{"slug": "how-i-built-production-grade-ai-systems-while-still-a-student", "title": "How I Built Production-Grade AI Systems While Still a Student", "summary": "Nader Al Shawki, a final-year AI Engineering student at Al-Razi University in Yemen, has built several production-grade AI systems including a tomato leaf disease detection platform using YOLOv8 and FastAPI, a pneumonia detection system with PyTorch, and a face detection and emotion recognition system. He is currently learning LLMs, RAG, LangChain, and AI agents.", "body_md": "#\n🚀 Hello, DEV Community!\n\nI'm **Nader Al Shawki**, a final-year **AI Engineering** student at Al-Razi University, Yemen. This is my first post here, and I'm excited to start sharing my journey with this amazing community.\n\n##\n🎯 Who Am I?\n\nI'm passionate about building **production-grade AI systems** that solve real-world problems. My main areas of focus are:\n\n- 🖼️\n**Computer Vision & Deep Learning**\n- 🤖\n**ML Model Deployment** (Docker, FastAPI, REST APIs)\n- 🧠\n**LLMs, RAG, and AI Agents** (currently learning)\n- 📊\n**Data Visualization & Analytics** (Power BI)\n\n##\n💡 What I've Built So Far\n\n###\n1. 🍅 Tomato Leaf Disease Detection Platform\n\n-\n**Tech:** YOLOv8, PyTorch, FastAPI, Docker\n-\n**What it does:** Detects tomato leaf diseases from images with real-time inference. Containerized with Docker for easy deployment.\n\n###\n2. 🫁 Pneumonia Detection System\n\n-\n**Tech:** PyTorch, CNN Architecture, Medical Imaging\n-\n**What it does:** A deep learning model that detects pneumonia from chest X-ray images.\n\n###\n3. 📊 Sales Profit Analysis Dashboard\n\n-\n**Tech:** Power BI, DAX, Data Analysis\n-\n**What it does:** Interactive dashboard for tracking sales KPIs.\n\n###\n4. 😀 Face Detection & Emotion Recognition\n\n-\n**Tech:** OpenCV, Deep Learning\n-\n**What it does:** Real-time face detection, age estimation, emotion recognition, and gender classification.\n\n###\n5. 🍽️ Restaurant Website\n\n-\n**Tech:** HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript\n-\n**What it does:** Fully responsive restaurant website with interactive UI.\n\n##\n🌱 What I'm Currently Learning\n\n-\n**LLMs** (Large Language Models)\n-\n**RAG** (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)\n**LangChain & AI Agents**\n- Workflow automation with\n**n8n**\n\n##\n🔗 Let's Connect\n\nThanks for reading! I'll be posting regularly about AI projects, tutorials, and lessons learned. Stay tuned! 🚀", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-i-built-production-grade-ai-systems-while-still-a-student", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/nader_alshawki_116fa06b4/how-i-built-production-grade-ai-systems-while-still-a-student-5g03", "published_at": "2026-06-16 12:37:57+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-16 12:47:09.715387+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["computer-vision", "machine-learning", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Nader Al Shawki", "Al-Razi University", "YOLOv8", "PyTorch", "FastAPI", "Docker", "OpenCV", "Power BI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-i-built-production-grade-ai-systems-while-still-a-student", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-i-built-production-grade-ai-systems-while-still-a-student.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-i-built-production-grade-ai-systems-while-still-a-student.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-i-built-production-grade-ai-systems-while-still-a-student.jsonld"}}