Zulqarnain (Zul) Mehdi is a seasoned Cloud Architect, AI power user, and a Senior DevOps and Full Stack Engineer, with extensive leadership and consulting experience across Europe and the Middle East.
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I used to think AI was unreliable. I'd write a prompt, get something vaguely in the right direction, tweak it, get closer, tweak it again, and after three or four rounds I'd finally have something usable. It worked, but it was expensive and exhausting. The model
I once deleted a data team's critical workspace by accident. Their code, their artifacts, their months of work. Gone. They hadn't backed up anything. It was one of the most stressful moments of my career. But it was also one of the most formative. That incident
I built an AI system in 2019. Nobody called it AI back then. We called them "bots." The technology was different, the terminology was different, but the core idea was the same: give a machine the ability to reason, act, and learn from its environment. The system was
Two months old. That's how old I was when my parents put me on a plane from Karachi to Dubai. I never chose the city that would shape most of my life. But 32 years later, when I packed up my family and moved to Sweden, I realized
While building an agent to answer complex queries about my data, I noticed the first few drafts revealed something interesting - mainly the agent's thought process as a service provider than just a machine that's providing "precisely" what's asked of it. Note the
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Hey there! 👋 I'm Zul(qarnain) Mehdi, and I'm thrilled you've stumbled upon my little corner of the internet. A Journey Through Tech Over the past 14 years, I've had the incredible opportunity to wear quite a few hats in the tech world.