AI-Native CTO | VP Engineering | Secure Platform Builder

Building secure, AI-native platforms from zero to production.

I lead and build complex products across AI, law enforcement technology, agritech, fintech, healthtech, and real-time platforms by combining hands-on architecture, product strategy, and engineering leadership.

CTO Stack

RAG01
Security02
Cloud03
Product04
Realtime05
Portrait of Dr. Mohammed Raiyan

Executive Technology Leadership

Hands-on architecture, secure systems, AI product strategy, and zero-to-one execution.

15+

Years in technology and product leadership

40+

Engineers led across technical teams

1,250+

Officer reach through LEO AI onboarding

300+

Officers supported by NexxusOne

3M+

Daily TerraGrow data points

$2M

Raised for TerraGrow

98%+

WGTS accuracy positioning

200+

Table AR users supported

Signal Console

The work changes domains, but the operating pattern stays sharp.

AI, secure SaaS, AR, agritech, and realtime platforms all need the same discipline: turn complex systems into products people can trust and use.

Active Signal

AI Systems

Legal intelligence

RAG + citations + guardrails

RetrievalCitationsAdminUsage

Source-grounded workflows that make complex legal and operational knowledge usable.

Case Studies

Proof, Not Resume Filler

The portfolio is organized around systems built, risks handled, and outcomes created across AI, security, sports technology, agritech, and real-time platforms.

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LEO AI

AI Platform

https://www.leoai.ca/

Source-grounded legal intelligence for law enforcement agencies.

Built the complete LEO AI RAG platform for law enforcement legal intelligence, including retrieval pipelines, citations, guardrails, agency administration, officer access, and credit-based pricing.

5

Agency-scale onboarding

1,250+

Officer-scale reach

RAGLLMVector DatabaseLegal AI
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NexxusOne

Secure SaaS

nexxusone.ca

Secure public-safety collaboration for multi-agency coordination.

Built and delivered a secure public-safety collaboration platform for law enforcement agencies, modernizing officer coordination, secure messaging, case workspaces, and encrypted information sharing.

300+

Officer-scale adoption

AES-256

Enterprise-grade encryption posture

Law EnforcementSecure MessagingRBACAudit Logs

AI + AR measurement for lawn bowls, Bocce, and precision sports.

Built and delivered an AI + AR lawn bowls measurement app using a YOLO-trained computer vision pipeline, native iOS, and LiDAR-assisted measurement, with expansion planned for Bocce and similar precision sports.

98%+

High-accuracy measurement positioning

<3 sec

Fast shot measurement

SportsTechComputer VisionYOLONative iOS

AI and data infrastructure for controlled-environment agriculture.

Led TerraGrow as a founder/operator, building agritech data systems that connected AI, IoT, cultivation intelligence, dashboards, and business operations.

$2M

Venture-backed execution

3M+

Large-scale agritech telemetry

AgriTechIoTAI AnalyticsData Infrastructure
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Table AR

Real-Time Platform

Live tabletop gameplay systems with synchronized tokens and broadcast state.

Built core real-time features for Table AR, a virtual tabletop RPG platform, including broadcast functionality, synchronized tokens, session state, and live gameplay calculations.

200+

Live tabletop user base

Live

Broadcast features

VTTReal-Time SystemsWebSocketsBroadcast
What I Build

Systems For Complex Work

Five capability pillars connect the case studies into a CTO-level operating pattern: AI, trust, speed, applied interaction, and zero-to-one leadership.

AI-Native Platforms

LLM products designed around retrieval, governance, guardrails, and adoption.

  • RAG pipelines
  • AI agents
  • Vector databases
  • Cited workflows

Secure Enterprise Systems

Sensitive-domain platforms shaped for trust, access control, and auditability.

  • RBAC
  • Encryption posture
  • Audit trails
  • Multi-tenant administration

Real-Time Product Experiences

Live state, broadcast, collaboration, and interaction systems where latency matters.

  • WebSockets
  • Broadcast flows
  • Session state
  • Token sync

Computer Vision & Mobile AR

Applied AI products that connect detection, spatial sensing, and native mobile UX.

  • YOLO pipelines
  • ARKit
  • LiDAR flows
  • Object detection

Zero-to-One Leadership

Founder/operator execution across MVPs, teams, funding, architecture, and delivery.

  • MVP to production
  • Team scaling
  • Product strategy
  • Stakeholder demos
Technical Leadership Stack

Depth Where It Matters

The emphasis is not on tool collecting. It is on the architecture areas that decide whether a product becomes secure, scalable, and adopted.

AI & RAG

LLM workflowsEmbeddingsVector searchCitation mappingGuardrails

Cloud & Platform

Next.jsNode.jsServerlessPostgresMulti-tenant SaaS

Security & Trust

RBACAudit logsEncrypted workflowsSOC 2-aware practices

Realtime & Interaction

WebSocketsBroadcast stateSession syncThree.jsWebGL

Mobile & Vision

Native iOSARKitLiDARYOLOCore product UX

Delivery Systems

MLOps thinkingCI/CDObservabilityAI-assisted development
Experience

Founder, Builder, Operator

The career narrative moves from engineering discipline into AI-native product leadership, public-sector trust, and venture-building.

Founder / CTO / TerraGrow

2018 - 2024

Built agritech data and AI systems while leading venture, product, and engineering execution.

  • Scaled technical execution across product, infrastructure, analytics, and stakeholder demos.
  • Led teams and systems supporting high-volume operational data workflows.
  • Raised venture funding and translated complex technology into business outcomes.

Technology Leader / Venture Builder / Drive Technology

2024 - Present

Builds AI-native products, prototypes, and executive technology strategies across venture contexts.

  • Shapes zero-to-one product roadmaps and technical architecture.
  • Applies AI-assisted delivery workflows to accelerate build cycles.
  • Connects founder, investor, and operator priorities into executable plans.

Technology & Product Leadership / SAAL.AI

Prior role

Worked across AI product delivery, engineering execution, and enterprise-facing technology programs.

  • Delivered AI and data-driven product initiatives.
  • Supported cross-functional execution across technical and business stakeholders.

Technology Leadership / Injazat

Prior role

Contributed to enterprise technology delivery in cloud, platform, and transformation environments.

  • Operated in enterprise-scale delivery settings.
  • Balanced technical implementation with stakeholder outcomes.

Engineering Foundation / Infosys Tech

Early career

Built the engineering base that later expanded into product, AI, cloud, and executive leadership.

  • Developed delivery discipline across complex technical programs.
  • Established the hands-on engineering foundation behind later CTO-level work.
Leadership Philosophy

Calm Under Complexity

Build fast, but build trusted systems.

Speed matters most when the product can still earn confidence from users, administrators, and executives.

Use AI to multiply engineering execution.

AI should accelerate delivery while senior judgment protects architecture, security, and product fit.

Architecture must connect to the business model.

The best technical decisions make user value, scalability, governance, and monetization easier to reason about.

Executive Search / Founder Conversation / AI Product Leadership

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