Ali Alghamdi

ali@alialghamdi.com:~$ whoami

name:
Ali Alghamdi
title:
Data infrastructure by day.
Building BayanOS by night.
location:
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

ali@alialghamdi.com:~$ about

I’m a data infrastructure engineer in Enterprise IT,
based in Dhahran. By night I’m building BayanOS,
a sovereign operating system with AI at its core.

ali@bayanos ~ $ bayan status

name:
BayanOS
description:
The sovereign operating system,
with AI at its core.
image:
signed, automatic rollback
security:
SELinux, strict firewall
languages:
Arabic, English
data residency:
in-Kingdom
link:
getbayanos.com
alialghamdi Dhahran (UTC+3)

now

building:
BayanOS, the sovereign operating system with AI at its core. A capable assistant on every desk; data never leaves the Kingdom; every AI action governed and auditable by IT.
shipped:
  • signed, image-based OS with automatic rollback
  • secure by default: SELinux, strict firewall
  • the bayan command: status, update, rollback, security checks
  • company web apps
  • Arabic and English built in
on the way:
  • Bayan Core assistant, in tiers: laptop, company server, in-Kingdom cloud
  • policy and audit console
  • zero-touch enrollment
  • compliance profiles: NCA ECC, PDPL, SAMA
  • agents that act with approval
by day:
Data infrastructure in Enterprise IT.
off hours:
  • football, rugby, basketball
  • LEGO
  • honey, and how bees and beekeepers make it
  • Arabic poetry
  • music in any language
studied:
MSc Data Science, University of Amsterdam, 2024

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فطعمُ الموتِ في أمرٍ حقيرٍ كطعمِ الموتِ في أمرٍ عظيمِ

# If you chase something noble, settle for nothing below the stars. al-Mutanabbi

contact

Building something with data, or curious about BayanOS for your company in the Kingdom? Write to me.

email:
github:
github.com/alialghamdi
x:
twitter.com/alialghamdi
linkedin:
linkedin.com/in/alghamdiali
bayanos:
getbayanos.com early access for companies in the Kingdom