AI Architect & independent consultant · Singapore

Thoughtful systems.
Useful technology.

I’m Nasrudin. I help teams turn AI ideas into dependable systems. I also write about judgement, philosophy and living well.

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An architect’s perspective. A practitioner’s involvement.
Always something more to learn.

My work has taken me through banking, machine learning operations and venture building.

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Conversations beyond this site

Interviews & press

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Nasrudin Salim, featured in The Straits Times

The Straits Times7 November 2022

Bright spots in local tech hiring buck global gloom

Nasrudin’s path into banking AI, within Singapore’s wider technology hiring story.

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In-Sight Publishing8 June 2025

Daniel Shea and Nasrudin Salim on Chatoyance

A conversation about building Chatoyance, social trading, and the role of machine learning in developing investment strategies.

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Working together

Clarity before complexity.

Engage me directly for independent consulting, alongside my work building ventures at Replikate Labs.

AI architecture & strategy

Make the important decisions early: what to build, how it fits your business, and which trade-offs you can live with.

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From idea to working system

Hands-on help with agents, data systems, evaluation and implementation, working alongside your team.

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Teaching & technical guidance

Workshops and ongoing conversations that help people understand the tools and make their own good decisions.

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For a focused question or a block of engineering time, explore research and engineering engagements.

Notes from practice

Technology & engineering

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Engineering notes

Before you build an agent

Start with a bounded job, a clear measure of success and a way to recover when the system gets it wrong.

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Designing checks around AI systems

A practical extension of HyperSanity: evidence, independent checks and the cost of mistakes in an AI workflow.

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Philosophy & judgement

Thinking clearly.
Living deliberately.

Questions about how we know, what we value, and how to act when certainty is unavailable.

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Featured essay

HyperSanity

On fallible minds, independent checks, and decisions that answer to reality.

“Do not relocate trust. Diversify the ways it can fail.”

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Ebooks

The Principled Life

Short books on family, relationships and work. Twenty principles at a time, written to return to.

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A useful conversation starts with a real problem.

If you’re working through an AI decision, a difficult system or an idea worth testing, I’d be glad to talk.

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Thoughtful systems.Useful technology.