Jihad Ftouny
AI & Software Engineer @ Limitless Technologies · AI curriculum author (AUB · Microsoft · G42) · I build AI systems and games
I design and ship AI systems end-to-end: LLM agents and RAG pipelines for live customer products, AI-driven creative tools, and research prototypes. At Limitless Technologies I build LLM-based systems for healthcare and insurance clients, a domain where the data is confidential and the cost of a wrong answer is real.
I also teach and mentor. I have authored and delivered AI programs for AUB, Microsoft, G42, VISA, ZAKA, and SE Factory. I have taught and mentored 400+ students directly, and the programs I built at ZAKA trained 7,000+ people in 2025 alone.
AI work
- Magic Wonder: an end-to-end AI platform that automates the creation of children's storybooks, covering LLM story generation, illustration synthesis, page layout, sticker system, and PDF export. Architected, built, and deployed end-to-end.
- Customer-facing AI agent: an assistant for a confidential insurance client that lets customers ask about their policies in natural language. Designed the prompt architecture, conversation flows, and grounding behaviour, and currently own the backend infrastructure the agent runs on.
- Internal chatbots: built for a range of companies at Limitless, covering knowledge retrieval, workflow assistance, and policy-grounded Q&A.
- GPTector: detects AI-generated text using Word2Vec and classical ML instead of a transformer. CPU-only, real-time, with separate models for short and long inputs. Built in support of SUPSI research.
- Smart glasses prototype: led the team that won an AUB hackathon, using YOLO object recognition for navigational assistance for visually impaired users.
Teaching and curriculum
- AUB AI Starter Kit: authored an 8-week online professional certificate for the American University of Beirut, including localized examples with Arabic LLMs.
- UAE AI Academy: course author for a national AI upskilling initiative with Microsoft.
- VISA: designed AI training workshops for finance and analytics professionals.
- Inception / G42 and IMAGIC: designed and delivered corporate AI training.
- SE Factory AI Engineering Bootcamp: mentor and code reviewer across ML foundations, data pipelines, computer vision, and AWS Bedrock labs.
- ZAKA: AI certification and bootcamp instructor.
- SEEDS: K-12 AI curriculum.
Games
- The Void: a text-RPG in Java with a rarity-based equipment system and D&D-style attribute combat. 121 commits of solo iteration. Now being reworked into a prototype for LLM-driven content, with enemies, lore, and story generated at runtime instead of hand-written.
- Elvish Rootings: an action arcade game made for Global Game Jam 2023.
- Airstrike Defense: a 2D scrolling defense game.