AI CONSULTING · SECURITY IN MIND
I help businesses turn AI ideas into practical solutions, combining hands-on AI experience with a cybersecurity mindset and a teacher’s ability to make complex concepts clear.
Based in Windsor, Canada · Working remotely across borders
01 / HOW I CAN HELP
Bring a business challenge, a new idea, or a system you want to improve. We’ll work out where AI can help and shape an approach around your goals.
Explore opportunities, test assumptions, and decide what is worth pursuing. Turn an open-ended idea or business challenge into a clear technical direction.
Design, prototype, and build applications around the problem you need to solve. Combine models, data, and software into something people can use.
Understand where existing tools fall short, improve their behavior, and connect AI with the systems and workflows your business already uses.
NOT SURE WHERE TO START?
An assessment is one way to begin. We can explore a new idea, examine a workflow, or review an existing system to decide what is feasible and what to do next.
Discuss an assessment ↗Fixed scope and fee agreed before work begins. Implementation is quoted separately.
SOME POSSIBILITIES
Your project might involve a new application, better use of data, or a different way of working. These examples offer starting points for a conversation.
Custom assistants, content-generation tools, and applications that turn a complex task into a usable experience.
Search across information, classify or analyze data, and connect relevant evidence to the questions people need answered.
Automate repetitive steps, improve customer-service workflows, or test whether an AI system performs well enough for its intended use.
Have a different challenge in mind? Tell me about it ↗
02 / SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Client consulting, applied research, and technical training. Different settings, connected by practical problem-solving.
Emily Conrad · Mar–Jul 2025
Built a content-generation application using fine-tuned OpenAI models and orchestration logic to preserve narrative structure while allowing controlled creative variation.
Read the project sample ↗Athena Security Group · May–Jun 2025
Built a live telemetry pipeline connecting Zeek, Filebeat, Logstash, and Neo4j, with data transformations and graph models for behavioral network analysis.
Explore the implementation ↗AGORA · Université de Tours · 2026
Designed and implemented AGORA, the orchestration component of the co-authored AEDS framework, with hybrid search over approximately 73,000 catalogue records, source attribution, and evaluation workflows.
See the research and prototype ↗Canadian Nuclear Laboratories · 2024
Developed and delivered threat-detection and incident-response training for nuclear energy workers, using industrial-control simulations and MITRE ATT&CK-aligned exercises.
Explore the experience ↗Independent client engagement · Oct 2–12, 2025
Built a Python and Claude API workflow for website classification, with webpage retrieval, prompt iteration, batch processing, and structured CSV output. Developed and evaluated the workflow through sample processing runs.
Inspect actual sample output ↗Independent client engagement · May 2025
Designed and ran manual adversarial prompt tests in cybersecurity scenarios, documenting prompt sequences, refusals, and subsequent model responses through recordings and transcripts.
Explore the project context ↗Independent client engagement · Dec 2024–Mar 2025
Prepared more than 1.5 TB of healthcare data using Python, Pandas, and Azure, handling fragmented inputs and processing beyond local-PC capacity. The engagement supported downstream treatment-cost modelling; my contribution was data preparation.
Read the project brief ↗MITRE ATT&CK guide · Mar 2025
Researched and wrote a practitioner-focused MITRE ATT&CK guide and Enterprise tactics reference, connecting tactics, techniques, and procedures with SOC workflows and practical defensive examples.
Read the original guide ↗PAM & cloud security presentation · Sep 2024
Researched and prepared an educational client presentation explaining privileged access management and cloud access security, connecting security tools, monitoring, scripting, and defensive measures.
View the original presentation ↗03 / THE WAY I WORK
The goal is a solution that fits your work—and a team that understands what it can do, where its limits are, and how to use it.
We clarify the workflow, users, data, and constraints, including how existing tools perform. Then we identify the right change and define what success means.
Data handling, permissions, third-party services, and failure cases are part of the design conversation from the beginning.
We test against agreed use cases, document limitations and costs, and provide the explanations and handover training your team needs to understand and operate the result.
04 / YOUR CONSULTANT
Hi, I’m Salman. I work at the intersection of AI systems, cybersecurity, and technical education.
My experience spans independent client consulting, AI research at Université de Tours, cybersecurity work at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, and three computer science teaching-assistant appointments at the University of Windsor.
I enjoy open-ended problems: understanding an unfamiliar challenge, connecting ideas across disciplines, and developing a solution that fits. My cybersecurity experience shapes how I consider risk, and my teaching background helps me explain the reasoning along the way.
Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours)
AI Specialization · University of Windsor
September 2021–May 2026
A FEW PRACTICAL QUESTIONS
No. Bring the challenge or idea you want to explore. We can clarify the goal, consider possible approaches, and decide whether an assessment, prototype, or another form of support is the right starting point.
Yes. I can review an existing application, model integration, or AI workflow, examine where it falls short, and recommend or implement targeted improvements. The work can address quality, reliability, integrations, usability, or operating costs.
Pricing follows the scope. After an initial conversation, I propose deliverables, milestones, fees, and any ongoing service costs before work begins.
We agree the documentation, walkthroughs, and client training needed as part of the project. My teaching background helps me explain the system clearly, including its limitations and how to operate it. Any ongoing support is scoped separately.
LET’S START WITH YOUR PROBLEM
Tell me what you’re working on, what’s getting in the way, and what a useful outcome would look like.
hello@salmanyoussef.com ↗Windsor, Canada · Remote consulting