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Umair Majeed is the founder and CEO of Datics AI, an AI and product engineering company he started in Lahore in 2018 and now leads from Austin, Texas. He helps established software companies build AI into the products their customers already rely on.
Umair Majeed is the founder and CEO of Datics AI, an AI and product engineering company. A computer science graduate of FAST-NUCES who went on to study data science at ITU and through UC San Diego's MicroMasters program, he started Datics in Lahore in 2018 and grew it from two people to a team of around sixty-five. Since August 2024 he has led Datics Solutions LLC, the company's U.S. headquarters in Austin, Texas.
His work has been recognized with LCCI's Dynamic Entrepreneur Award (2021), Best LCCI Software House (2022, received from the President of Pakistan), Tech Entrepreneur of The Year at Growth Summit'23, and a place among the 100 Tech Heroes of Pakistan (2023). He served on the Prime Minister's Advisory Council on IT & Digital Economy, sits on the TEVTA Board of Management for its Centers of Excellence, and has judged startup competitions for the Punjab Information Technology Board.
As fractional Chief Development Officer of Coast Technology, he led the technical development of Secure Tax Office, a U.S. property-tax platform adopted by sheriffs' offices in Louisiana and acquired in 2022. He founded Tech Nation, a not-for-profit for South Punjab's technology ecosystem, and is an AWS Certified AI Practitioner and an Upwork Expert-Vetted engineer. Today his focus is Brownfield AI: taking AI from prototype to production inside SaaS products that already work.
Speaking topics
Brownfield AI
How I approach AI in an established SaaS product without a rewrite: what to keep, what to change, and how to get from prototype to production.
From prototype to production
The data access, permissions, evaluation and human approval we put in place to turn an AI demo into something a business can depend on.
Building a global engineering company from scratch
How my brother Umar and I grew Datics AI from my freelance practice in Lahore to a team serving software companies in the U.S. and beyond.
Technology ecosystems outside the big cities
What we learned at Tech Nation about building talent, startups and investment in South Punjab, and why the whole industry needs it.