Yousef Hamdan
I build AI systems end to end, from raw data to models running in production.
- building AI and data systems
- 3+ yrs
- models, retrieval, and analytics
- ML · NLP · RAG
- certified machine learning engineer
- AWS MLA-C01
- certified AI engineer
- Azure AI-102
Raw data in. Working systems out.
I’m an AI and data scientist with 3+ years building production NLP pipelines, LLM-based applications, and machine learning systems. My work covers the full lifecycle: data engineering, model development, and cloud deployment on Azure and AWS, delivering AI for government and enterprise clients.
The largest of those was Jais, one of the biggest open multilingual language models, where I engineered the scraping and OCR/ASR pipelines that produced its training corpus at trillion-token scale.
I completed an MSc in Computer Science at Lakehead University, and hold a BSc in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence from Princess Sumaya University for Technology. I’m looking for ML Engineer, AI Engineer, Data Scientist, Data Analyst, and Data Engineer roles.
What I've built.
- Jul 2023 – Aug 2025
Data Scientist · Alfaisal for Electronic Content
Amman, Jordan- Contributed to a multilingual frontier LLM (Jais, with G42): built scalable web scraping, OCR/ASR, and preprocessing pipelines on Azure to produce trillions of clean training tokens.
- Engineered end-to-end data infrastructure for large-scale corpus construction: ingestion, deduplication, quality filtering, and format normalization.
- Built economic dashboards and retrieval-based chatbots for the UAE government using Streamlit, Dash, LangChain, and Milvus.
- Sep 2022 – Dec 2022
Digital Arena Solutions
Amman, Jordan- AI Engineer (Part-time)Oct 2022 – Dec 2022
- AI Engineer (Full-time)Sep 2022 – Oct 2022
- Built ML models for income prediction, customer churn, risk scoring, and time-series forecasting.
- Deployed and monitored models with Azure ML Studio.
- May 2022 – Aug 2022
NLP & Data Scientist, Internship · Qistas for Information Technology
Amman, Jordan- Text preprocessing, clustering, and vectorization for search over unstructured corpora.
- Cleaned and normalized large document sets for downstream analysis.
- May 2022 – Jul 2022
Data Engineer, Internship · Servtech International
Amman, Jordan- Cleaned and restructured production databases using Python and SQL.
- Built NLP tooling for text processing and extraction.
- Ran exploratory data analysis in Python to surface data quality issues before downstream modelling.
Selected projects.
Arabic RAG Search over Legal Corpus
Hybrid BM25 + dense retrieval pipeline over 2M Arabic legal documents.
Jais Corpus Pipeline
Distributed scraping + OCR/ASR pipeline feeding the Jais multilingual LLM.
Bilingual Document Layout Vision
Vision model for Arabic/English document layout parsing and reading order.
Tooling.
Data & Analytics
- SQL
- Power BI
- Streamlit
- Dash
- Dashboarding
- ETL / Data Pipelines
Machine Learning
- Classical ML
- Forecasting
- Churn & Risk Scoring
- Classification
- Deep Learning
- Computer Vision
NLP & LLMs
- NLP
- LLMs
- RAG
- LangChain
- Milvus
- OCR / ASR
Languages
- Python
- R
- C++
- C
- SQL
- Linux Shell
Cloud & Tools
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure ML Studio
- AWS
- Git
Credentials.
- AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate (MLA-C01)Amazon Web ServicesJul 2026
- Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)MicrosoftMay 2026
- IBM Data Analyst SpecializationIBMApr 2024
- Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)MicrosoftSep 2022
- Neural Networks and Deep LearningDeepLearning.AIMar 2025
Study.
- Sep 2025 – Aug 2026MSc, Computer ScienceLakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario
- Sep 2019 – Jun 2023BSc, Data Science & Artificial IntelligencePrincess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan
Competitions.
- 2022 Middle East Huawei Developer Competition · Top 3
- WiDS Datathon 2022 · Top 10%
- 24 Hour Challenge · Top 5
Let's talk.
Greater Toronto Area, Ontario. Open to AI Engineer, ML Engineer, Data Scientist, Data Analyst, and Data Engineer roles.