AI Engineer · Beirut, Lebanon · Open to conversations

From Data to Intelligent Systems

Building scalable data pipelines, semantic search, and production-ready LLM systems for organizations shaping policy across the Arab region.

Years from data to ML
5+
Production systems shipped
8
Professional certifications
12
Languages — Arabic & English
2
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About

Ask, don’t search.

A policy analyst has a question. The answer exists — scattered across thousands of documents and datasets, in different languages, in a repository nobody can search. Everything I’ve built lives in that gap: the pipelines that hold it all, and the machine learning that pulls the answer back out.

Education B.E. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Beirut Arab University (2015 — 2020). Honours student — CGPA 3.84 / 4.

Competitions First place, LIRA Competition — 3D concrete printing (2017). Our team printed mock-up concrete structures on a printer we built with mechanical engineering students, and formulated the mix that made it possible — high compressive strength without giving up workability, buildability, or setting time.

  • AI that ships

    From multi-agent report generators to RAG advisors running inside government portals — I build LLM systems that reach production, not just demos.

  • Data you can trust

    Pipelines end to end: ingestion, validation, metadata, lineage. I build for the analysts who need the number to be right, and for the models that generate entire analyses on top of it.

  • Impact at scale

    My work powers policymaking tools across the Arab region — the portals economists search, the advisors ministries ask, the simulators policymakers run.

One engineer, end to end

  1. IngestSpark · Airflow · Data Factory
  2. Store & governDelta Lake · Azure Data Lake
  3. Index & retrieveEmbeddings · Azure AI Search
  4. ModelLLMs · Deep learning
  5. ShipRAG apps · Multi-agent systems

Featured Projects

What I've Built

POLARIS

UN ESCWA

Multi-agent LLM report generation

Developed a multi-agent LLM system that produces reports on demand, retrieving and synthesizing content from Manara’s document repository. Separate agents handle research, drafting, and quality control.

  • Multi-agent LLM
  • RAG
  • Python
  • Azure OpenAI

Mustashar

UN ESCWA

ESCWA’s first LLM policy advisor

Built ESCWA’s first LLM-powered policy advisor — a RAG assistant over Manara’s document and ADP’s dataset repository that answers in context, grounded in the source documents. It charts the data behind its answers, speaks through a realtime voice agent, and turns a topic into a generated podcast. Deployed as a standalone web app and integrated into the Manara and Arab Development Portal data catalog.

  • RAG
  • Vector Search
  • Azure AI Search
  • Web App

Deeble

Qatar Ministry of Labour

RAG analytics for Qatar’s Ministry of Labour

Built an LLM-powered RAG chatbot over government employment data, giving Qatar’s Ministry of Labour analytical answers that support evidence-based policymaking.

  • LLM
  • RAG
  • Analytics
  • Gov Data

Arab Development Portal

UN ESCWA

Data pipelines + Search Engine

Designed the architecture and built the pipeline ecosystem behind the data and search for the Manara and Arab Development Portal: pipelines for data ingestion, transformation, and loading, plus pipelines that embed dataset and document metadata and serve an optimized retrieval path through Azure AI Search. Also built LLM pipelines for metadata generation and document classification.

  • Embeddings
  • Azure AI Search
  • ETL
  • Metadata

ISPAR Simulation Engine

UN ESCWA

Optimization models for policymakers

Built the core engine behind the Index Simulator for Policymakers in the Arab Region, running the optimization models that simulate index and indicator values. Also contributed to the Financing for Development and Multidimensional Poverty Index models.

  • Optimization
  • Simulation
  • Python

Country Support

UN ESCWA

Agentic RAG over ESCWA’s technical cooperation archive

Built an pipelines that ingests ESCWA’s bilingual technical cooperation archive, indexes it for hybrid semantic search, and serves a citation-grounded chat assistant plus multi-document thematic summarization — both strictly evidence-bound to the retrieved documents.

  • Azure AI Search
  • Document Intelligence
  • RAG
  • Bilingual

Lions Portal

Lions Clubs International District 351

District membership & dues portal

Built a full-stack Nuxt 3 and Firebase portal for Lions Clubs International’s Lebanon district, replacing spreadsheet-based membership tracking with a live database of the district’s club hierarchy and online dues collection through a hosted payment gateway.

  • Nuxt 3
  • Firebase
  • Vue 3
  • Payments

GDP Forecasting Feasibility

UN ESCWA

Deep learning for macro forecasting

Led the data science team assessing whether a GDP forecasting model could reach 3% accuracy, testing deep neural networks against ensemble machine learning methods.

  • Deep Learning
  • Ensembles
  • Forecasting

Experience

Five years at the United Nations

  1. Mar 2023 — Present

    Machine Learning Assistant

    United Nations ESCWA — ICT Section · Beirut, Lebanon

    • Developed POLARIS, a multi-agent LLM system generating reports from Manara’s document repository.
    • Built Mustashar (ESCWA’s first RAG policy advisor) and Deeble (RAG analytics for Qatar’s Ministry of Labour).
    • Designed the semantic search stack for the Arab Development Portal: embedding pipelines, Azure AI Search ingestion, optimized retrieval.
    • Led the data science team on GDP forecasting feasibility with deep neural networks and ensembles.
    • Built the optimization engine behind ISPAR; contributed to FFD and MPI models. Mentored junior colleagues.
  2. Aug 2021 — Mar 2023

    Data Engineer

    United Nations ESCWA — ICT Section · Beirut, Lebanon

    • Designed and maintained Arab Development Portal pipelines — ingestion, transformation, validation, and storage into Azure Data Lake with Spark, Airflow, Data Factory, Delta Lake, and Parquet.
    • Owned end-to-end ETL: extraction, cleaning, schema alignment, and loading into centralized repositories.
    • Enriched dataset metadata with LLM-assisted workflows and data cataloging for discoverability and lineage.
    • Built Power BI dashboards with the BI team and interactive MIRO dashboards in R for CGE GAMS models.
  3. Nov 2020 — Aug 2021

    Research Assistant

    United Nations ESCWA · Beirut, Lebanon

    • Developed the ESCWA Key Messages portal aggregating the latest ESCWA findings.
    • Analyzed UN General Assembly speeches and their correlation with major historical events.
  4. Mar 2024 — Aug 2024

    Maintenance Team Lead (part-time)

    Terascom · Beirut, Lebanon

    • Led the radiation scanner maintenance team; primary liaison between Lebanese Customs and Terascom, managing service requests, remote coordination, and reporting.

Capabilities

From ingestion to inference

AI & Machine Learning

  • LLMs & Multi-agent systems
  • RAG pipelines
  • Vector search & embeddings
  • Deep learning
  • Optimization models
  • Predictive modeling

Data Engineering

  • ETL / ELT pipelines
  • Apache Spark
  • Apache Airflow
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Delta Lake & Parquet
  • Metadata management
  • Data quality & validation

Cloud & Search

  • Azure AI Search
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Azure Data Lake
  • Azure Databricks
  • Apache Solr
  • Event Hubs & Kafka

Languages & Tools

  • Python
  • SQL
  • R
  • Node.js
  • Vue / Nuxt
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
  • Git & CI/CD
  • Power BI
  • ArcGIS Pro

Certifications

  • Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure2024
  • Develop Generative AI Solutions with Azure OpenAI Service2024
  • Designing & Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure2024
  • Designing & Implementing an Azure AI Solution2024
  • Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals2024
  • Leadership and Management Skills Program2022
  • Research, Analysis Skills and Reporting Program2022
  • Key Applications (Office 2016) — IC3 Digital Literacy2019
  • Living Online (Office 2016) — IC3 Digital Literacy2019
  • Computing Fundamentals (Office 2016) — IC3 Digital Literacy2019
  • Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up — HarvardX2019
  • Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies — HarvardX2019

Contact

Let's build something that ships.

I'm open to AI roles, and to collaborations on LLM products. Phone number is the fastest way to reach me.