Team

Builders, operators and specialist advisers.

FastSME combines experience in enterprise delivery, open-source engineering, AI, fintech, healthcare and digital operations.

Core team
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Kamel Belkadhi

Director of Engineering

Data engineer and entrepreneur. Former Senior Data Engineer at DSM and ex-McKinsey Data Engineering, with experience across AI, data pipelines and platform engineering.

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Julian Kaljuvee

Director & AI Engineer

BSc Applied Mathematics from Harvard and graduate study in statistics at Columbia. Former Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS and JPMorgan; delivered AI programmes in Microsoft's Industry Solutions Delivery group.

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Raslen Guesmi

Data Scientist / ML Engineer

Applied machine learning across document intelligence, forecasting and structured extraction.

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Siwei Feng

AI Engineer / Data Scientist

Agentic systems, retrieval pipelines and production LLM deployment.

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Patrick Hermann

AI Engineer

Builder of AI agents, autonomous systems and healthcare technology. Former co-founder and CTO of Detectra, with experience spanning ML, FHIR infrastructure and clinical pilots.

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Daniel Raissar

AI Product & Operations

Founder, COO and product operator across AI, Web3 and regulated fintech, with experience taking complex platforms from roadmap to market.

CX

Chenhao Xue

Quantitative Research Consultant

Time-series modelling, portfolio analytics and research tooling.

Advisory board

Experience around the table.

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Selahaddin Karatas

Advisor โ€” Identity & Cybersecurity

San Francisco-based founder and CEO of SAASPASS, building passwordless identity and access management across MFA, single sign-on, password management, endpoints, cloud applications and enterprise infrastructure.

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Innar Liiv

Advisor โ€” Data Science & e-Government

Professor of Multidisciplinary Big Data and Associate Professor of Data Science at TalTech. His work spans data science, algorithmic governance and technology transfer.

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Philippe Dardier

Advisor โ€” Capital Markets & Fintech

Investment banker and fintech specialist with 25+ years across BNP Paribas and Merrill Lynch; co-founder of France FinTech and an active technology investor.

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Henrik Aavik

Advisor โ€” GovTech & AI

Internet-economy pioneer with three decades across e-commerce, GovTech and AI. CEO of Tendly and founder of uku.ai.

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Ain Aaviksoo

Advisor โ€” Digital Health & Policy

Physician and public-health strategist with 25 years in health-system digitisation, including senior roles in Estonia's Ministry of Social Affairs and Guardtime.