Resume

MUHAMMAD ARIF BIN FAZIL · BORN PENANG 1990

Geologist. 13 years finding oil under the sea. Builder of AI systems that tell the truth.

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Education: University of Wisconsin–Madison (Geology & Geophysics + Economics)
Contact: [email protected]

Career

2023 — PRESENT
Senior Exploration Geoscientist
PETRONAS · Offshore Malaysia

Four wells led. Four flowed. Parallel work on arifOS — applying field discipline to AI governance. BEKANTAN-1 — shallowest flowing oil discovery, Malay Basin.

2019 — 2022
Exploration Lead
PETRONAS · Malay Basin, Sabah, Deepwater

Owning prospect recommendations from concept to drilling decision. Basin analysis across mature and frontier plays. First well led and flowed.

2015 — 2018
Geoscientist — Basin Analysis
PETRONAS · Malay Basin

Seismic interpretation, prospect evaluation, and basin modelling across the Malay Basin. Learning that most easy oil was found decades ago — what remains requires better thinking.

2013
Joined PETRONAS
Kuala Lumpur

Fresh graduate. First posting. Learning to read seismic data — patterns in reflected sound waves mapping geology thousands of metres underground.

What I Build

arifOS

Constitutional AI governance kernel. 13 floors enforcing truth, reversibility, and bounded action. Open source on PyPI.

GEOX

Geological intelligence platform. Macrostrat integration, seismic interpretation, basin analysis tools.

MakcikGPT

Civic journalism in Bahasa Makcik. 30 articles on Malaysian sovereignty, resources, and accountability.

Writing

40 essays on AI governance, institutions, and the path to AGI. Constitutional reading room.

Skills

Seismic Interpretation Basin Analysis Prospect Evaluation AVO Analysis Well Planning Economic Evaluation Python TypeScript AI Governance Systems Architecture MCP Protocol FastAPI