Head of AI at NetzeroAl Khobar, Saudi Arabia
Abdulkareem Alramlawi
I build AI that measures the natural world, and products people use every day.
At Netzero I lead the team that measures trees one by one, from a phone photo on the ground and from satellites above, so climate impact can be checked rather than assumed.
Outside work I build with Sada, a small studio making apps for Quran study, reading, family life and desert rescue.
- years building software and AI
- 5+years building software and AI
- engineers in the AI team I built
- 10engineers in the AI team I built
- people using Sada products
- 300K+people using Sada products
- daily rescue requests coordinated by Enjad
- 6,000+daily rescue requests coordinated by Enjad
Now
Netzero
Head of AI
Tree level intelligence for reforestation: species, trunk diameter, height and carbon for every planted tree, joined with satellite monitoring of whole sites. Our focus is dryland forests, where most global tools fall short.
Sada
Cofounder
A studio that builds digital products with social impact. Five apps so far, from Quran memorisation plans to a volunteer platform for desert search and rescue.
Research
KFUPM
Measuring the trunk diameter of a tree from one ordinary photo, by teaching a depth model what trunks look like up close.
Selected work
- Netzero AI platformNetzero · 2023 to nowComputer vision for tree identification, detection and measurement, satellite indices for site health, and the data pipelines and MLOps behind them, served to web and mobile apps.
- EnjadProduct manager · 2023A volunteer platform that coordinates desert rescue missions for people stranded in remote areas. It now operates as an entity under the Ministry of Defence.
- MufassalCofounderPersonal Quran recitation plans with progress tracking. More than 200,000 active users, sponsored by the Tafseer Center.
- SakanSadaA complete platform for marriage in Saudi Arabia, built around privacy and family involvement.
- Tahadi Al QuraaSadaA reading challenge app where groups read together, compete and keep each other going.
- Baby & MamaCofounderPregnancy milestones and due dates with trusted guidance for expecting parents. More than 5,000 active users.
- LafzPersonalYouTube to text with every word tied to its second in the audio, and a measured check of how well it is aligned.
- Ibn al Qayyim LibraryPersonalThirty four books of Ibn al Qayyim as a reader with page scans, indexes and search that understands meaning.
Experience
Head of AI · Netzero
Set the AI strategy and built the department from scratch to ten AI engineers, data scientists and pipeline engineers. Own the platform, the roadmap, hiring and the link between field experts and engineering.
2025 to now
Founding Software Engineer, AI and ML · Netzero
First AI engineer. Built the infrastructure, data pipelines and the first computer vision models for tree analysis and carbon calculation.
2023 to 2025
Product Manager · Kar
Product strategy, market research and roadmap. Ran the engineering team in sprints from requirement to release.
2023
Product Manager · Enjad
Led frontend, backend and design teams to deliver the rescue platform, with steady reporting to stakeholders.
2023
Software Engineer · Garage
Built a car services product from scratch: backend architecture, database design and documentation.
2022 to 2023
Undergraduate Researcher · KFUPM
Cybercrime detection with machine learning: spam and intrusion detection with feature selection.
2022
Research
Tree diameter from a single photo
Diameter at breast height is the core number in forest carbon. Measuring it from an image needs the trunk width in pixels and the distance to the trunk. The width is solved well by segmentation; the distance from one photo is the hard part. My thesis fine tunes a strong metric depth model on trunk scenes, supervised by a low cost depth camera, so that afterwards an ordinary photo is enough.
- frames, each label reviewed by hand
- 4,518frames, each label reviewed by hand
- field days, split by day
- 13field days, split by day
- trees measured with calipers
- 30trees measured with calipers
Master's thesis, KFUPM, 2026. Two papers in preparation.
How I work
Measure first
A claim needs a number behind it, and the number needs a way to be checked.
Honest ranges
Nature varies. A good range is worth more than a precise looking guess.
Rules that travel
Solutions should hold on data they have never seen, not only on the test set.
Small teams, real users
Ship early, sit with the people using it, then improve what matters to them.
Education
MSc, Computer Science, AI and Machine Learning
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Computer vision and deep learning.
2026
BSc, Software Engineering
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Concentration in AI and Machine Learning. GPA 3.96 of 4.
2023
Contact
For work, research or a project worth building.