The company
InertialRange Labs AB is an AI engineering and data-platform consulting practice run by Farrukh Nauman, PhD, registered in Sweden (Aktiebolag) and based in Linköping.
I work as an AI engineer and principal consultant: I design and ship agentic systems — Text-to-SQL, coding agents, evaluation harnesses, tool contracts — against real schemas and real data on enterprise platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Snowpark, SQL databases). When an engagement needs it, I also take interim / fractional leadership of data and AI teams. Across both, the constant is delivery: enforced retrieval, deterministic guardrails, result-level evaluation, and the test discipline that makes agents trustworthy in production.
Founder
Since August 2025 I’ve been consulting through InertialRange Labs AB. As part of an ongoing engagement, I serve as interim team lead for Data Science & Advanced Analytics (Sep 2025 – Jun 2026) at a global industrial manufacturer, leading a 4–7 person team across telemetry analytics, ML, and GenAI automation — owning the roadmap, stakeholder steering, and technical direction.
Before InertialRange, I held AI researcher and consultant roles at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden (Jul 2021 – Aug 2025), where I led a Vinnova-funded applied AI project on circular fashion (project lead, ~9M SEK) and contributed as AI lead to the EU CISUTAC initiative (~2M SEK). Earlier, I held research positions at Chalmers University of Technology and the Niels Bohr Institute, and completed a PhD in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester.
For my detailed profile, writing, and CV, see fnauman.com, and selected work for worked case studies.
Why this company exists
Most AI and data-platform initiatives fail for predictable reasons: weak validation, underestimated data readiness, and a gap between prototypes and production. InertialRange exists to remove those failure modes with systematic evaluation, clear scope, and delivery-oriented execution.
Running my own company also lets me choose the right engagements — the ones where I can take real ownership and deliver measurable outcomes.