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- Built ingestion and embedding pipelines over unstructured sources (web, PDFs, scanned documents, audio via OCR/ASR), processing 1T+ Arabic and 10T+ English tokens for Jais, a multilingual LLM developed with G42.
- Designed and deployed retrieval-augmented generation applications, chunking and embedding documents into vector search (Milvus) for grounded responses, serving government clients via LangChain.
- Built a news-intelligence tool that scrapes multi-source articles and uses the ChatGPT API to generate structured geopolitical and economic impact reports with auto-generated charts by country.
- Sep 2022 – Dec 2022
AI Engineer · Digital Arena Solutions
Amman, Jordan- Built and deployed predictive models supporting banking processes for a banking client, including risk scoring, forecasting, and churn.
- Productionized and monitored forecasting models on Azure ML Studio, delivering repeatable, deployment-ready pipelines.
- May 2022 – Aug 2022
NLP and Data Scientist (Internship) · Qistas for Information Technology
Amman, Jordan- Applied transformer-based NLP (BERT) with windowing to process and classify long, unstructured legal documents; built information-extraction and clustering components over large text corpora.
- Cleaned and structured large text corpora to support search and analysis.
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.
Languages
- Python
- SQL
- Linux Shell
Generative AI
- RAG
- Embeddings
- Semantic & Vector Search
- Agent Workflows
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- Prompt Engineering
- Grounding & Evaluation
Production AI & MLOps
- Model Packaging & Deployment
- APIs & Batch Jobs
- Monitoring & Alerting
- ML/LLM Pipelines
- Model Versioning
- Reproducibility
- Controlled Releases
Cloud & Delivery
- Azure ML
- Azure OpenAI
- AWS SageMaker
- Docker
- FastAPI
- Git
Data & Governance
- Unstructured & Semi-structured Data
- Document Processing
- Data Quality
- Grounded Data Sources
- Regulated / Banking Environments
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.