Experience & Education

Professional Experience

Head of AI & Data Engineering

Majesteye • Oct 2022 - Present

Leading a 6-engineer cross-functional team (ML, data engineering, BI) across 3-5 concurrent client engagements for financial institutions, government agencies, and insurance carriers. Built distributed Spark/Scala/SQL pipelines that automated ~80% of manual data processing for a systemic bank, deployed an LLM-powered business copilot and an internal LLM served with vLLM, and implemented data governance frameworks for regulated banking and insurance clients.

Teaching Assistant

University of Jendouba • 2025 - 2026

Teaching OOP and Java Programming, and Data Analytics with Python.

Visiting PhD Student

Clermont Ferrand - LIMOS • Dec 2024 - March 2025

Implemented transformer-based models for protein understanding tasks.

Visiting Msc Student

Clermont Ferrand - LIMOS • Jun 2022 - Jul 2025

Implemented and benchmarks new graph neural networks models on various open benchmarks.

Fullstack Developer (Intern)

Majesteye • Jan 2020 - Jun 2020

Built structured data indexing systems for large-scale datasets and benchmarked open-source search engines to inform indexing architecture decisions.

Education

PhD in Computer Science

University of Manouba - National School of Computer Science • 2023-Present

Focus: NLP x Bioinformatics - protein language models, knowledge graphs, and discrete representation learning. Thesis: Translating the Language of Life.

MSc in Computer Science

University of Jendouba - Faculty of Legal, Economic and Management Sciences of Jendouba • 2020-2022

Data, Knowledge and Distributed Systems. Thesis: Graph Representation Learning via Dense Connections.