Beirut, Lebanon

I build AI systems and teach people to build them.

I am an AI and software engineer at Limitless Technologies in Beirut, building systems for health and insurance technology.

Jihad Ftouny as the AI Engineer class, in cyan light AI Engineer Ships production AI systems My day job and my own builds. Production AI at Limitless Technologies in health and insurance, plus a detector that spots AI-written text without a large model, and a picture-book platform built with a partner. Enter Work Jihad Ftouny as the AI Instructor class, in violet light AI Instructor Writes and teaches AI courses AI courses for AUB, with Microsoft, at G42, ZAKA and SE Factory. Some I teach myself; some are taught by other instructors from notes I write for them. More than 7,000 people reached in 2025. Enter Teaching Jihad Ftouny as the Game Developer class, in amber light Game Developer Where it all started Two shipped games, a text RPG that taught me more about programming than anything else, and a rebuild in progress where a local model narrates the story as you play. Enter Games

achievement sheet

  • Production AI systems, shipped weekly
  • Students trained through courses I wrote 7,000+
  • Students taught and mentored directly 400+
  • Games shipped 2

Quest log

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What is being built right now.

Working at Limitless Technologies

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The day job, ongoing: production AI systems for health and insurance, built and shipped from Beirut.

The day job

Rebuild The Void

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A full rebuild of the 2023 original, content, design and everything: a model on your own machine narrates the story as you play, and the engine owns every rule and number. The first version was 121 commits written entirely by hand.

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Unlocked

  • 2025 7,000+ in one year People reached in one year by courses I wrote at ZAKA.
  • 2025 First in MENA Wrote the K-12 content for SEEDS, the MENA region's first school AI curriculum.
  • 2023 Hackathon champion Led the smart glasses team to the win at AUB's Tech for Accessibility hackathon.
  • 2023 Shipped in 48 hours Elvish Rootings, built and finished inside the Global Game Jam window.