Born during the holy shift of the pixelated eighties. Raised in the screeches & whistles of the digital infiltration. Reached consciousness just as we all became officially connected. Spent a decade figuring things out under various trees and in big dark rooms. Fell in love. Started to floss. Helped bring someone new to Earth. Made HireHunt. Joined AWS.

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Basil is an experienced software developer, product manager, technology entrepreneur, published author and international speaker with over 15 years experience. Throughout his career, he has worked on a variety of challenging and creative products with increasing levels of responsibility, complexity, impact and scale. His tech marketing strategies and executions have reached over 4 million people online organically and he has appeared on numerous media outlets such as BBC and OnTV. Furthermore, Basil is passionate about mentoring startups and has given talks and presented at over 50 events around the world. Basil finds it strange to write in the third person.

Basil Fateen

Can you imagine AWS...minus the AWS complexity?
LEAP Stacks 2 is live 🚀

No multi-day setup.
No infrastructure archaeology.
No surprise bills.

LEAP Stacks 2 lets you launch GenAI apps on AWS in minutes.

What you get:
• ⚡ One-click full-stack GenAI prototypes
• 🧠 Bedrock chatbots, RAG, agents, voice, multimodal & more
• 🔐 Secure by default (IAM, auth, isolation handled)
• 📊 Built-in observability (costs, latency, usage)
• 🧹 Auto-cleanup to avoid bill shock
• </> Export to GitHub & connect to Kiro

All 12 included stacks can be used as standalone full-stack applications...

Or they can connect to each other like lego blocks to build larger applications.

This is for:
👉 Developers to build and unlock value from AI, not wire infrastructure
👉 Solution Architects demoing GenAI workflows fast
👉 Startups validating AI MVPs
👉 Web devs starting their cloud AI engineering journey

Try it and let me know what you think!

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“We’re living with an alien roommate.”
That’s how Scott Galloway describes AI, and I couldn’t agree more.

If you feel I’ve been quite lately, it’s because I’ve been spending time with our new roommate.

And with others who are pioneering our future with it.

From Wael Salloum shaping AI roadmaps at MENAT’s unicorns.
To Kate Kamarchuk taking GenAI to market and unlocking ROI.
From Nour Al Hassan building Arabic language models at Tarjama AI.
To Dr. Srinivas Telukunta leading Agentic AI globally at PepsiCo.

What’s becoming clear is this:
We’re no longer all sharing the same reality.

Once it clicks beyond the hype, progress goes exponential.
If it doesn’t, the gap grows fast...and quietly.

But for it ‘to click’, you need the right mindset and the right tools to cut through the noise.

Prototyping, evals, context, human-in-the-loop...it’s a lot to take in.

Starting tomorrow, I’ll share what I’ve been building for 6+ months to help developers accelerate their AI engineering journey.

Plus the lessons I’ve picked up from those already living in the future.

Stay tuned.

Helping mid-size companies generate revenue through client-centric sales | Public Speaker | Outstanding Leadership Award 2023 🏆

I help busy professionals, especially in GCC, stay fit, energetic, and consistent without extreme diets, confusing programs, or burnout.

If you’ve ever thought:

• “I know what I should do, I just never stick with it”  
• “Gym plans feel complicated or impossible with my schedule”  
• “I want structure, not another PDF”  

Then you and I are talking about the same thing.

My focus isn’t flashy before/after photos. It’s simple: Building systems and habits that actually fit your life and work.

You’ll get:
• A training plan that works with your schedule  
• Nutrition guidance that fits your culture & food  
• Weekly accountability so progress doesn’t stall

This isn’t one-size-fits-all.  
This is hands-on coaching for people who want consistency, progress, and confidence, month after month.**

If this resonates, send me a LinkedIn message with DISCOVERY CALL and we’ll talk about your goals.

📍 Coaching Professionals in UAE | Saudi Arabia | Qatar

Ammi Rastogi

I’ve been quiet here for a while. And that was intentional.

For the last 1.5 years, I stepped away from LinkedIn, not because I was stuck,
but because I was rethinking what I actually wanted to build.

I started my career in sales.

It taught me discipline, communication, and how to understand people beyond surface-level conversations.

But over time, I realized something important:

I was performing well professionally, while neglecting my own health and routines.

Fitness wasn’t new to me, but consistency, structure, and long-term thinking changed how I looked at it.

Not as a hobby. Not as aesthetics.

But as a system that supports energy, focus, and performance in everyday life.

That shift slowly became a decision.

I’ve now transitioned into building TWA: Transform With Ammi, a 1:1 online fitness & accountability coaching practice for busy professionals who want sustainable routines, not extremes.

This isn’t a sudden pivot.

It’s the result of learning, unlearning, and choosing long-term alignment over short-term comfort.

I’m back here to share that journey, honestly, thoughtfully, and consistently.

If you’re someone navigating change, rebuilding direction, or prioritizing health alongside work, this space might resonate with you.

More soon.

Online 1:1 Fitness & Accountability Coach for Busy Professionals (GCC) & Diabetes Educator

Long work hours don’t break routines overnight.

They do it quietly.

You skip one workout because you’re tired.

You eat late because meetings run long.

You tell yourself you’ll “get back on track tomorrow.”

And slowly, the routine disappears.

Not because you’re lazy.

But because nothing in your day is designed to support it.

I’ve realized routines don’t survive on motivation.

They survive on structure that respects energy.

When work takes everything, there’s nothing left for consistency.

Sustainable fitness isn’t perfect weeks.

It’s imperfect ones that don’t break the habit.

It’s shorter workouts on busy days.

Simple meals when life is chaotic.

Rest without guilt.

It’s choosing what you can repeat, not what looks impressive.

In practice, sustainability looks boring.

But boring is what lasts.

And lasting is what changes things.

Most professionals think fitness needs more time.

It doesn’t.

It needs less friction.

The real problem isn’t busy schedules, it’s plans that don’t survive them.

When fitness feels like another full-time commitment, it breaks.

When it fits into your life, it lasts.

Fitness doesn’t fail professionals.

Poorly designed systems do.

High performers don’t lack discipline.

They often have too much of it.

They push workouts the same way they push work.

Ignore recovery.

Treat rest like weakness.
 
Chase intensity instead of rhythm.

The mistake isn’t effort.

It’s forgetting that the body isn’t a machine.

Fitness isn’t another KPI to optimize.

It’s something that needs patience, flexibility, and listening.

The strongest people I know are the ones who learned when to slow down.

Sales taught me something fitness later reinforced.

You don’t win by doing one great call.
 
You win by showing up, every day, even when nothing closes.

Fitness works the same way.

It’s not the perfect workout that changes you.

It’s the boring, repeatable effort that compounds quietly.

That’s one big reason I moved from sales to fitness.

Both are built on consistency, not intensity.

And both reward people who don’t disappear when things feel slow.

Motivation is unreliable.

It’s high on Monday.

Gone by Thursday.

Systems don’t care how you feel.
 
They’re there even on tired days.

That’s why sustainable fitness isn’t about pushing harder, it’s about removing decisions.

Same time.
Simple plan.
Low resistance.

When systems take over, progress becomes automatic.

And that’s when things finally stick.

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