From pilot to production, I help startups to build faster, smarter and future-proof with AI + Data. | Keynote Speaker | Forbes Tech Council

As a Forbes Technology Council member and Cutting Edge tech expert, I help startups, SMEs, and enterprises scale smarter through AI, Cloud, Data, and Engineering solutions.

Whether you’re launching a new SaaS product, migrating legacy infrastructure, or building AI-enabled features, I lead the delivery of future-ready solutions tailored to your needs.

At Addo, as a founding member I grew the team from 3 to 300+, delivered 170+ enterprise-scale projects, expanded from Singapore to ASEAN, MiddleEast, Austrailia, Europe and USA, helped and lead Google, AWS, Microsoft, KPMG, Salesforce and Mastercard partnerships and developed an exceptional team. 

Previously, as the CEO and CTO of two professional services startups, I built scalable technology platforms, streamlined operations, and achieved 10x revenue growth within just two years. These experiences shaped my belief that innovation is the key to staying ahead in a rapidly evolving world.

My experience spans Fortune 500s, startups, and scaleups in industries like fintech, telco, healthcare, retail, and smart cities.

▸ Keynote Speaker on AI, Cloud & Innovation
▸ 15+ years across 20+ tech stacks
▸ Certified SAFe, PMP, 2x AWS Cloud Architect, ScrumMaster

Let’s build something remarkable.

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟰𝟬 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐐𝐀 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠… 𝐭𝐨 𝟰× 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠. 

One engineering team I worked with had a 𝟭𝟱- 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐐𝐀 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭

Forty hours every month.

Two-week deployment cycles.

Endless regressions.

Then we introduced an AI-driven layer that understood 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧-𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬, No brittle scripts, no maintenance hell.

Within a month, they were deploying 𝟰× per week.

Testing time? 𝐙𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬.

We didn’t make QA easier.

We made it 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞.

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 

• Traditional QA frameworks like Selenium or Cypress break at scale.

• Maintenance kills velocity.

• AI in testing doesn’t replace humans, It replaces repetition.

Engineers can finally focus on what matters: 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠.

If you lead a QA or DevOps team, What’s one process you wish could self-heal overnight?

#AI #Testing #DevOps #Automation #Leadership #SoftwareEngineering #QualityAssurance

Arslan Ihsan

#NewYork just installed a new operating system and it’s open source...
During my recent trip to New York, 

I got to see Zohran Mamdani’s campaign up close, 
not through headlines, 
but through street posters, 
subway conversations, and late-night debates in hookah Cafe's. 

It felt less like politics… and more like a community debugging its own code.

What stood out most wasn’t the slogans
it was the architecture behind them.

Mamdani’s win looks like a model upgrade:
grassroots, data-driven, and relentlessly inclusive.

💡 Here’s what tech and AI can learn from it: 
1. 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥
Thousands of small actions, volunteers, and micro-donations shaped one of NYC’s biggest political outcomes.

That’s not politics, that’s collective intelligence at scale.

2. 𝐀𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
Rent freeze. Free buses. Universal childcare.
It’s what happens when you optimize for human outcomes, not institutional metrics.

3. 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 > 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞
This wasn’t a new face on an old system.
It was a full rearchitecture, values, voice, and vision rewritten from the ground up.



For those of us building in AI and technology, there’s a lesson here:

Leadership, like machine learning, improves only when you let new data in.

If you train on old data, same networks, same playbooks, your model overfits. Mamdani’s win is what happens when a new dataset finally gets a voice.

My reflection, The #future isn’t just about what we build, it’s about who gets built into the system. What is yours?
PC: Sharjeel Shahab💸

#ZohranMamdani #NYCMayor #Leadership #SystemChange

Looking for a Mid to Senior Tech Product Manager, any recommendations will be highly appreciated.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧.

While the world chases Artificial General Intelligence,
Microsoft just changed the race.

Mustafa Suleyman, The mind behind DeepMind is now leading
Microsoft’s new 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦.

Their mission isn’t to make machines that think like us.
It’s to make machines that 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴.

No talk of replacing humans.
No dystopian headlines.

Just a quiet vision:
𝐀𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐬.

→ AI that helps doctors detect diseases before they spread.
→ AI that strengthens the world’s energy systems.
→ AI that supports classrooms instead of replacing teachers.

Because the future of AI isn’t about who gets there first.
It’s about who takes everyone there.

Suleyman isn’t trying to 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 the world.
He’s trying to 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞 it.

And that’s the 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
The age of 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 has begun.

The 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 now isn’t who builds the most powerful AI.
It's who builds the most humane one.

#MicrosoftAI #MustafaSuleyman #AILeadership #Innovation #HumanistSuperintelligence #FutureOfWork #TechForGood #Leadership #ArslanIhsan

𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝𝐈𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡:
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝟯 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐈 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫.

I’ve spoken to 𝟮𝟬𝟬 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 who became 𝐀𝐈 𝐏𝐌𝐬.
Here’s what I learned:

1. Go to LinkedIn
2. Click “Edit Profile”
3. Add “AI” before “Product Manager

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐦. You’re now shaping the future of intelligence.

But Here’s the Truth:
The title changed, The mindset didn’t.

Real AI product thinking isn’t about buzzwords.
It’s about 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐲 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲,
The parts nobody sees.

Every week I meet PMs quietly doing the real work:
→ Learning how models actually behave
→ Testing workflows with real users
→ Shipping tiny experiments
→ Breaking things, fixing things
→ Asking uncomfortable questions like 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐀𝐈?

That’s the difference between an 𝐀𝐈 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞 and an 𝐀𝐈 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫.

And 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲?
I Respect the quiet builders way more than the loud re-branders.

𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 and Shoutout to everyone whose job title evolves faster than their product roadmap. 

#AI #ProductManagement #AIPM #FridayPost #Leadership #ArslanIhsan

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐞

Ever delivered a message you truly believed in…
and still watched the room disconnect?

I Have, more times than I’d like to admit.

And every single time, it hits the same way:
quietly… but deeply.

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐆𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬

You walk in prepared.
The idea is strong.
The strategy is clear.
You know exactly what needs to happen.

But 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐟𝐰𝐚𝐲 through speaking, you can feel it
The room pulls back.
The spark drops.
The connection softens.

People are listening… but they’re not with you.

It feels like your words are landing,
but your presence isn’t.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐈 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫

There was one meeting I’ll never forget.
Everyone agreed
yet somehow, nothing shifted.

They understood the plan,
but they didn’t feel the intention.

And sitting in the car afterward,
I kept asking myself:

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐦𝐞…
𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦?

That’s when I remembered something that changed everything for me
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤.

It showed me why the message felt right…
but the moment felt wrong.

And once I saw that,
the entire way I communicated changed.

The Energy Scale Framework made 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐞:
your words might be strong…
but if the energy is wrong, the room won’t move.


#LeadershipCommunication #PublicSpeakingTips #ExecutivePresence #LeadershipDevelopment #HighImpactSpeaking

The Energy Scale Framework

𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦?

You’ve seen it happen. That moment when words lose their power.

When you’ve said everything right… yet somehow, it doesn’t land.

So you keep talking.
You fill every gap, hoping more words will do what the last ones couldn’t.

But the more you speak, the less they feel.

Because silence isn’t the problem.
Your fear of it is.

I once watched a leader pause mid-debate. The room froze.
Five seconds. Ten seconds. No words. Just weight.

When he finally spoke, he lowered his tone.
Every word after felt like it belonged in stone.

That moment taught me a Truth:

𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤.
𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦.

The best communicators don’t fight silence.
They 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘪𝘵.

That’s what the Pause Pyramid helps you master,
the art of stillness that makes people not just listen…
…but lean in.

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬?

#LeadershipCommunication #ExecutivePresence #StorytellingForLeaders #PublicSpeaking #LeadershipDevelopment

The Pause Pyramid

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥…

It’ll be a workforce you never see.

Most companies don’t fail because of bad decisions.

They fail because of 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.

The real breakdown happens in the places no dashboard tracks:

→ Missed follow-ups

→ Delayed approvals

→ Forgotten tasks

→ Repeated checks

→ Unclear ownership

→ Manual loops

→ The silent 𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐭? moments

These tiny stalls cost more momentum than any major blocker.

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐒 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐀,
𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐞:
Our biggest delays weren’t 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥.
They were 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥.

Not big issues.

Just 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨-𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐬 between people

Waiting… Checking… Reminding…

All invisible.

All expensive.

That’s when it clicked:
𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬.
𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦.

And that’s exactly where AI Agents change everything.

They don’t just 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭.

They run the workflow.

End-to-end.

24/7.

No fatigue.

No context switching.

No babysitting.

They eliminate the operational drag humans simply can’t see or sustain.

And here’s what Leaders Underestimate:
𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲
𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞.

Not because agents replace humans…

but because they remove the slowest parts of work.

If one workflow in your team could run itself tomorrow
𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠?

#AIAgents #FutureOfWork #BusinessOps #OperationalExcellence #AILeadership

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