Mohammed Bukhari
The short version
Aerospace engineering at UC Berkeley, Class of 2027. A space-safety startup I co-founded, a fintech unicorn’s 2027 talent strategy, and the AI growth systems at SCET.
What I bring to a team
Tech
Prototypes and specs
From a written spec to a prototype people can click through.
Tech
AI pipelines
An AI pipeline that researched and verified partner contacts, so every email rested on checked facts.
Both
Data and attribution
An attribution model that shows the return on ad spend of SCET’s executive education partnerships, so leadership can fund them on proven return.
Business
Customer discovery
I’d rather knock on a door than guess.
Business
Strategy
One strategy for every way Tamara meets young talent, written for its talent acquisition and operations leads.
At a glance
- Now
- Co-founder of AynX since October 2025. AI product manager at UC Berkeley’s SCET since September 2025, after starting there in operations in June 2025. External consultant to Tamara’s talent team since August 2026.
- Before
- A summer on Tamara’s talent team in Riyadh. Operations at SCET. Five competitions since 2025, placed in four.
- School
- Aerospace engineering, UC Berkeley, Class of 2027. GPA 3.5 / 4.0.
- Languages
- Arabic (native) and English (fluent). My work has run between California and Riyadh.
What I’ve built
Sixteen months, twelve milestones, from a stage in Seoul to a fintech unicorn’s 2027 strategy.
June 2025
SkipLab
1st Place and $7,000 at the AFI Global Idea Challenge in Seoul
June 2025
SCET, UC Berkeley
Joined in operations, then became its AI product manager
October 2025
AynX
Co-founded AynX, which reached the finals of the Saudi Space Agency’s DebriSolver
December 2025
AynX paper
Sole author of the final competition paper
January 2026
Rasma
One of 13 picked from more than 150 Big Ideas proposals
February 2026
EmberSafe
Top team in the wildfire track, then a pitch at Berkeley SkyDeck
April 2026
AynX prototype
A clickable prototype, deployed on sample data
April 2026
MoH × HyperPay
3rd place in the case competition at Berkeley Haas
June 2026
Tamara, Riyadh
Joined the talent brand and partnerships team as an intern
August 2026
Berkeley in Riyadh
The bootcamp ran, and seven student teams pitched
September 2026
Sitters
1st Place at the Anthropic Hackathon
September 2026
Tamara’s 2027 strategy
Written, with its first hackathon designed, as a consultant they kept on
Background
Education
- Degree
- B.S. Aerospace Engineering
- School
- University of California, Berkeley
- Years
- 2023 to May 2027 (expected)
- GPA
- 3.5 / 4.0
Tools
- Building
- Next.js and TypeScript, with the latest web and AI tools, from a written spec to a deployed app
- Analytics and automation
- Advanced Excel, SQL, Python and OpenAI
- Sourcing and growth
- LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Greenhouse and HubSpot: prospecting, lead nurturing, lead scoring and routing, AI enrichment and outreach pipelines, SEO and AI-search audits
For the person introducing me
Mohammed Bukhari studies aerospace engineering at UC Berkeley, Class of 2027. He co-founded AynX, a satellite collision-avoidance startup that reached the finals of the Saudi Space Agency’s DebriSolver competition, wrote Tamara’s 2027 talent strategy after an internship at the Saudi fintech, and is the AI product manager at UC Berkeley’s SCET. He placed in four of five competitions since 2025.
The story
Economics taught us to specialize: pick one field and go deep. Only then, the story goes, can you build something new.
Yet the Wright brothers’ answer to controlling a wing’s roll came out of their bicycle shop.
I learn how one world works, then use it to build in another.
A satellite protocol that borrows its key idea from connected-car security. AynX
Sources
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776), book 1, chapter 1.
Ten workers who split the steps could make “upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day”; alone and untrained, each “could not ... have made twenty”. Smith credits invention to attention “directed towards that single object”, and in the same chapter to people “capable of combining together the powers of the most distant and dissimilar objects”.
The Henry Ford, “What if bicycles held the secret to human flight?”
In July 1899, alone in the cycle shop, Wilbur Wright twisted a bicycle inner-tube box and saw how twisting a wing would let a pilot control roll. “The bicycle business clarified the problem of controlling roll, and ultimately, flight.”
Contact
Thank you for staying until the end. You’re awesome.
Email is the best way to reach me. LinkedIn works too.
Updated , from Berkeley. It is in Berkeley and in Riyadh.