Inbound job applications and volunteer offers

Category: Questions & membership Priority: P2 Area: careers Reports: 10 Status: Open

Summary

Ten engineers, developers, and specialists asked to join the Qaf team or volunteer after the V1 launch: full-time developer applicants with CVs, an AI engineer who shelved his own tafsir platform two weeks before launch because Qaf made it redundant, a freelance AI dev from India, a sales/finance/growth candidate (who also filed useful product feedback), a linguistic expert from the Doha Historical Dictionary of Arabic with corpus-search tooling experience, plus volunteers offering Arabic writing/editing and shar'i research, data science, general Arabic-speaking help, and a 24-year Cisco veteran who suggested free Saudi LLM hosting to cut token costs. Abdellatif consistently replied that the 3-person team has engineering covered ("Our CTO is working 24/7", "with Claude Code we're covered") and asked nearly everyone for permission to reach out later — several with concrete windows (Moumen: ~3 months for AI-answer quality work; Omar Rayan: 2-3 months for research/answer-qualification). This cluster is effectively a pre-vetted talent pipeline; it needs a tracked list with the promised follow-up dates and a canned careers reply.

What users say

Ahmed Khaled ahmedk4720@gmail.com — 2026-08-22, English, 1a0293fd381ad60a (replied)

Software developer, open to full-time paid or part-time volunteer, CV attached (signs as Ahmed Habiba). Reply: not hiring, will reach out when hiring.

I’m reaching out because I would love to explore the possibility of working with your team as a software developer.

Faheem Ahmad fisforfaheem@gmail.com — 2026-08-07, English, 19fd8f5ad6c75298 (replied)

Expresses interest in joining, resume attached, asks about openings and next steps. Reply: engineering covered. He answered he is open to any field, even non-engineering.

Could you please let me know if there are any current openings or what the next steps would be to apply? I have attached my resume for your review.

Giacomo Le Bourgeois giacomo.lebourgeois@gmail.com — 2026-08-12, English, 19ff796cb7da18d3 (replied)

French/Italian revert of two years, Mathematical Finance (Paris) + Master in Management (Spain), ex-Hilti Sales and Finance; daily Qaf user. Also reported three product issues (answers cut off unpredictably; research "stops thinking" then finishes hours later; unnatural French/Spanish translations — Abdellatif asked him for a correction spreadsheet since translations are machine-generated). Abdellatif: "you're on my radar now... I can reach out once we're looking for our first hire."

if you ever need someone on Sales, Finance, Growth or Operations — either now in six months, or ever — I’d love to be on your radar

Ibrahim Alzaylaee alzaylaee8@gmail.com — 2026-08-16, Arabic, 1a00a56b4eef7ba1 (replied)

AI engineer who was two weeks from launching his own tafsir platform and stopped after seeing Qaf covered most of it. Wants to join to share in the reward. Reply: engineering/research capacity is sufficient; he agreed to be contacted when help is needed.

وأرغب مشاركتي الأجر معكم بالانضمام معكم في فريق العمل القائم على قاف إن سمحتم بذلك ولي الشرف

I would like to share in the reward with you by joining the team working on Qaf, if you allow it — it would be my honor.

Abdul Aziz M. Abullais zizo786@gmail.com — 2026-08-12, English, 19ff54c64d3bcd3d (replied)

Freelance developer and AI engineer from India (zizo.dev), found Qaf via a video on X. Reply: CTO covers engineering; agreed to be contacted when scaling and shared LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/zizo786) and portfolio.

I'm writing this to show my interest, if you have any collaboration ideas or need team members, please let me know; I would love to be a part of the team!

Ayman Ben Nji ayman.bennji@dohainstitute.edu.qa — 2026-08-17, Arabic, 1a00e7959158b27f (replied)

Linguistic expert at the Doha Historical Dictionary of Arabic (Qatar). Praised the app enthusiastically, then asked to work with the team; described experience in linguistic corpora and a Shamela-like research library supporting root/morphological-pattern/regex/embedding search (screenshots attached). Abdellatif: team sufficient for now, will email when scaling; noted Qaf will soon need to improve search precision — directly relevant to his skill set.

هل يمكنني العمل معكم؟

Can I work with you?

Moumen Abd Alkadr Alkhateb Alhasani ma1910156@student.qu.edu.qa — 2026-08-06, Arabic, 19fd6a8efae98387 (replied)

Qatar University student and early user; wrote an eloquent congratulation on V1 and offered to volunteer in Arabic writing, editing, and shar'i research. Abdellatif asked to reconnect in ~3 months when the team works on AI improvement and needs specialists; Moumen agreed.

وأكتب إليكم اليوم لا لأهنئكم فحسب، بل لأعرض عليكم نفسي خادمًا لهذا المشروع؛ متطوعًا بما أحسن من الكتابة والتحرير، والبحث الشرعي

I write to you today not only to congratulate you, but to offer myself as a servant of this project — volunteering my best in writing, editing, and Islamic legal (shar'i) research.

Mohamed El Moctar Ahmed mokhtarkhalil655@gmail.com — 2026-08-06, English, 19fd77472d4ae51e (replied)

Data scientist (France-based, résumé attached) offering to volunteer on data science/ML/AI product work. Reply: engineering covered, asked to reach back out later; he agreed.

I am writing to express my interest in volunteering and contributing to any current or upcoming projects related to data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or AI product development at Qaf.ai.

Omar Rayan omar.rayan2001@gmail.com — 2026-08-10, English, 19fed9d335bba736 (replied)

Biopharma engineer, fluent Arabic speaker studying Hadith and Quran sciences part-time; daily user of Quran.com and Tarteel. Abdellatif: mostly covered now, but will need help on the research side "qualifying good and bad ai answers" in 2-3 months; Omar agreed.

You guys asked for help so if there’s anything I can do to help, please let me know.

Mawaheb Kabbara mawaheb@hotmail.com — 2026-08-08, Arabic, 19fe04f3da247620 (replied)

Telecom/IT engineer since 1989, 24 years at Cisco, now consulting on national telecom projects in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan; bought an NVIDIA Spark DG to train his own Islamic LLM locally, then found Qaf already doing it. Offered his services and a video call (mawaheb@me.com, +9613887488). In a follow-up he suggested contacting Saudi entities to host the LLM for free to cut token costs and offered to help broker it. Reply: capacity sufficient for now (initial email had gone to spam), will reach out as usage grows.

ما استطيع فعله هو ان اعرض عليكم خدماتي إذا احتجتم اليها ويمكننا ان نناقش ذلك على video conference إذا اردتم

What I can do is offer you my services if you need them, and we can discuss that over video conference if you like.

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