CV
Education
- B.S. in Communications and Electronics Engineering, Alexandria University, 2024
- Associate Degree in AWS Cloud Services, National Telecommunication Institute (NTI)
Work Experience
AI Work Experience
- Oct 2025 - Present: AI Engineer
- Leap Event Technology, United States (Remote)
- Designed agentic AI automation solutions using Google ADK, OpenAI APIs, and OpenAI Agents SDK to streamline workflows for software engineers and event operators managing large-scale events with thousands of attendees and multi-million-dollar venues and marketing budgets
- Delivered real-time insights, analytics, and automated reports that enable event owners and internal teams to make intelligent, data-driven decisions, reduce operational costs, and optimize resource allocation
- Built evaluation and benchmarking frameworks for AI agents using RAG pipelines and Arize Phoenix, ensuring reliability, accuracy, and observability of production AI systems
- Optimized LLM inference and reasoning pipelines for low-latency multi-step task automation, supporting intelligent decision-making, targeted marketing, and personalized customer experiences based on live and historical event data
- Oct 2023 - Aug 2024: Team Leader, AI & Software Engineer
- Valeo (Graduation Project), Cairo, Egypt
- Developed real-time, multimodal AI systems for BCI-controlled robotics, integrating vision, signal processing, and sensor data for reasoning and decision-making
- Optimized TensorFlow models for edge deployment, converting to TensorFlow Lite with CUDA acceleration, achieving 78% latency reduction while maintaining model accuracy on resource-constrained devices
- Led a cross-functional team of 5 engineers, coordinating between hardware, software, and AI components to deliver an integrated BCI robotics system
- Aug 2023 - Oct 2024: AI Mentor & Software Engineer
- Made in Alexandria (M.I.A) Robotics Team
- Co-founded AI team specializing in computer vision and NLP, mentoring newcomers in AI and software development
- Designed and developed control software systems and GUIs using Node.js and Svelte for ROV and AUV Autonomous Underwater Vehicle systems
- Implemented real-time object detection and tracking algorithms for underwater navigation and obstacle avoidance
Publications
- Latent Action Pretraining Through World Modeling (Submitted to ICRA 2026)
- Authors: Bahey Tharwat, Yara Nasser, Ali Abouzied, Ian Reid
- Supervised by Prof. Ian D. Reid, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
- arXiv Paper
Software Development Experience
- Feb 2025 - Oct 2025: Python Backend Developer
- Bit68, Cairo, Egypt (Hybrid)
- Developed and maintained scalable backend services using Django REST Framework, delivering high-performance APIs for mobile applications, e-commerce platforms, and Facility Management Systems
- Optimized database queries and caching strategies to improve response times and overall API performance
- Implemented RESTful APIs with proper authentication, authorization, and rate limiting for production applications
- Oct 2022 - Jun 2024: Django Full Stack Developer
- Creatio Software Company, Australia (Remote)
- Developed features for Barcats hospitality jobs platform, using Django and SQL for reporting, integrated Stripe for payments, and maintained Sentry for bug tracking
- Collaborated with design and engineering teammates to identify customer-facing ML solutions, including building a job recommendation system tailored to user preferences and behavior
- Implemented matching logic and ranking algorithms to improve job relevance, boosting user engagement on the platform by 35%
- Built data pipelines for collecting and processing user interaction data to train and evaluate recommendation models
- Jul 2023 - Oct 2023: Backend Developer Intern
- Trianglz Software Company, Alexandria, Egypt (Onsite)
- Built backend solutions with Ruby on Rails and ElasticSearch for mobile applications
- Contributed to the Proline event planning app and Techne Summit with machine learning-based recommendations
- Implemented search functionality using ElasticSearch, improving search response times by 60%
- Worked with Redis for caching and background job processing using Sidekiq
Skills
- AI & Machine Learning
- Deep Learning Frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Keras, Hugging Face Transformers
- AI Systems: Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodal Models, Agentic AI, MCP, RAG
- Computer Vision & NLP
- ML Infrastructure & Deployment
- Inference: vLLM, Ollama, TensorRT, TensorFlow Lite, ONNX Runtime, Triton Inference Server
- Optimization: CUDA, cuDNN, Mixed Precision Training, Gradient Checkpointing, Flash Attention
- Edge Deployment & Model Optimization
- Distributed Training
- PyTorch DDP, DeepSpeed, FSDP
- Multi-GPU/Multi-Node Training
- Model Parallelism
- Programming Languages
- Python (Expert), C++, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, MATLAB, Bash
- Web Development
- Backend: Django, Django REST Framework, Ruby on Rails
- Frontend: React, Node.js, Svelte
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Vector Databases, ElasticSearch, Redis
- MLOps & Cloud
- Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, SageMaker)
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
- Tools: Git, CI/CD, Weights & Biases, Arize Phoenix, Sentry
- Languages
- Arabic (Native)
- English (Fluent)
- French (Intermediate)
Certificates
- Deep Learning Specialization - Coursera (Andrew Ng)
- Fundamentals of Distributed Systems - Udemy
- Agentic Knowledge Graph Construction - DeepLearning.AI
- Evaluating AI Agents - Arize AI & DeepLearning.AI
- Data Analysis Professional Track - Udacity
- META Back-end Web Development Professional Certificate - Coursera
- Machine Learning in Production - DeepLearning.AI
Honors & Awards
- 1st Place - MATE Competition Regional 2024 (Advanced to Tennessee, USA)
- 4th Place International - MATE Competition 2024
- 1st Place - AUV Category at 2024 Underwater Robotics Challenge
- Nominated to attend IROS 2024 in the UAE (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems)
- 2nd Place - 2024 NOAA Ocean Exploration Challenge using Computer Vision
All awards achieved as part of Made in Alexandria (M.I.A) Technical Team
Projects
For a complete list of projects, please visit my Portfolio page.