Manama, Bahrain — Innovation Division

Husain
Dashti

I build the banking features people actually open the app for — from AI-powered finance recaps to features shipped in under a week. Innovation Senior Analyst @ Al Salam Bank. Computer Science & AI, University of Sussex.

Account Summary · Career● Compounding
0+ yrs
In production banking
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Features shipped
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Platforms · Retail + Corporate
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Fastest feature to prod (eSIM)

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01 · Statement of Work

Every line item
cleared to production.

Al Salam Bank · Innovation Senior Analyst · Jan 2020 — Present. A running ledger of what was deposited into the retail and corporate platforms.

PostedDescriptionCredit
RETAIL
Yearly Finance Recap
Proposed, pitched and built an annual financial recap for every customer. Became one of the most celebrated features of the app.
+ DELIGHT
GEN AI
Generative AI via AWS Bedrock
Advocated for, then shipped, GenAI-powered insights that read customers' financial habits back to them — inside a regulated bank.
+ INSIGHT
RETAIL
Budgets & Spendings
End-to-end: every screen, backend logic, complex queries, Highcharts visualisations, feedback loops and AI analysis for tracking money in and out.
+ CONTROL
7 DAYS
Airalo eSIM Integration
Full backend + frontend integration with usage tracking inside Bonsai. Concept to production in under a week.
+ VELOCITY
PAYMENTS
BENEFIT · FAWRI+ · FAWATEER
Integrated Bahrain's national payment rails across retail and corporate, and managed the end-to-end BENEFIT certification process.
+ RAILS
CORPORATE
Corporate Portal & Payroll
Automated corporate onboarding, KYC validation, full payroll implementation, service requests, and an authority matrix that designs human error out of the process.
+ SCALE
DATA
Transaction Categorisation Engine
Exploratory analysis on raw transactions, then an algorithm that auto-categorises them — the quiet backbone of every spending insight in the app.
+ SIGNAL
INTERNAL
"Anaconda" PM Portal
An in-house project management portal with interactive Gantt, packed-bubble, stacked-column and gauge charts. Built because spreadsheets weren't cutting it.
+ VISIBILITY

02 · Infrastructure

The plumbing nobody sees
but everyone relies on.

AWS🔐

Auth, Registration & Comms

Cognito, SNS, SES, S3, Lambda and CloudFormation powering authentication, SMS and email across both apps.

Compliance🛰️

PEP Screening Algorithm

Enhanced Politically Exposed Persons screening built into retail and corporate onboarding.

Automation📄

PDF & Voucher Generation

Automated document pipelines across OutSystems, C#, Python, AWS and JavaScript.

KYC🪪

Onboarding & KYC

Streamlined customer onboarding with secure authentication protocols and robust KYC storage design.

03 · The Vault

Tools on deposit.

PlatformsOutSystems (Certified)AWSOracle Integration CloudOracle Functions
LanguagesPythonC#JavaJavaScriptVB.NetMySQL
AI / MLAWS BedrockNeural NetworksComputer VisionNLPMinimax / Game AI
ComplianceFinancial Crime (Thomson Reuters)InfoSec & Cyber RiskAnti-Bribery & Corruption
Languages (Human)ArabicEnglishFrench

04 · AI Origins

Trained on AI before it was a buzzword.

BSc Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence, University of Sussex — graduated with honors, 2019. The fundamentals were built from scratch. Literally.

Healthcare × VR

VR Balance Therapy

Designed and built a fully functional virtual reality system for treating patients with balance disorders — graduation project.

Neural Networks

MLP From Scratch

A multi-layer perceptron for Boston housing price prediction — implemented from zero, with hand-rolled grid search and cross-validation.

Game AI

Checkers vs. The Machine

Full checkers engine in Java with Minimax and alpha-beta pruning, plus an adjustable difficulty dial for the AI opponent.

Computer Vision

Zero-Shot Animal Classifier

Direct Attribute Prediction on the Animals-with-Attributes dataset — recognising species the model had never seen.

2016 — 2019 · Brighton, UK

University of Sussex

BSc Computer Science & AI, with honors. Machine learning, computer vision, NLP, neural circuits, HCI, knowledge & reasoning.

First client · 2015, age 17

Therapy Centre, Bahrain

Built a complete data-entry system for a physiotherapy clinic — shipping real software for a real business before finishing school.