Ali Lahiji
AI Automation Engineer · Healthcare IT
I build HIPAA-compliant AI and automation for hospitals — from HL7 feeds to private LLMs — and I speak clinician.
Texas, USA · Remote · Open to GCC
production systems in daily clinical & ops use
promotions in 18 months — Intern → Associate → Engineer
hospital IT departments rotated through
+ FHIR
Azure AI Engineer & HL7 FHIR Fundamentals
ORBIT
Barcode inventory & preference-card platform for the OR — RBAC, SSO, HL7 and Infor ERP integration, multi-site.
522 / 528 · 99th percentile · pre-clinical medicine
- CertifiedAzure AI-102 · HL7 FHIR
- DailyPython · SQL Server · Azure · HL7 v2
- StrongestAI / LLM · Healthcare interoperability · Automation
Mission Control
Real-time patient-flow dashboard fed by HL7 ADT through a .NET TCP listener into SQL Server.
- A01Admit ED → 4N-1209:41
- A02Transfer ICU-3 → 5W-0809:43
- A03Discharge 2S-0409:47
- A08Update 3E-2109:52
UTC−5working GCC hoursUTC+4
North Star
Task & project management for hospital leadership. Migrated Flask → Azure Web App + Azure SQL; passed internal security review.
Side venture · FounderLuigi AI LLC
Registered Texas LLC, Feb 2026. AI automation & custom software consulting for clinics and small teams.
- Claude Architect Foundations certificationin progress
- MATH 207 & 208 · Intro to Programming — University of North DakotaFall 2026
- Python Certification + data-science elective — UC San Diego2026
Open to: remote US roles · Dubai / GCC · Healthcare AI · Applied AI · Automation · Integration engineering · Clinical informatics
Swipe between systems
ORBIT
Operating-room barcode inventory and preference-card platform, live across multiple hospital sites.
STACKPythonSQL ServerIISHL7 v2Infor ERPRBAC / SSO
Rolled out from the main campus to Women's Hospital and PAR.
Mission Control
Real-time patient-flow dashboard fed by the hospital's HL7 ADT stream.
STACK.NETTCP / MLLP listenerHL7 ADTSQL ServerWeb dashboard
Launched December 2025; gave leadership a single live screen for patient flow and became the base for later alerting work.
North Star
Leadership task and project-management platform, migrated from a laptop Flask app to Azure.
STACKFlaskAzure Web AppAzure SQLPython
Adopted by leadership as the tracking system for organisational priorities; passed internal security review on handoff.
AI Call Center
Voice agent pipeline: speech-to-text → retrieval-grounded answers → text-to-speech → routing.
STACKLangChainSpeech-to-textVector searchText-to-speechPython
Prototype-to-pilot pipeline that answers routine questions automatically and hands off cleanly to staff.
Private LLM (air-gapped)
On-network large language model with zero external egress for PHI-adjacent work.
STACKLinuxDockerOllamaOpen-WebUI
Secure, self-hosted AI available to approved staff; foundation for later RAG work over internal documents.
FHIR Sepsis Alerts
FHIR server application with capability-statement generation, built for sepsis alerting.
STACKHL7 v2FHIR R4PythonREST
Standards-based alerting service that positions the hospital for its upcoming Cerner/OCI migration.
More systems6 entries · 18+ shipped in the first 4 months
- SYS-07CLAIMS RPARobotic process automation for claims workflows, expanded across additional use cases in 2026.Python · RPA · SQLLive
- SYS-08365 ManagerMicrosoft 365 licence and inventory manager; went live December 2025 and presented to the server and help-desk teams.Python · Microsoft Graph · SQLLive · Dec 2025
- SYS-09DuMbSheetsInternal dynamic form builder that replaced paper and spreadsheet forms.Python web app · SQLLive
- SYS-10Paragon Registration RPAGUI automation that fills EHR registration from Excel using PyWinAuto.PyWinAuto · pandasBatch
- SYS-11Medisoft Rules ParserData-transformation pipeline (dictionaries → pandas → export) that enabled a billing-system transition.pandas · PythonComplete
- SYS-12Luigi AIRegistered Texas LLC (Feb 2026): AI automation and custom software consulting for clinics and small teams. luigiai.dev Visit luigiai.dev ↗Web · LLM toolingVenture
02Skills readout
5 subsystems · signal strength
- CertifiedAzure AI-102 · HL7 FHIR Fundamentals
- Daily driversPython · SQL Server · Azure · HL7 v2
- PracticesGit, modular architecture, RBAC/SSO, security reviews, go-live support, executive presentations
- LanguagesEnglish (native) · Farsi / Persian (fluent)
Signal strength5 subsystems
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May 2026 — PresentRemote
AI Automation Engineer
DHR Health · 500+ bed health system, South Texas
- Lead AI & automation projects and set development standards for the AI team.
- Designed, built and hosted North Star on Azure; passed internal security review.
- Built the AI Call Center pipeline (LangChain) and deployed a private, air-gapped LLM.
- Maintain and extend CLAIMS RPA and ORBIT patient charging.
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Sep 2025 — May 2026McAllen, TX
Associate AI Automation Engineer
DHR Health
- Co-designed ORBIT (SQL Server, Python on IIS, RBAC, SSO, HL7, Infor) and scaled it to multiple sites.
- Built Mission Control (HL7 ADT → .NET TCP listener) and led the FHIR sepsis-alert server app.
- Shipped 18+ production solutions in 4 months; shadowed OR staff at go-live and fixed defects same-day.
- Absorbed interim coordination duties after the CIO's departure; presented to executive IT leadership.
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Nov 2024 — Sep 2025
IT Systems Analyst — intern → full rotation
DHR Health
- Rotated through Integration, Server Administration, Network Security, Applications Development, Help Desk and Service Desk.
- Selected for the newly formed AI team on performance.
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2021 — 2024The pivot
Pre-clinical medical curriculum
UT Health San Antonio, Long School of Medicine · admitted on a 522 MCAT
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2020 — 2021
Research Associate
Doctors Hospital at Renaissance
- Clinical trials including the Zika Virus DNA Vaccine Phase 2/2B (VRC 705).
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2018 — 2020Virtual
MCAT Mastery Tutor
Independent
Medicine → hospital IT → AI, in 18 months.
Pre-clinical medicine on a top-1% MCAT, then clinical research. Joined DHR Health as an IT intern, rotated through six departments, and was picked for the new AI team — where two promotions later I lead the hospital's AI & automation work.
The edge: I know what a preference card, an ADT feed and a sepsis screen mean to the people who use them.
of first-year developers — internal ranking
production solutions in the first 4 months on the AI team
Education & honors
- Baylor University — B.S. Biology2016 — 2020
Magna Cum Laude · GPA 3.94 / 4.0 · President's Gold Scholarship · Pinkoson Family Pre-Medical Scholarship · F. Ray Wilson Biology Scholarship
- UT Health San Antonio, Long School of Medicine2021 — 2024
Pre-clinical medical curriculum · admitted on a 522 MCAT (99th percentile)
- M.S. Computer Science prerequisites2026
University of North Dakota (MATH 207, MATH 208, Intro to Programming) · UC San Diego Python Certification Program with data-science elective
Artificial Intelligence Derived Body Composition Metrics Are Associated with 24-hour Urine Markers Using Routine CT Imaging
GOLD Journal
VRC 705: A Phase 2/2B Randomized Trial to Evaluate the Safety, Immunogenicity and Efficacy of a Zika Virus DNA Vaccine in Healthy Adults and Adolescents
NIAID · research contributor
The Effect of tln-1 Mutation on the Phenotype of Caenorhabditis elegans
Baylor University
Electrical Field Influence on Growth of Brassica rapa
Scientia · Baylor University