Hello, I'm

Hendar Mawan

AI Engineering Leader

AI engineering leader combining hands-on architecture, production AI systems, secure Edge AI, platform engineering and R&D leadership to turn prototypes into scalable, governed products.

Hendar Mawan — AI engineering leader
AI Engineer → AI Architect → Director of AI
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About

I build the systems around AI that make it dependable in the real world.

My work sits at the intersection of AI engineering, secure systems, cloud and edge infrastructure, automation and technical leadership. I focus on moving AI from prototype into production: architecture, integration, deployment, monitoring, governance, rollback and operational evidence.

Operating principle

Innovation with production discipline.

AI without governance becomes risk. Governance without innovation becomes stagnation. The strongest platforms make reliability, security and accountability part of the engineering architecture itself.

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Capabilities

Engineering depth first. Architecture and leadership built on top.

AI Engineering
Generative AILLM EngineeringRAGAgentic AIAI EvaluationPrompt EngineeringAI Security
Production AI
MLOpsAI LifecycleObservabilityHuman-in-the-LoopAI GovernanceModel DeploymentRollback
AI Platforms
System ArchitectureAPIsWorkflow AutomationCloud NativeKubernetesDockerCI/CD
Edge & Security
Edge AIEmbedded LinuxTrusted ComputingTPM/TEERISC-VFPGAIoT Security
Leadership
AI StrategyR&D LeadershipTechnical RoadmapsPartner ManagementResearch-to-ProductCustomer Engagement
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Selected Work

Production AI, secure Edge AI and governed automation.

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Industrial AI Programme

LIFE-AI

Lifecycle-first Edge AI for industrial fleets: optimization, governed deployment, monitoring, rollback and operational evidence.

Project Lead · R&D Leadership · Multi-company AI programme
Edge AIAI LifecycleIndustrial AIGovernance
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Governed AI Release Control

Secure Edge AI Governance

Executable fail-closed governance for Edge AI releases with two-person approval, risk and drift gates, attestation evidence and MCP tooling.

Architecture · Policy · Implementation
AI GovernanceMCPSecurityHuman Approval
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AI Workflow Engineering

Production AI Automation

Production-oriented workflow automation with typed contracts, tool boundaries, business-rule verification, human approval and auditable outcomes.

Architecture · Implementation · Validation
Production AIAutomationPythonCI/CD
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Continuous LLM Evaluation & Release Gating

PromptPulse

Production-oriented LLM quality pipeline that turns chatbot behavior into repeatable release gates across relevance, groundedness, reference coverage and policy compliance, with live Hugging Face inference and optional DeepEval semantic judging.

Architecture · LLM Evaluation · CI/CD · Production AI
LLMOpsAI EvaluationDeepEvalGitHub ActionsHugging Face
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Leadership

A Director of AI pathway grounded in engineering ownership.

AI Strategy

Translate business goals, technical constraints and risk into an executable AI roadmap.

Engineering Leadership

Lead multidisciplinary teams from system architecture through implementation, validation and deployment.

Production Ownership

Design for lifecycle operations: deployment, monitoring, governance, rollback and operational evidence.

Research-to-Product

Turn advanced AI and systems research into capabilities that customers can deploy and operate.

Partner & Stakeholder Alignment

Bridge engineering, customers, researchers, executives, funders and industrial partners.

Secure AI Governance

Make policy, accountability, evidence and recovery part of the platform architecture itself.

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Experience

From systems engineering to AI platform and R&D leadership.

2024 — Present

R&D Director & COO

RIoT Secure AB

Lead AI/Edge AI strategy, R&D execution, platform architecture, technical productization, customer-facing innovation and industrial research programmes.

2024 — Present

Researcher & Project Manager

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Applied R&D across AI infrastructure, trusted computing, cybersecurity and industrial systems, translating research into deployable technology.

2026 — Present

Research Engineer & Master's Thesis Supervisor

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Supervise graduate research in AI, cybersecurity, distributed systems, LLM security and secure digital infrastructure.

2024 — Present

Co-founder & AI Software Lead

AlpLab.ai

Lead Edge AI SDK architecture, embedded AI workflows, developer tooling and reproducible deployment infrastructure.

2021 — 2023

Assistant Professor / Researcher

Kumamoto University

Research and teaching in computer architecture, FPGA systems, heterogeneous computing and hardware/software co-design.

Let's connect

Build something meaningful with AI.

I am interested in AI engineering leadership, AI architecture, secure production AI, Edge AI and Director of AI opportunities where deep technical execution and strategic ownership belong together.