Who is this person?

I'm Abdur Rahman Sayeed. I build production AI systems by myself, from West New York, NJ · NYC metro, and I write down exactly how they work.

No computer science degree. I dropped out. I'm not going to bury that on this page or dress it up — it's load-bearing to the story. What I have instead is a list of things I've shipped and the ability to explain every decision in them. I decided a while ago that I'd rather be the person who can defend their architecture in a live conversation than the person with the right line on a résumé who freezes when you ask “why.”

What I build

Everything I make sits under Mnemix — a contextual intelligence orchestration platform. Memory, RAG, and BEAD: bi-temporal, evidence-anchored decisions, so a system can answer not just “what's true” but “what did we know, and when.”

• heycli — multi-agent orchestrator that holds source-of-truth and pushes prompts to Claude Code, Codex, and Aider.
• retention-lab — cohort retention analytics for AI products.
• dockerfile.ai — an AI-native Dockerfile generator.
• memory primitives — ingestion, retrieval, memory, auto-push.

How I actually work

AI-native, end to end. The models write a lot of the code; I own the architecture, the evals, the debugging, and the calls about what's worth building. I work across Claude Code, Codex, and custom agents, coordinated through my own orchestrator. I ship fast, I measure real costs and real latencies, and I write up the failures publicly because the failures are where the useful information is.

I'm self-deprecating about what breaks and confident about taste. Those aren't in tension — knowing what's broken is how you develop the taste.

What I'm aiming at

I want to be an Applied AI Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or AI Systems Architect at a frontier lab — OpenAI or Anthropic specifically. I think in systems and user outcomes, not model metrics. I want to work in the layer that turns research and model potential into systems that actually work for people. That's already what I do alone at 2am; I'd rather do it with a team pointed at the frontier.