabi 2026.
- Google for Education · since 2025
Certified Innovator (VIA26) · Certified Trainer
Also Certified Educator Levels 1 and 2 and Gemini Certified Educator.
129 BUILDS · RANKED
Every build, ranked by complexity.
Scored on scope, difficulty, effort and proof. The hardest sit at the top.
How the score works +−
- Scope · 30 - how many real parts are built and wired together
- Difficulty · 30 - robotics, vision, 3D engines, agents, twins
- Effort · 25 - commits, docs, tests and modules
- Proof · 15 - live, awarded, published or shipped
129 builds, most complex first
Flagship#01–10
The ten hardest builds.
#01
#02
#03AI & agents2026
Kanban Agents
No-code 3D office playground for designing and running Gemini-powered agent teams.
- Three.js
- WebGPU
- React Flow
- Gemini
#04Products & platforms2026
kanbanstudios.ae
This site: 70+ pages, three.js models and a WebGPU agent world, on Cloudflare.
- Next.js
- Three.js
- WebGPU
- Cloudflare Workers
#05AI & agents2026Team
IntentGate Z
Gateway on IBM LinuxONE that checks AI agent actions against signed human intent.
IBM Z Datathon 2026- IBM LinuxONE
- Telum NNPA
- React
- Three.js
#06Robotics & industry2026
AURO/GEN A30
Cyber-resilient emergency drone platform with a Three.js twin and signed commands.
3rd · Cyberthorn 2026- Three.js
- Digital twin
- Telemetry security
- Grok
#07Games2026
Last Horizon
Browser life-and-crime sandbox where each hour of play is a year of life.
- Three.js
- TypeScript
- Rapier
- recast-navigation
#083D, XR & twins2026Team
UnderGrid
3D twin of downtown Abu Dhabi where AI agents catch failing pipes early.
1st · AI Everything Abu Dhabi Hackathon 2026- Three.js
- AI agents
- Digital twin
#09
#10Climate & space2026Team
BlueBan 813
Sentinel-2 early-warning system for water-quality anomalies near UAE desalination intakes.
Arab Youth Space Hackathon 2026- Python
- Sentinel-2 / Sentinel-3
- FastAPI
- Jupyter
Advanced#11–40
Full systems, most of them live or award-winning.
#113D, XR & twins2026
Encirra
Digital twin that simulates cascading power-water failures and verifies safer urban recovery plans.
IEEE NEECON 2026 Innovation Challenge- pandapower
- EPANET (WNTR)
- React Three Fiber
#12Games2026
SKYFOLD
Nonviolent puzzle-adventure for PC and Quest 3 VR about repairing a miniature coastal city.
- Unity 6 (URP)
- OpenXR
- C#
#13
#14Robotics & industry2026Team
Rafeeq
Autonomous TIAGo Pro robot that finds, grasps and delivers library books in simulation.
Emirates Robotics Competition 2026- ROS 2
- TIAGo Pro
- Python
#15Robotics & industry2026
DAPPER
Deadline-aware scheduler placing each robot perception frame on board, at the edge or both.
Paper · IEEE FMEC 2026- Python
- Edge offloading
- pytest
#16Games2026
KANG BANG
Browser-based multiplayer sci-fi FPS with an authoritative server, bots and progression.
- Three.js
- TypeScript
- Node.js
#17Products & platforms2026
Raa'i
Arabic-first offline companion turning spoken notes into vet-ready animal records.
Tatweer Hackathon 2026- Next.js
- Groq
- Offline PWA
#18Robotics & industry2025Team
FalconPatrol AI
Spot robot patrol that detects intruders in restricted areas with YOLOv5.
1st · EDGE Industry Challenge 2025- Boston Dynamics Spot SDK
- YOLOv5
- FastAPI
#193D, XR & twins2026Team
AeroHalo
Predictive airside safety: flags vehicle-to-aircraft collisions seconds before they happen.
1st · INSPIRE ’26, University Track- React Three Fiber
- Edge AI
- Computer vision
#20Health2026Team
BeBTR
On-device computer vision that coaches exercise form and flags injury risk live.
1st · Smart Health Hackathon 2025- Computer vision
- Pose estimation
- On-device AI
#21AI & agents2026Team
Mizan
Governed AI case officer for housing-loan arrears, with policy rules and an audit trail.
AgentEra AI Hackathon 2026- LLM agents
- Document AI
- Policy engine
#22Robotics & industry2026
Spot VR
Quest 2 VR teleoperation stack for Boston Dynamics Spot with a Python safety bridge.
- Unity
- OpenXR
- Python
#23AI & agents2026
KanRoute
Consolidates Dubai last-mile deliveries into fewer vans and proves each plan feasible.
- Next.js
- Convex
- Devin
#24Robotics & industry2025
BRIDGE SPOT AI
Inspection system and audio assistant built for a Boston Dynamics Spot robot.
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Computer vision
- Voice AI
#25Mobile apps2025Team
XPBridge
Micro-internship app pairing UAE students with startup missions, live on Google Play.
Top 170 of 4,710 · Create Apps Championship- Flutter
- Supabase
- AI interviews
#26Products & platforms2026
Kanban Staff OS
Internal company OS for people, KPIs, tasks, projects, sales and documents.
- TypeScript
- Dashboards
- Role control
#27
#28
#29Products & platforms2026Team
DeedFlow
Workflow platform guiding fractional and tokenised property deals from compliance to post-close automation.
3rd · c0mpiled-2 UAE Hackathon 2026- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Prisma
#30Health2026
CardioTwin
Explainable 3D heart twin estimating per-artery coronary risk from routine clinical data.
- React
- Three.js
- FastAPI
#31Robotics & industry2026
JARVIS QC Station
Offline quality-control station combining computer vision, voice and the Falcon 3 LLM.
- Computer vision
- Falcon 3
- Voice
#32Games2026
Kanban Slicer
One-swipe 3D physics slicing puzzle for Android with runtime mesh cutting.
- Flutter
- Dart
- Custom 3D renderer
#33AI & agents2026Team
TraceGuard
Research code for detecting risky decisions in RAG agent workflows using execution traces.
- Python
- Anthropic Claude API
- RAG
#34Climate & space2025Team
Meteor Madness
Real-time 3D near-Earth object tracker with impact simulation on NASA data.
Most Promising Idea · NASA Space Apps Dubai 2025- React Three Fiber
- Three.js
- NASA NEO API
#35Products & platforms2026Team
SooqRoot
Procurement platform turning buyer demand into pre-harvest commitments across UAE farms.
2nd · Farm to Market Innovation Sprint 2026- React
- TypeScript
- Vite
#363D, XR & twins2026
DISSECT
A hall of physics-driven machines you can take apart in the browser.
- Three.js
- Physics
#37Climate & space2026
EcoLens AI
AI recycling kiosk for schools that turns each disposal into a quick quiz.
Winner · Hult Prize 2026 university round- Flutter
- Dart
- NFC/RFID
#38AI & agents2025Team
Guide Bot
Indoor guide robot whose voice-driven 3D avatar answers visitors through an LLM.
- Three.js
- OpenAI GPT-4o-mini
- Web Speech API
#39
#40Products & platforms2026
BRIDGE Workspace
Team workspace and productivity foundation with built-in AI assistance.
- TypeScript
- AI assistant
Solid#41–80
Working products, games and research code.
#41
#423D, XR & twins2026
BRIDGE CBRN Command Center
CBRN situational-awareness console with a 3D digital twin, synthetic robot feeds and incident workflow.
#43Games2026
Chain Reaction City
One-tap 3D physics puzzle game for Android with an in-house renderer and physics engine.
#44
#45
#46
#47
#48
#49
#50
#51AI & agents2026Team
KanbanCTRL
Agentic heat-operations planner turning hyperlocal temperature data into crew schedules.
FortyGuard Hackathon ’26
#52
#53
#54AI & agents2025Team
DocuMaster
AI platform validating bulk structured and unstructured data for Dubai Customs.
3rd · Zayed University AI Hackathon 2025
#55
#56Products & platforms2026
QMS Audit Control
Desktop app for internal quality audits, with a local LLM drafting working papers.
#57
#58Games2026
Magnet Rush
One-finger 3D Android action game where a magnetic core attracts and launches metal.
#59Health2025
AI Triage
Arabic-first triage agent routing cases to ED or outpatient behind a safety layer.
#60Games2025
Heritage Pearl Quest 3D
First-person Three.js browser game about Emirati pearling heritage, with story and free-dive modes.
1st · AAU × Sandooq Al Watan Heritage Hackathon 2025
#61Games2024Team
Falcon’s Odyssey
Fly a falcon over UAE deserts, landmarks and cities.
Best Overall Game · UAE Game Makers 2024
#62
#63Robotics & industry2026
TracePilot
Copilot guiding CNC first-piece inspections with AI spec extraction and traceability reports.
#64AI & agents2026
Hackathon Evaluator
AI-assisted judging platform that scores hackathon proposals and code with human review.
#65Dev tools2026
Kanban Motion
Claude Code skill that turns projects or scripts into voice-synced motion graphics videos.
#66
#67Web & learning2026
Tamkeen Tutor
Skills-gap analyser and AI tutor that builds 7-day learning paths for UAE youth.
Tamkeen 5.0 Hackathon
#68
#69
#703D, XR & twins2026
P.E.K.A.
3D digital twin of city utilities that detects simulated water-main leaks and plans repairs.
#71Robotics & industry2026
Fleet Console
Control console unifying simulated mixed-vendor mobile robot fleets with dispatch and audit trails.
#72
#73
#74Products & platforms2025Team
Nawras
AI goal planner linking users to Gargash’s automotive, finance and property services.
AI Hackathon UAE 2025
#75AI & agents2026
Tanseeq
Produces advisory conditions briefs on proposed Abu Dhabi developments for human review committees.
#76Games2025Team
Dubai Drift
Arcade racer through Dubai that jumps between Old and Future Dubai.
#77
#78
#79
#80Foundations#81–129
Experiments, client sites and where it started.
- #81
StudyBud2025AI study planner that personalises schedules and tracks progress.Imagine Cup UAE 2025 - #82
Leo’s Adventure2024Exploration game inspired by Ibn Battuta: collect scrolls, uncover the story. - #83
EDGE Voice Chat2025Custom web software for a Double Robotics robot, using the GPT API. - #84
Bubba Form2025Balance hot and cold bubbles to terraform a shifting world. - #85
Food Guardians2025Godot game built for the UAE Game Makers competition, with in-game dialogue.UAE Game Makers 2025 - #86
Kanban Tools2026Browser-only file converter and compressor for images, PDFs, video, audio and ZIPs. - #87
BRIDGE Vault2026Scan business cards into enriched, managed leads. - #88
NOTHING HAPPENED.2026Cinematic road-safety short about one missed exit and two possible futures. - #89
LeanAR2025Web app that turns configured QR codes into on-screen AR info panels. - #90
ROS 2 Workspace2025ROS 2 workspace for robotics development and experiments. - #91
SIC AI Classification2025Streamlit app classifying images with a MobileNetV2 model, built as a SIC capstone. - #92
ScaleSouk2025Marketplace where MENA startups meet capital through verified listings. - #93
The Leap Pakistan2026Website for The Leap Pakistan with contact and event-registration APIs on Prisma. - #94
3DMG2026Web front end and backend around TripoSR for single-image 3D model generation. - #95
BRIDGE Part-Time Recruiting Portal2026Part-time recruiting portal where applicants submit profiles and BRIDGE reviewers update statuses. - #96
BRIDGE PHP Replica2026Plain-PHP rebuild of the BRIDGE website, pre-rendered to static pages for Vercel. - #97
Freelance web studio site2025Conversion-first portfolio for landing pages, business sites and web apps. - #98
n8n Medical AI Workflow Platform2025n8n workflow that triages patient symptoms using MedLLaMA3 running locally on Ollama. - #99
BridgePilot2026Hackathon demo forecasting queue waits at Yas Island venues using synthetic crowd data. - #100
FB Design UAE2026Website for an Abu Dhabi interior design and fit-out firm. - #101
Kanban AI Leads2026React dashboard demo of a lead-generation agent that scouts UAE project awards. - #102
Mission 20602025Python project reverse engineering Boston Dynamics' Spot robot, with a UI and YOLOv8. - #103
Bridgified2026Landing site for a full-service digital agency. - #104
Eidi Games2026Family games for Eid, 2026 edition. - #105
OTF Emergency Control2026Single-page command-centre prototype for the OTF/AAU emergency assistant concept, using mock data. - #106
Certificate Generator2025Automated certificate-generation workflows. - #107
Portfolio (2024)2024Personal portfolio site presenting Awaiz Ahmed's skills, projects and contact details. - #108
Neap Tide Forecasts2026Concept tide and swell landing page animated entirely with motion-anything recipes. - #109
Edge Dog2025Custom software for the Boston Dynamics Spot robot, built on the Spot SDK. - #110
mapit2025Wayfinding kiosk and mobile prototype for EDGE LIF: search, map and directions. - #111
UAE Game Jam car game2025Unity car game project built for a UAE game jam. - #112
LEducation2026TypeScript web app built with Vite and Tailwind CSS, live on Vercel. - #113
Space Travel Platform2025Flask web app for scheduling and booking space travel experiences. - #114
42AD2025C coursework from the 42 programme: libft, ft_printf and get_next_line. - #115
Industry 5.02026Static multi-page website with home, demo and contact pages. - #116
Bridge Scan2026Python web prototype with frontend, backend and an image-generation script. - #117
RI2026React, TypeScript and Vite web app with Tailwind CSS, deployed on Vercel. - #118
Scroll2026TypeScript web project built with Cloudflare Wrangler tooling. - #119
Alert Svelte2025Alert app prototype with a Svelte front end and separate backend. - #120
Bridge AI2025Web page that loads a 3D avatar model for the Bridge AI project. - #121
LPM2026TypeScript web app scaffolded with Vite and Tailwind CSS. - #122
Awaiz Clothing2024Landing page for a fictional clothing store with product listings and a newsletter form. - #123
AF2026React, TypeScript and Tailwind website deployed on Vercel. - #124
Etiva Technologies2026Landing site for an automation-platform SaaS brand. - #125
Tech Support Hub2024Responsive website for an IT support provider, built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. - #126
Digit Classification2025Handwritten digit classifiers comparing logistic regression with a simple MNIST neural network. - #127
Planner2026Single-page HTML planner with a Python script that generates a tracker. - #128
SEC HMI2025Settings page for an HMI, built with SvelteKit and TypeScript. - #129
Showcase2025React showcase app scaffolded with Create React App and styled with Tailwind CSS.
THE RECORD
22 wins by his count. 17 on file.
11 first places among them, each traced to a post, an honour or a photograph.
- Oct 2026
AI Microfilm Challenge · Dubai 2026
Best Film Award
UAE AI Builder Community and Vidu AI
No Rush - Sep 2026
INSPIRE ’26 · Arduino UNO Q Hackathon
1st place · University Track, 100+ teams
IEEE SSCS AUS Chapter, American University of Sharjah
AeroHalo - Jun 2026
Replit × IEC Buildathon
1st place · AED 1,200 in Replit credits
MBZUAI Incubation and Entrepreneurship Center
Starkz AI - Apr 2026
Universities Hackathon: Farm to Market
2nd place · AED 8,000
Ministry of Climate Change and Environment
SooqRoot - Feb 2026
c0mpiled-2 UAE Hackathon
3rd place · ~150 participants
Transpose Platform, at Yas Marina Circuit
DeedFlow - Nov 2025
Heritage Innovation Hackathon
1st place
Al Ain University and Sandooq Al Watan
Heritage Pearl Quest 3D - Nov 2025
NASA Space Apps Challenge Dubai 2025
Most Promising Idea · International nominee
Meteor Madness - Apr 2025
Smart Health Hackathon
1st place · AED 20,000
Department of Health – Abu Dhabi and startAD
BeBTR - Nov 2024
CTRL Game Jam
1st place · AED 30,000
Abu Dhabi Gaming
- Oct 2024
UAE Game Makers · Game Jam 2024
Best Overall Game
Endless Studios, with Tawazun Council and SPACE42
Falcon’s Odyssey
ALSO SHORTLISTED
- Top 16JetBrains × 42 Abu Dhabi Student Hackathon
- Top 12BitNBuild UAE by GDSC
- Certificate of Recognition3rd Youth Innovation Award, Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre
- FinalistGlobal Build Challenge, Bridge the Gap track
- Top 170 of 4,710Create Apps Championship, Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy
GAME JAMS · 10
Built against the jam clock.
From a falcon flight game to a VR horror story, most of them shipped in a weekend.
- Oct 2026SHIFT Game Jam 2026The Twelfth StampEntered
- Oct 2026GameForward GameJam: Mythos CollideThe Twelfth StampEntered
- Oct 2026Tencent × Arcade AI Hackathon, CambridgeSELF PLAYEntered
- Feb 2026Heritage Gameathon 2026DhikraParticipant
- Nov 2025Heritage Innovation HackathonHeritage Pearl Quest 3D1st place
- Oct 2025SHIFT Game Jam 2025Shaheen HuntCertificate for creativity
- Mar 2025UAE Game Makers 2025Food GuardiansEntered
- Feb 2025Endless Studios Game JamThree levels in under two hoursParticipant
- Nov 2024CTRL Game Jam1st place, AED 30,000
- Oct 2024UAE Game Makers · Game Jam 2024Falcon’s OdysseyBest Overall Game
RESEARCH
Two papers, both IEEE.
- Published · IEEE · HCARE 2026, co-located with RE’26 in Montréal
Keeping Engineers in the Loop: Explainable Requirement Defect Screening Across Software Requirements Specifications
9,165 requirements screened: 0.855 accuracy and 0.891 macro-F1, with explanations an engineer can check.
With Mohammad Umer, supervised by Dr Khubaib Amjad Alam
Read it - Accepted · IEEE FMEC 2026, the 11th Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing
DAPPER: Deadline-Aware Edge Perception for Mission-Critical Robots under Dynamic Network Conditions
Places each robot perception frame on board, at the edge or both, to meet its deadline.
With Dr Khubaib Amjad Alam
Read it
46 VIDEOS
Demos, trailers and films.
From his channel and the Kanban Studios channel. Tap one to play it here.
- THE TWELFTH STAMP | Psychological Horror Adventure in PC & VR | Team KanbanKanban StudiosOct 2026The Twelfth Stamp
- Team Kanban_IBM Z Datathon 2026 Project – IntentGate ZKanban StudiosOct 2026IntentGate Z
- SKYFOLD: The Last Flight | Trailer (in-engine)Kanban StudiosOct 2026SKYFOLD
- FANCY MOTION: Turn a Sentence into a Cinematic Motion Film | Wonders of ClaudeKanban StudiosOct 2026Fancy Motion
- DISSECT - Digital Interactive Simulation For Spatial Engineering & Component Topology | By AwaizKanban StudiosOct 2026DISSECT
- Digital Marshal | What Happens When Self-Driving Cars Face an Emergency?AwaizOct 2026Digital Marshal
- THE PROOF FACTORY - FULL FILM | 4 Scams. 1 Warning. | Team KanbanKanban StudiosOct 2026The Proof Factory
- JARVIS - AI-Powered Quality Control Station Using Falcon 3 LLMKanban StudiosOct 2026JARVIS QC Station
- NOTHING HAPPENED | The Accident That Never Happened - Cinematic Short FilmKanban StudiosOct 2026NOTHING HAPPENED.
IN THEIR WORDS
What his mentors wrote.
He was like a superstar for the team. Everyday proposing something new, implementing by himself, overcoming obstacles and adding value to the team.
Fernando Reimberg SyrioSenior Manager, EDGE · his mentor at EDGE BRIDGE If you need a person, highly technological, analytical that can solve your technological problems and implement the solutions hands on, Awaiz is your man.
Dr. Ignacio S. GatellManaged Awaiz directly As a team leader, he excelled in his role and consistently went above and beyond to deliver exceptional results.
Veroniki T.Managed Awaiz at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
BEYOND THE CODE
Not everything compiles.
- 2024Abu Dhabi Grand PrixLed the PSA 10 guest-services team at the 2024 Formula 1 race.
- 2024A Netflix film setProduction intern on Sikandar Ka Muqaddar at twofour54 Abu Dhabi.
- 2023–2025Abu Dhabi PoliceCommunity volunteer with the “We Are All Police” programme.
- 2021–2024Ministry of Community DevelopmentVolunteer at community events across the UAE.
LEARNING
Still studying.
BSc Software Engineering at Al Ain University, class of 2027, alongside 42 Abu Dhabi.
- MIT Professional Education · Applied Agentic AI (A)
- MIT Professional Education · No-Code AI & ML (A)
- Google Certified Innovator · VIA26
- Gemini Certified Educator
- Samsung Innovation Campus · AI & ML (1 of 120)
- Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
- Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900)
- AWS Solutions Architect diploma (93%)
- Harvard CS50x (A+)
- Harvard CS50 Cybersecurity (A+)
- 42 Abu Dhabi
- Dev3Pack Web3 Developer Fellow
WORK WITH AWAIZ
