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Research engineer at SCB DataX

I build speech AI, LLM evaluation and the full-stack products around them, and once taught a robot to find its own way.

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Faisal Wani

You dream it, I code it to life. I’m Faisal Faisal, an engineer who builds speech AI, LLM tooling and the full-stack products around them. I studied Digital Engineering at PSU, built a robot The service robot that maps its own room, and when I’m off work I’m on a football pitch Faisal playing football.

Now
Research Engineer at SCB DataX
Building
Iqra AI, a voice tutor for Quran recitation
Before
SCB 10X, Mojen.ai, SCG and Booktree
Studied
B.Eng Digital Engineering, Prince of Songkla University

Where I’ve worked.

  • Real-time Thai speech recognition, and the evaluation and monitoring that take a bank’s voice agent to production.

    • FastAPI
    • DeepEval
    • Langfuse
    • OpenTelemetry
    • Azure AKS
    Read the Typhoon ASR paper
    • Co-authored the Typhoon ASR Streaming paper on real-time Thai speech recognition, with 4.5× fewer errors than the full-context baseline, and built the FastAPI and WebSocket service that serves the model.
    • Built the evaluation harness for a bank’s five-service voice AI agent: it scores real conversations end to end with LLM-as-a-Judge (DeepEval), and other teams run their own test sets through its API.
    • Instrumented the agent with OpenTelemetry across Python, Go and Java services, with a Langfuse and ClickHouse dashboard for quality, latency, cost and safety on live traffic.
    • Hardened it for the bank’s security review (Entra ID single sign-on, group-based access, managed identity instead of API keys, PII access logging) and shipped it to AKS through the bank’s Jenkins and Helm pipeline.
    • Turned the Linguist team’s annotation platform into a multi-project speech-data pipeline and used it to prepare a Thai ASR benchmark.

Things I’ve built.

  1. AI voice tutor, 2026

    Iqra AI

    A real-time voice tutor for Quran recitation. It listens while you recite, grades every sound, and tells you where in the mouth or throat a missed sound is made.

    phoneme error rate, under the 9.5% published on the same data
    8.9%
    lessons, from the Arabic alphabet to tajweed
    66
    • LiveKit
    • wav2vec 2.0
    • Modal
    • Next.js
  2. Tour booking platform, 2026

    Alwani Travel

    The booking platform of a licensed Phuket travel agency: tours, tickets and transfers from search to checkout, rebuilt in 2026 on Next.js, NestJS and PostgreSQL.

    tours, tickets and transfers on sale
    ~80
    tasks shipped in seven months through a multi-agent workflow
    350
    • Next.js
    • NestJS
    • PostgreSQL
    • Claude API
  3. B2B site for travel agents, 2026

    Alwani DMC

    The trade side of Alwani Travel: a bilingual site where travel agents and tour operators see what the Phuket team runs on the ground, then send a brief for a costed plan.

    destinations, drawn on one map as you scroll
    5
    languages, English and Thai
    2

Earlier builds

More on GitHub
  • Web3 game

    Dragon Ball NFT Game

    A memory card game where winning cards are minted as NFTs you can trade on OpenSea.

  • Robotics

    Autonomous Service Robot

    A mobile robot that maps a room with LIDAR and plans its own collision-free path.

  • Chauffeur hire site

    Andaman Luxury Car

    A Thai and English site for a Phuket chauffeur service with a black Toyota Alphard, told as a scroll film: the car, the island it drives you around, the fares and a form that writes the booking for you.

What I build with.

The languages, frameworks and infrastructure I use most. Tap one to toss it.

Certificates and awards.

Academic

Degree, GPA awards and international GCSEs.

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Competitions

Hackathons, coding contests and maths olympiads.

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Courses

Data, AI and event streaming fundamentals.

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Faisal dribbling past a defender
Holding the trophy after winning a cup in Phuket
With a trophy on the pitch at night
Rising for a header
Running onto the ball in an orange kit
Champions photo with the team trophy
On the ball in a five-a-side match

Off the clock.

When I’m not at a keyboard, I’m on a football pitch. A few trophies came home too.

Let’s build something.

© 2026 Shah Faisal Wani

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