Experience

Consulting, delivery, research, and education.

I have worked across consulting, product delivery, research, and education. The common thread is practical AI: systems that need to work outside the slide deck.

Snapshot

  • AI Engineering Lead working across consulting, delivery, and AI system design
  • Lecturer at AUB, teaching advanced AI with a strong focus on practical engineering judgment
  • Expert Contributor at O’Reilly and Packt, designing and delivering advanced AI programs
  • 10+ AI technical due diligence projects across startups and institutional contexts
  • Previously co-founded and led AI at Assentify, scaling an eKYC system to about 20,000 daily requests across 10 countries

Current roles

AI Engineering Lead, EDT&Partners

Leading applied AI and generative AI work in collaboration with AWS, mostly around architecture, system design, and technical direction for client engagements.

Lecturer, American University of Beirut

Teaching AI and AI Engineering with an emphasis on how systems behave in practice, not only how models score in isolation. Also involved in AI for Medicine through SHARP.

Expert Contributor, O’Reilly and Packt

Designing and delivering advanced programs on AI Engineering, MLOps/LLMOps, AI system evaluation, and agent evaluation. I also review AI and ML publications for technical accuracy and practical relevance.

Independent Technical AI Consultant

Working with teams that need clear technical judgment before committing to architecture, tools, or AI direction. The work is mostly scoping, due diligence, and system-level decisions.

Previous work

Co-Founder and AI Lead, Assentify

Co-founded the company and led AI for an eKYC platform covering document intelligence, facial verification, and system reliability. The system scaled to about 20,000 daily requests across 10 countries.

Adjunct Professor, Saint Joseph University

Taught advanced AI topics for Master’s students with a focus on applied depth and industry relevance.

R&D AI Engineer, MYWAI

Worked on edge AI and predictive maintenance systems for industrial environments, including deployments for Mitsubishi Italy.

Education

PhD in Edge Artificial Intelligence, University of Genoa
Master’s in Software Engineering, Saint Joseph University