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.cta-row{margin-top:0;}\r\n\r\n<\/style>\r\n<\/head>\r\n<body id=\"top\">\r\n\r\n<header>\r\n <div class=\"nav\">\r\n <a class=\"brand\" href=\"#top\">Shahbaz Atta Awan<\/a>\r\n <button class=\"navtoggle\" id=\"navToggle\" aria-label=\"Menu\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"navLinks\">☰<\/button>\r\n <ul class=\"navlinks\" id=\"navLinks\">\r\n <li><a href=\"#profile\">Profile<\/a><\/li>\r\n <li><a href=\"#experience\">Experience<\/a><\/li>\r\n <li><a href=\"#ai\">AI & Data<\/a><\/li>\r\n <li><a href=\"#skills\">Skills<\/a><\/li>\r\n <li><a href=\"#publications\">Publications<\/a><\/li>\r\n <li><a href=\"#vision\">Vision 2030<\/a><\/li>\r\n <li><a href=\"#contact\">Contact<\/a><\/li>\r\n <\/ul>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/header>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"hero\">\r\n <div class=\"hero-bg\"><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"hero-fade\"><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"wrap\">\r\n <div class=\"badge\">Open to relocate \u2014 GCC<\/div>\r\n <h1 class=\"hero-name\">Shahbaz Atta Awan<br><span>Senior AI & Data Architect<\/span><\/h1>\r\n <p class=\"role\">20+ years building real-time mapping, routing, IoT and AI-driven data platforms \u2014 including three production systems for Hajj crowd and traffic management, and three years on-site in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"coords\">\r\n <span>21.4225\u00b0 N, 39.8262\u00b0 E \u2014 MAKKAH, KSA<\/span>\r\n <span>10+ YRS ON-SITE KSA<\/span>\r\n <span>3 IEEE PUBLICATIONS<\/span>\r\n <span>MILLIONS OF EVENTS \/ DAY<\/span>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"cta-row\">\r\n <a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/shahbazatta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Shahbaz-Atta-Awan-CV-2Page.pdf\" download>Download CV (PDF)<\/a>\r\n <a class=\"btn btn-ghost\" href=\"mailto:shahbaz.atta@gmail.com\">Email Me<\/a>\r\n <a class=\"btn btn-ghost\" href=\"https:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/shahbazatta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"stats\">\r\n <div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"num mono\">20+<\/div><div class=\"label\">Years in GIS & Big Data<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"num mono\">3<\/div><div class=\"label\">Hajj Platforms Shipped<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"num mono\">3<\/div><div class=\"label\">IEEE \/ IIT Publications<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"num mono\">AVP<\/div><div class=\"label\">Level Leadership, Systems Ltd<\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n<section id=\"profile\">\r\n <div class=\"wrap\">\r\n <div class=\"eyebrow\">Profile<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"sec-head\">\r\n <h2>Where geospatial engineering meets a million moving people.<\/h2>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"profile-grid\">\r\n <div>\r\n <p>I design and ship large-scale mapping, routing, IoT and real-time spatial analytics platforms. Most of that work has been done under real pressure \u2014 millions of GPS and IoT signals a day, and crowds measured in the millions rather than the thousands.<\/p>\r\n <p>Three years on-site in Makkah gave me a direct hand in <strong>Geo-Where<\/strong>, <strong>Masar IoT<\/strong> and <strong>Traffixity<\/strong> \u2014 production systems that compute real-time density heatmaps and reroute pilgrims away from congestion before it becomes dangerous. That work is written up in three peer-reviewed IEEE \/ IIT publications, and it's the reason Hajj and crowd-management problems still interest me more than almost anything else in this field.<\/p>\r\n <p>Since leaving Makkah I've carried the same PostGIS-and-streaming instincts into telecom, fleet, insurance and now AI-driven location intelligence \u2014 architecting the data lake and the routing layer, then handing the analyst or the end-user a map they can actually trust.<\/p>\r\n <div class=\"quote\">\"Computed real-time density heatmaps and dynamically rerouted pilgrims away from congestion zones.\" \u2014 from the Wadi Makkah \/ Umm Al Qura University work, 2013\u20132017<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"sidecard\">\r\n <h3>AT A GLANCE<\/h3>\r\n <dl>\r\n <dt>Languages<\/dt><dd>English, Urdu, Arabic (basic)<\/dd>\r\n <dt>KSA Experience<\/dt><dd>10+ years, incl. 3 yrs on-site Makkah<\/dd>\r\n <dt>Current Role<\/dt><dd>GIS Data Architect, First City AI<\/dd>\r\n <\/dl>\r\n <div class=\"visa-note\"><span class=\"dot\"><\/span>Oman Property Investor Visa \u2014 <strong>currently in progress<\/strong>, reinforcing an existing GCC base alongside KSA relocation readiness.<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n<section id=\"experience\">\r\n <div class=\"wrap\">\r\n <div class=\"eyebrow\">Experience<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"sec-head\">\r\n <h2>Seven roles, one thread: data on a map, moving in real time.<\/h2>\r\n <p>From Symbian call-routing to multi-tenant streaming platforms handling millions of events a day.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"timeline\">\r\n <div class=\"tl-item\">\r\n <div class=\"tl-meta\">MAR 2023 \u2013 PRESENT \u00b7 REMOTE<\/div>\r\n <h3>GIS Data Architect<\/h3>\r\n <div class=\"co\">First City AI<\/div>\r\n <ul>\r\n <li>Own end-to-end big-data and GIS architectural design, technology selection and engineering delivery for mapping, routing and location-intelligence products.<\/li>\r\n <li>Selected and implemented the Graphhopper + MapBox + GeoServer stack for the public-facing layer, and designed an Apache NiFi + Spark + MongoDB pipeline for the geospatial data lake.<\/li>\r\n <\/ul>\r\n <div class=\"tags\"><span class=\"tag\">Java<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Python<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Angular<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Spark<\/span><span class=\"tag\">MongoDB<\/span><span class=\"tag\">NiFi<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Graphhopper<\/span><span class=\"tag\">MapBox<\/span><span class=\"tag\">GeoServer<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"tl-item\">\r\n <div class=\"tl-meta\">AUG 2022 \u2013 MAR 2023 \u00b7 PAKISTAN<\/div>\r\n <h3>Assistant Vice President \u2014 Data Analytics<\/h3>\r\n <div class=\"co\">Systems Limited<\/div>\r\n <ul>\r\n <li>Led big-data architectural design and technology selection across the enterprise analytics practice.<\/li>\r\n <li>Architected a predictive insurance-claim platform on Databricks + Delta Lake + Snowflake, designing feature pipelines, Spark Streaming ingestion and the analyst-facing reporting layer.<\/li>\r\n <\/ul>\r\n <div class=\"tags\"><span class=\"tag\">Java<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Python<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Scala<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Spark Streaming<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Databricks<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Delta Lake<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Snowflake<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Redis<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"tl-item\">\r\n <div class=\"tl-meta\">FEB 2017 \u2013 AUG 2022 \u00b7 REMOTE \/ EU<\/div>\r\n <h3>Big Data Architect<\/h3>\r\n <div class=\"co\">Mi-C3 International<\/div>\r\n <ul>\r\n <li>Architected and shipped Mi-Stream, a multi-tenant real-time geospatial streaming platform handling millions of events a day for telecom, fleet and IoT customers.<\/li>\r\n <li>Designed the geospatial subsystem on PostGIS + pgRouting + GeoServer with REST-based tile-serving and routing APIs, cutting ingest latency significantly.<\/li>\r\n <\/ul>\r\n <div class=\"tags\"><span class=\"tag\">Java<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Spring<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Flink<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Databricks<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Druid<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Superset<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Hadoop<\/span><span class=\"tag\">RabbitMQ<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Elasticsearch<\/span><span class=\"tag\">PostGIS<\/span><span class=\"tag\">pgRouting<\/span><span class=\"tag\">OpenLayers<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"tl-item\">\r\n <div class=\"tl-meta\">NOV 2013 \u2013 JAN 2017 \u00b7 MAKKAH, KSA<\/div>\r\n <h3>Software Architect \/ Senior Researcher<\/h3>\r\n <div class=\"co\">Wadi Makkah \u2014 Umm Al Qura University<\/div>\r\n <ul>\r\n <li>Led architecture and development of Geo-Where, Masar IoT and Traffixity \u2014 three production geospatial platforms for Hajj traffic and crowd-density management at the holy sites.<\/li>\r\n <li>Designed a PostGIS + pgRouting backend ingesting GPS \/ IoT signals from wearable devices to compute real-time density heatmaps and reroute pilgrims away from congestion.<\/li>\r\n <li>Integrated Eclipse Kura on edge devices for IoT data acquisition, and built the GeoServer + OpenLayers visualisation layer adopted by traffic-control teams.<\/li>\r\n <li>Authored 3 IEEE \/ IIT peer-reviewed publications (PerCom 2016, IEEE Big Data 2016, IIT 2016).<\/li>\r\n <\/ul>\r\n <div class=\"tags\"><span class=\"tag\">Java<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Spring<\/span><span class=\"tag\">PostgreSQL<\/span><span class=\"tag\">PostGIS<\/span><span class=\"tag\">pgRouting<\/span><span class=\"tag\">MongoDB<\/span><span class=\"tag\">OpenLayers<\/span><span class=\"tag\">GeoServer<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Eclipse Kura<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Android<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"tl-item\">\r\n <div class=\"tl-meta\">JAN 2011 \u2013 JUN 2013 \u00b7 PAKISTAN<\/div>\r\n <h3>Team Lead \u2014 Mobile Applications<\/h3>\r\n <div class=\"co\">TuttiFruitti Labs<\/div>\r\n <ul>\r\n <li>Designed and developed interactive children's learning and gamified Android applications, working in Agile \/ Scrum.<\/li>\r\n <\/ul>\r\n <div class=\"tags\"><span class=\"tag\">Android SDK<\/span><span class=\"tag\">HTML<\/span><span class=\"tag\">JavaScript<\/span><span class=\"tag\">jQuery<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"tl-item\">\r\n <div class=\"tl-meta\">SEP 2006 \u2013 DEC 2010 \u00b7 PAKISTAN<\/div>\r\n <h3>Senior Software Development Engineer<\/h3>\r\n <div class=\"co\">Siemens<\/div>\r\n <ul>\r\n <li>Contributed to R&D and development of the Inflexion Platform UI Designer for Nucleus OS.<\/li>\r\n <li>Owned product integration, scripting and build management, and produced analysis reports for Nucleus OS components.<\/li>\r\n <\/ul>\r\n <div class=\"tags\"><span class=\"tag\">Eclipse PDE<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Ant<\/span><span class=\"tag\">MSBuild<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Java<\/span><span class=\"tag\">ANTLR<\/span><span class=\"tag\">xtUML<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"tl-item\">\r\n <div class=\"tl-meta\">APR 2005 \u2013 NOV 2005 \u00b7 DENMARK \/ PAKISTAN<\/div>\r\n <h3>Software Engineer<\/h3>\r\n <div class=\"co\">Vopium<\/div>\r\n <ul>\r\n <li>Designed and developed the Vopium call-redirector application on Symbian C++ and J2ME for cost-effective international voice calls.<\/li>\r\n <\/ul>\r\n <div class=\"tags\"><span class=\"tag\">Symbian C++<\/span><span class=\"tag\">J2ME<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n<section id=\"ai\">\r\n <div class=\"wrap\">\r\n <div class=\"eyebrow\">AI & Data Science<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"sec-head\">\r\n <h2>The geospatial stack now runs on machine learning, not just PostGIS.<\/h2>\r\n <p>Over the last few years the same real-time pipelines I built for Hajj crowds and telecom fleets have moved into predictive and AI-driven territory.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ai-panel\">\r\n <div class=\"ai-cols\">\r\n <div>\r\n <h4>Applied ML in production<\/h4>\r\n <p>At Systems Limited I architected a predictive insurance-claim platform on Databricks and Delta Lake, building the feature pipelines and Spark Streaming ingestion that feed the model layer. At First City AI, that same discipline now goes into AI-driven location-intelligence products \u2014 routing and mapping systems where the data lake feeds prediction, not just visualisation.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div>\r\n <h4>Formal grounding<\/h4>\r\n <p>Machine learning for data science and analytics, scalable machine learning, and MIT's work on big data and social physics, completed through edX and MIT's open courses \u2014 the theory behind the predictive pipelines I've since shipped.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div>\r\n <h4>Crowd analytics as an ML problem<\/h4>\r\n <p>The Hajj platforms \u2014 Geo-Where, Masar IoT and Traffixity \u2014 were early real-time, sensor-driven prediction systems in their own right: GPS and IoT signals in, density forecasts and rerouting decisions out. That's the same shape of problem AI-driven crowd and traffic modelling takes today.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div>\r\n <h4>Where this is heading<\/h4>\r\n <p>ML \/ predictive modelling now sits alongside GIS and streaming as a core competency \u2014 the natural next layer on top of 20 years of real-time spatial data, and squarely aligned with where Vision 2030 smart-city and Hajj-modernisation programmes are investing.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n<section id=\"skills\">\r\n <div class=\"wrap\">\r\n <div class=\"eyebrow\">Core Technical Competencies<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"sec-head\">\r\n <h2>The stack, by layer.<\/h2>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"skill-groups\">\r\n <div class=\"skill-group\">\r\n <h3>Geospatial \/ GIS<\/h3>\r\n <div class=\"items\">PostGIS \u00b7 pgRouting \u00b7 GeoServer \u00b7 MapBox \u00b7 Graphhopper \u00b7 OpenLayers \u00b7 OpenStreetMap (OSM) \u00b7 Geospatial Analytics \u00b7 Map Tiling \u00b7 Routing Engines<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"skill-group\">\r\n <h3>Big Data & Streaming<\/h3>\r\n <div class=\"items\">Apache Spark \u00b7 Spark Streaming \u00b7 Apache Flink \u00b7 Apache Kafka \u00b7 Apache NiFi \u00b7 Apache Druid \u00b7 Apache Superset \u00b7 Elasticsearch \u00b7 Logstash \u00b7 Hadoop \u00b7 MongoDB \u00b7 Redis \u00b7 RabbitMQ<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"skill-group\">\r\n <h3>Cloud Platforms<\/h3>\r\n <div class=\"items\">Databricks \u00b7 Delta Lake \u00b7 Snowflake \u00b7 Google Cloud Platform (GCP)<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"skill-group\">\r\n <h3>Languages & Frameworks<\/h3>\r\n <div class=\"items\">Java (20+ yrs) \u00b7 Python \u00b7 Scala \u00b7 C++ \u00b7 Spring \u00b7 Hibernate \u00b7 J2EE \u00b7 Angular \u00b7 Android SDK \/ NDK<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"skill-group\">\r\n <h3>DevOps & Tooling<\/h3>\r\n <div class=\"items\">Docker \u00b7 Kubernetes \u00b7 Git \u00b7 Bitbucket \u00b7 Jira \/ Confluence \u00b7 Eclipse Kura \u00b7 Linux<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"skill-group\">\r\n <h3>Domain & Leadership<\/h3>\r\n <div class=\"items\">Hajj \/ Umrah Crowd Management \u00b7 Smart City Architecture \u00b7 IoT Platforms \u00b7 Real-time Analytics \u00b7 ML \/ Predictive Modelling \u00b7 Agile \/ Scrum \u00b7 PMP \u00b7 AVP-level Leadership<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n<section id=\"publications\">\r\n <div class=\"wrap\">\r\n <div class=\"eyebrow\">Publications<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"sec-head\">\r\n <h2>IEEE \/ IIT \u2014 Hajj & smart transport.<\/h2>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"pub\">\r\n <div class=\"venue\">IEEE PERCOM WORKSHOPS, 2016<\/div>\r\n <p>Awan, S. A., et al. \u2014 \"A Software Platform for Smart Data-driven Intelligent Transport Applications.\"<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"pub\">\r\n <div class=\"venue\">IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIG DATA, 2016<\/div>\r\n <p>Awan, S. A., et al. \u2014 \"Spatial-Crowd: A Big Data Framework for Efficient Data Visualization.\"<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"pub\">\r\n <div class=\"venue\">12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIONS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IIT), 2016<\/div>\r\n <p>Awan, S. A., et al. \u2014 \"iCrowd \u2014 A Framework for Monitoring of (Identifiable) Crowd.\"<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n<section id=\"vision\">\r\n <div class=\"wrap\">\r\n <div class=\"eyebrow\">Saudi Vision 2030<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"sec-head\">\r\n <h2>Where 20 years of this work lines up with what's being built now.<\/h2>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"vision-grid\">\r\n <div class=\"vcard\">\r\n <h4>NEOM \/ The Line \/ Oxagon \/ Trojena<\/h4>\r\n <p>Smart-city architectures need real-time geospatial data lakes, routing engines, IoT ingestion and visualisation \u2014 the exact stack behind Mi-Stream and the Hajj platforms.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"vcard\">\r\n <h4>Riyadh Metro \/ Roshn \/ Diriyah \/ Qiddiya<\/h4>\r\n <p>Location-intelligence and crowd \/ traffic modelling transfer directly from the Hajj crowd-density and rerouting systems built at Wadi Makkah.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"vcard\">\r\n <h4>Ministry of Hajj & Umrah Modernisation<\/h4>\r\n <p>Three production platforms shipped, and three peer-reviewed publications, in exactly this domain.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"vcard\">\r\n <h4>Aramco \/ SABIC \/ Ma'aden<\/h4>\r\n <p>Upstream and asset geospatial digitisation aligns with the PostGIS + GeoServer + Spark stack led for 10+ years.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n<section id=\"education\">\r\n <div class=\"wrap\">\r\n <div class=\"eyebrow\">Education & Certifications<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"sec-head\">\r\n <h2>Formal degree, continuous top-up.<\/h2>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"edu-row\">\r\n <div><div class=\"deg\">Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS)<\/div><div class=\"school\">Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan<\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"edu-row\">\r\n <div><div class=\"deg\">DS102x \u2014 Machine Learning for Data Science & Analytics<\/div><div class=\"school\">edX<\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"edu-row\">\r\n <div><div class=\"deg\">CS190.1x \u2014 Scalable Machine Learning<\/div><div class=\"school\">edX<\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"edu-row\">\r\n <div><div class=\"deg\">Big Data & Social Physics<\/div><div class=\"school\">MIT<\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"edu-row\">\r\n <div><div class=\"deg\">MITx 21W.789x \u2014 Building Mobile Experiences<\/div><div class=\"school\">MIT<\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n<section id=\"contact\">\r\n <div class=\"wrap\">\r\n <div class=\"eyebrow\">Get In Touch<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"sec-head\">\r\n <h2>Open to Hajj, smart-city and geospatial roles across KSA & the GCC.<\/h2>\r\n <p>Open to opportunities across KSA and the wider GCC. Married, with an Omani Property Investor Visa currently in progress.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"contact-grid\">\r\n <ul class=\"contact-list\">\r\n <li><span class=\"k\">EMAIL<\/span><span class=\"v\"><a href=\"mailto:shahbaz.atta@gmail.com\">shahbaz.atta@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n <li><span class=\"k\">PHONE<\/span><span class=\"v\"><a href=\"tel:+923350414031\">+92 335 0414031<\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n <li><span class=\"k\">LINKEDIN<\/span><span class=\"v\"><a href=\"https:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/shahbazatta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">linkedin.com\/in\/shahbazatta<\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n <\/ul>\r\n <ul class=\"contact-list\">\r\n <li><span class=\"k\">STATUS<\/span><span class=\"v\">Open to relocate \u2014 GCC<\/span><\/li>\r\n <li><span class=\"k\">VISA<\/span><span class=\"v\">Oman Property Investor Visa \u2014 in progress<\/span><\/li>\r\n <li><span class=\"k\">LANGUAGES<\/span><span class=\"v\">English (fluent) \u00b7 Urdu (native) \u00b7 Arabic (basic)<\/span><\/li>\r\n <li><span class=\"k\">CV<\/span><span class=\"v\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shahbazatta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Shahbaz-Atta-Awan-CV-2Page.pdf\" download>Full CV (2-page PDF)<\/a>  \u00b7  <a href=\"https:\/\/shahbazatta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Shahbaz-Atta-Awan-CV-1Page.pdf\" download>1-page version<\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n <\/ul>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n<footer>\r\n <div class=\"wrap\">\r\n \u00a9 2026 Shahbaz Atta Awan \u00b7 Senior AI & Data Architect\r\n <div class=\"credit\">Powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lanetwelve.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.lanetwelve.com<\/a><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/footer>\r\n\r\n<!-- Floating WhatsApp + Chatbot -->\r\n<div class=\"fab-stack\">\r\n <button class=\"fab fab-chat\" id=\"chatToggle\" aria-label=\"Chat with assistant\">\r\n <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#0B0C0E\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M21 11.5a8.38 8.38 0 0 1-.9 3.8 8.5 8.5 0 0 1-7.6 4.7 8.38 8.38 0 0 1-3.8-.9L3 21l1.9-5.7a8.38 8.38 0 0 1-.9-3.8 8.5 8.5 0 0 1 4.7-7.6 8.38 8.38 0 0 1 3.8-.9h.5a8.48 8.48 0 0 1 8 8v.5z\"><\/path><\/svg>\r\n <\/button>\r\n <a class=\"fab fab-whatsapp\" href=\"https:\/\/wa.me\/923350414031?text=Hi%20Shahbaz%2C%20I%27d%20like%20to%20connect%20regarding%20a%20role.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Message on WhatsApp\">\r\n <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"#fff\"><path d=\"M12.04 2C6.58 2 2.13 6.45 2.13 11.91c0 1.75.46 3.39 1.26 4.81L2 22l5.42-1.36a9.87 9.87 0 0 0 4.62 1.17h.01c5.46 0 9.9-4.45 9.9-9.91 0-2.64-1.03-5.13-2.9-7C17.18 3.03 14.68 2 12.04 2zm0 18.1h-.01a8.2 8.2 0 0 1-4.18-1.14l-.3-.18-3.12.83.83-3.04-.2-.31a8.18 8.18 0 0 1-1.26-4.35c0-4.52 3.68-8.2 8.24-8.2 2.2 0 4.27.86 5.83 2.42a8.16 8.16 0 0 1 2.41 5.8c0 4.52-3.68 8.17-8.24 8.17zm4.52-6.13c-.25-.12-1.47-.72-1.69-.81-.23-.08-.39-.12-.56.13-.16.24-.64.8-.78.97-.14.16-.29.18-.54.06-.25-.12-1.05-.38-2-1.23-.74-.65-1.24-1.46-1.39-1.7-.14-.25-.02-.38.11-.5.11-.11.25-.29.37-.43.12-.15.16-.25.25-.41.08-.17.04-.31-.02-.43-.06-.13-.56-1.34-.76-1.83-.2-.48-.4-.42-.56-.42-.14-.01-.31-.01-.47-.01-.16 0-.43.06-.66.31-.22.24-.87.85-.87 2.06 0 1.22.89 2.4 1.02 2.56.12.17 1.75 2.67 4.24 3.74.59.26 1.05.41 1.41.53.59.19 1.13.16 1.56.1.48-.07 1.47-.6 1.68-1.18.21-.58.21-1.08.15-1.18-.06-.1-.23-.16-.48-.28z\"><\/path><\/svg>\r\n <\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"chat-panel\" id=\"chatPanel\">\r\n <div class=\"chat-head\">\r\n <div><strong>Ask about Shahbaz<\/strong><br><span>Usually replies within a day<\/span><\/div>\r\n <button class=\"chat-close\" id=\"chatClose\" aria-label=\"Close chat\">\u00d7<\/button>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chat-body\" id=\"chatBody\">\r\n <div class=\"chat-msg bot\">Hi \ud83d\udc4b I can answer quick questions about Shahbaz's experience, skills or availability. 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