AI engineer & principal consultant — agentic systems that hold up in production
InertialRange Labs AB is the consulting practice of Farrukh Nauman, PhD. I design and ship AI-agent systems — Text-to-SQL, coding agents, evaluation harnesses, tool contracts — wired to production data platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, and SQL databases.
I build the thing and write the code, with the test discipline and result-level evaluation that make agents trustworthy in production — not slide decks. When an engagement needs it, I also take interim / fractional leadership of data and AI teams.
Recent outcomes
~1 week
Cross-platform migration validator — zero to live dashboard (Databricks → Snowflake).
5–10× faster · 50%+ cheaper
SQL pipeline optimization with row-level correctness validation.
10–100× faster
Time series classification for industrial telemetry and edge deployment.
For worked case studies and writing, see fnauman.com · selected work →
How to engage
From a two-week audit to a multi-month interim lead — sized to the problem, with clear scope and acceptance criteria up front.
- 2-week Discovery — data readiness, prioritized opportunity map, success metrics.
- 4-week Pilot — fixed scope, acceptance criteria, working build, handoff plan.
- Hands-on AI engineering — embedded delivery of agents, guardrails, evals, and tool contracts.
- Fractional / interim lead — senior technical leadership for data & AI teams.
Farrukh Nauman, PhD — currently interim Data Science & Advanced Analytics team lead at a global industrial manufacturer (Sep 2025 – Jun 2026). Former AI researcher/consultant at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, and research scientist at the Niels Bohr Institute and Chalmers. More about the company →
Next step
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Or email: farrukh.nauman@inertialrange.com