Experience

Shopify · Montreal, Canada (Remote)

July 2025 – Present

• › Own and lead large-scale recommendation projects for the Shop app, serving millions of users
• › Collaborate across teams and stakeholders to design and ship ML-driven features
• › Mentor junior engineers and support their career development
• › Build AI-assisted tooling including agents and MCP servers to accelerate team velocity

BenchSci · Montreal, Canada (Remote)

October 2022 – July 2025

• › R&D with ML models and LLMs in the pharmaceutical domain
• › Own, plan, and manage projects and services end-to-end
• › Lead multi-disciplinary teams as Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) on various initiatives
• › Consistently one of the highest performers per annual performance reviews
• › Engage stakeholders to set expectations, drive planning, and present results

MarketMuse · Montreal, Canada (Remote)

January 2019 – October 2022

• › Built one of the very first efficient NLG content writers in the market: created the dataset from the entire web, built a custom Transformers model, designed custom evaluation metrics, and delivered full deployment & UI
• › Built a search user-intent classifier with a proprietary data-labeling platform
• › Built information extraction and question-answering tools to construct knowledge banks from the web
• › Built and maintained backend services delivering ML products at scale
• › Owned, led, planned, and managed projects and services

AOA Dx · Montreal, Canada (Remote)

August 2021 – September 2022

• › Provided data science and modelling expertise for ovarian cancer diagnosis research
• › Co-authored peer-reviewed publication in Frontiers in Oncology on GD2/GD3 gangliosides as diagnostic biomarkers for epithelial ovarian cancer

PayMob Solutions · Cairo, Egypt (Remote)

August 2017 – April 2019

• › Built an alternative credit-scoring system for the unbanked population using phone data, social-media signals, and network transaction history
• › Analyzed millions of daily financial data points to drive business decisions
• › Modelled customer churn ("death events") and designed targeted offers to increase retention

Mansoura University – CS Department · Mansoura, Egypt

2012 – 2017

• › Instructed programming labs for undergraduate CS students
• › Led ML research groups that generated revenue for the department
• › Mentored high-potential students whose grad projects won national competitions

Freelancer.com · Online

2009 – 2017

• › Delivered diverse software projects across desktop, web, and mobile platforms
• › Maintained a 4.9 / 5 reputation with a 100 % On-Time rating