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Riyadh · RN · Clinical AI

Ali Utaif

Registered nurse who builds clinical AI.

UK-trained nurse with 7 years of Ministry of Interior service and charge nurse experience in acute and psychiatric care. I design, build and deploy GenAI and vision systems.

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Two classes, one player. Pick a side.

Class
Registered Nurse
Level
7years of Ministry of Interior service
Background
UK-trained · BSc (Hons) Nursing, University of Birmingham
Alignment
Lawful Good

Stats

  • Patient care18 out of 20, modifier+4
  • Risk & safety17 out of 20, modifier+3
  • Documentation16 out of 20, modifier+3
  • Leadership15 out of 20, modifier+2
  • Teaching14 out of 20, modifier+2

Ward map

  1. Integrated Inpatient Unit

    Orthopaedics · Neurology · Maxillofacial

    Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh

    Charge nurse · 28–31 patients/unit · post-op recovery, traction & cast care, neuro observation · precepted students

  2. High-Acuity Psychiatry

    Ministry of Interior facility, Alkhobar

    Charge nurse · risk & de-escalation · long-acting antipsychotics

  3. Psychiatry & Addiction

    Azm Center, Riyadh

    Detox & withdrawal monitoring · CBAHI-standard documentation · taught 'AI and What It Means to Us' to ~50 staff

Training grounds UK · 2021–2024

2,300+ supervised clinical hours across University Hospitals Birmingham NHS FT and Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS FT

  • Acute medicine
  • Emergency
  • Critical care
  • Cardiology & coronary care
  • Renal
  • Respiratory
  • Neurology & stroke
  • Trauma & orthopaedics
  • Surgery & theatres
  • Oncology & haematology
  • Care of the elderly
  • Maternity
  • Paediatrics & neonatal
  • Mental health
  • Community & primary care
  • Palliative care
Class
Artificer
Level
2+years building with AI
Background
Self-taught builder
Alignment
Chaotic Curious

Stats

  • AI engineering15 out of 20, modifier+2
  • Python15 out of 20, modifier+2
  • Web development15 out of 20, modifier+2
  • Computer vision14 out of 20, modifier+2
  • Data (SQL · Power BI)13 out of 20, modifier+1

Skills

  • Python
  • Rust
  • SQL
  • Power BI
  • LLM & agent pipelines
  • Gemini + VLMs
  • Computer vision
  • Astro & web
  • Bilingual RTL sites

Builds AI tools, bilingual web apps and vision pipelines — end to end, from idea to deployment.

See my quests ↓

Quests

Projects I have built or am building. Loot = what came out of it.

Main quest

In progress

Psych documentation assistant

Turns psychiatric and addiction nursing notes into structured withdrawal scores (CIWA-Ar, COWS) and concise summaries. Built on synthetic data only.

LootIn progress: demo, evaluation against nurse-written cases, and a privacy & regulatory note (PDPL, SDAIA, SFDA).

Built with: GeminiPythonFHIR

Completed

Plain-language health rewriter

An AI-assisted tool that rewrites health information into plain, audience-appropriate Arabic and English.

LootHealth information patients can actually read, in both languages.

Built with: PythonRustLLMs

Completed

Vision models on rented GPUs

Deployed and served computer-vision models on rented cloud GPUs.

LootDeployed end to end: environment setup, inference serving and cost control on rented VRAM.

Built with: PyTorchCloud GPUsDocker

Completed

Gemini + VLM pipeline

Stacks Gemini with vision-language models to analyse images and video.

LootA working multi-model pipeline combining reasoning and visual understanding.

Built with: Gemini APIVLMsPython

Completed

Websites, end to end

Built and deployed bilingual Arabic/English production websites with full right-to-left layout and Arabic typography, including this one.

LootLive sites, from design to deployment.

Built with: AstroHTML/CSSAI tools

Roll for wisdom

Quotes I live by. Make a Wisdom check.

Wisdom checkDC 10

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What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Richard Feynman

The Library

Small things you can play with. Ideas I keep coming back to.

“The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing.”

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Open to clinical AI, digital health, health informatics and healthcare quality roles in Saudi Arabia.