AI Engineer and PhD candidate with 5+ years of experience in designing and deploying production AI systems, specializing in RAG pipelines, LLM agents, and AI governance.
AI Engineer & Program Officer, Knowledge Management
Rabat, Morocco
Jul 2024 - Present
policy center for the new south (pcns)·Full-time
• Authored the institution's AI Ethics & Governance Charter (data classification, human oversight, disclosure protocols), now in v2 and used by 60+ researchers. • Designed and deployed a RAG-based knowledge retrieval chatbot (LangChain, GPT-4o, LLaMA 3.1 70B, FastAPI, Docker) querying internal research, podcasts, and roundtable transcripts. • Built a multilingual translation platform (DeepL + GPT-4o), reducing translation costs by 80% while preserving table formatting. • Developed an automated archiving workflow (Power Automate, email triggers, Python) used institution-wide. • Designed and delivered a 6-hour internal AI training programme for non-technical staff covering LLMs, RAG, agents, prompt engineering, and policy research use cases. • Coordinated a cross-functional team of 4 data scientists to align AI deliverables with departmental needs.
Data Scientist
Remote
Jun 2023 - Jun 2024
sofrecom services morocco / orange luxembourg·Full-time
• Led migration of ML pipelines to GCP (VertexAI, BigQuery, Cloud Functions) in a GDPR-compliant environment with GitLab CI/CD. • Built a customer upsell prediction model (Pre2Post) and an NLP-based address matching algorithm for fiber eligibility scoring.
Data Scientist
Benguerir, Morocco
Apr 2021 - Jun 2023
digital innovation center (um6p)·Full-time
• Led a team of 3 to build Marssad.ma, a real-time labour market intelligence platform (CNSS, ANAPEC, Ministry of Labour data; PySpark, Flask, Power BI). • Developed a vehicle direction detection system (CNN + RNN) for NARSA, achieving 87% lane detection accuracy. • Built a hybrid course recommendation system for prepadigitale.com (700+ video transcriptions, content-based + collaborative filtering, Flask deployment).
Python Developer
Remote
Apr 2020 - Apr 2021
independent·Contract
• Built Django web apps: stock chart pattern recognition (deep learning, TD Ameritrade API), multi-aspect sentiment analysis (Twitter API, NLTK), and credit card fraud detection (Scikit-learn).
Data Science Intern
Benguerir, Morocco
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
digital for research (d4r), um6p·Part-time
• Designed and deployed a hybrid ML/DL rainfall prediction model with 94%+ accuracy.