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[5+ YoE , Ai engineer, Gen AI or Data Scientist, UAE or middle east]
Recruiters and hiring managers: I’d appreciate a straight assessment of this CV. Personal details redacted.
Background: AI & full-stack engineer, ~5 years, all of it independent/consultancy rather than a named employer. Focus on LLM applications, RAG, agents, plus classical ML. Recently had PRs merged into LangChain, Qdrant, and open PRs at LlamaIndex and Chroma.
What I’d like to know:
**1. Rate it 1–10.** Where does it lose you?
**2. Would this pass your screen?** My biggest worry is that “Lead AI Engineer, Nazsats (independent consultancy)” reads as freelance and gets filtered before a human sees it.
**3. Realistic salary band** for this profile in Dubai/UAE, and for international remote?
**4. Anything missing?** Certifications, cloud (I have no AWS/GCP certs), MLOps depth — what would you add?
**5.** Is the open-source section doing real work for me, or is it noise to a recruiter?
**6.** Too long / too dense? Should I cut the older non-technical roles?
Not looking for reassurance — tell me what’s actually weak. Thanks.