About Abdul Meque
Executive Summary
I’m Abdul Manuel Meque — AI/ML Practice Lead, applied scientist, solutions architect, and entrepreneur. I help organisations adopt AI responsibly, modernise platforms on the cloud, and scale automation. I work end‑to‑end across strategy, architecture, and delivery: from GenAI CoEs and productised offerings to production‑grade systems in telecom, fintech, health, real estate, retail, and public sector.
- Core stack: AWS (Bedrock, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, SageMaker), FastAPI, Laravel, React/Next.js, MLOps, RAG, multi‑agent systems, Voice AI.
- Regions: Africa and LATAM, with a cross‑continental perspective. Based in Mexico; born in Mozambique; global clients. I’m Abdul Meque — Global AI & Cloud Strategist helping organisations adopt AI responsibly, modernise platforms, and scale automation. Born in Mozambique, based in Mexico, and working globally across Africa and LATAM.
Today
I advise leaders on AI strategy, cloud architecture, and engineering execution. I design pragmatic roadmaps, build scalable systems, and upskill teams. I currently lead AI/ML practice initiatives at Nova Cloud (IO Connect Services), shaping vision, offerings, delivery, and talent development. I advise leaders on AI strategy, cloud architecture, and engineering execution. I design pragmatic roadmaps, build scalable systems, and upskill teams.
Journey
From Mozambique to Mexico: academia in NLP and information systems, then industry leadership across consulting and DevOps. Training includes systems integration (University of Trento), research at CNR’s Laboratory of Applied Ontology, and advanced studies in Computer Science in Taiwan and Mexico. From Mozambique to Mexico: academia in NLP and information systems, then industry leadership across consulting and DevOps. Trained in systems integration (University of Trento), research at CNR’s Laboratory of Applied Ontology, and advanced studies in Computer Science in Taiwan and Mexico.
Mission & Vision
- Mission: accelerate AI-enabled transformation with ethical, scalable architectures.
- Vision: Africa and LATAM enterprises leading with AI-first capabilities.
Focus Areas
- AI Strategy & Advisory
- Cloud & Software Engineering
- Enterprise Automation & Scaling
- Team Training & Upskilling
Practice Leadership (Nova Cloud)
- Designed a GenAI Center of Excellence; built an 18‑month onboarding curriculum for AI engineers.
- Productised offerings: AI Contact Center Autopilot (Lex + Bedrock + Connect), Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) with RAG, real‑estate negotiation agent, Voice AI debt collection, GenAI readiness toolkit, AWS‑native RAG stack, multi‑agent document analysis.
- Coordinated talent, governance, and delivery standards.
Research & Academic Work
- PhD (IPN, Mexico) thesis: Automatic Guilt Detection from Social Media Text.
- Datasets: VIC, PoliGuilt, GuReT. Model: GuilBERT for emotion classification.
- Broader: multilingual NMT for low‑resource languages; participation in shared tasks (e.g., COLING).
Multi‑country Experience
Mozambique (origin), Mexico (current), Taiwan & Italy (training), Netherlands (collaboration), U.S. (clients & remote projects).
→ See detailed projects in Selected Work and full details in the CV.
Personal Narrative
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- Team Training & Upskilling
News
August 24th 2022 - Paper accepted for SMMHA 2022
Our submission to the 7th Social Media Mining for Health Applications #SMM4H Shared Task at COLING 2022, was accepted, and will appear in the proceedings of COLING 2022.
August 12th 2022 - Paper accepted for CLEF 2022
Our paper “CIC at CheckThat! 2022: Multi-class and Cross-lingual Fake News Detection” will be published in the Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2022, it depicts our solution to the CheckThat! 2022 shared task.
July 21th 2022 - Our paper was accepted for IberLEF 2022
Our paper tittled “Mexican Spanish Paraphrase Identification using Data Augmentation” presenting our solution for the PAR-MEX shared task has been accepted for publication.
NMTSS partnership with DSD Capital.
With my leadership, NM Technology Services & Solutions is partnering with DSD Capital in Joint Venture to provide Telecom and Business Services in Beira, Backed by Vodacom, SA.
Interactive Multiplatform and Multichanel Messaging-based Networking Application (IM3NSA)
Currently working as Project Manager on a platform that allow enterprises/individuals to visually build, deploy and run SMS applications, usefull for surveys, marketing, campaigning, customer care, and so many other possibility. The project is on being funded by Winrock International under the umbrella of their FEED THE FUTURE RESILIENT AGRICULTURAL MARKETS ACTIVITY Project entitled Feed The Future Resilient Agricultural Markets Activity (RAMA) – Nacala Corridor.
In the first phase we aim at providing small farmers with means to access high quality, affordable, reliable, demand-driven information during the agriculture activity lifecycle along the value chain and railway safety info broadcasts on regular basis.
Moodle Platform Implementation at Instituto Superior de Ciencias e Tecnologias Alberto Chipande
Learning Management System Upgrading for Scripting Academy
One paper is accepted by ICLR 2018.
I will join FAIR as a 2018 summber intern, advised by Kaiming He.