Islam Kassem

AI Engineer · Machine Learning Engineer · Generative AI Specialist · Kaggle Master (Top 1%) · MSc in Data Science

Building production AI systems that deliver measurable business value.

I design and deploy generative AI systems, LLM pipelines, RAG search, Whisper ASR, and multimodal vision — with a strong focus on inference efficiency, scalable MLOps, and production-ready delivery on AWS and Kubernetes.

About

AI Engineer and Machine Learning Engineer with senior-level execution across LLM systems, generative AI, and MLOps delivery.

I work across the full AI delivery stack: data pipelines, experimentation, model fine-tuning, inference optimization, deployment, and monitoring. My recent work spans generative AI systems, enterprise chatbots, speech-to-text pipelines, semantic search, video intelligence, and production recommendation engines.

The focus is consistent: ship systems that are reliable, cost-aware, and tied to business outcomes rather than demos. That includes LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning of open-weight LLMs, RAG pipelines with FAISS and Pinecone, real-time inference, and ML platform practices including CI/CD, MLflow, and experiment tracking.

Deep learning work is built on PyTorch — from transformer architectures to distributed training across multi-GPU setups. Applied to fine-tuning LLaMA and Mistral models, building vision encoders, and optimizing models for production inference with quantization and dynamic batching.

On the infrastructure side: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP Vertex AI for ML workload orchestration, with automated monitoring and retraining pipelines. Machine learning system design — from data versioning through model registry to serving — is as much the job as the models themselves.

Skills

Core capabilities across model development, systems, and cloud delivery.

AI / ML

LLMs RAG Whisper ASR Computer Vision Transformers LoRA / QLoRA Prompt Engineering Semantic Search Vector Indexing Feature Engineering Fine-Tuning Model Evaluation Multimodal AI Recommendation Systems NLP Deep Learning

Backend / Systems

Python R SQL NoSQL MongoDB Cassandra REST APIs gRPC ETL Pipelines Kafka Docker Kubernetes Bash Web Scraping Data Wrangling Model Serving Inference Optimization

Tools / Cloud

AWS Azure GCP Vertex AI MLflow Weights & Biases GitHub Actions FAISS Pinecone Weaviate Hugging Face LangChain PyTorch TensorFlow scikit-learn XGBoost A/B Testing Model Monitoring Experiment Tracking

Projects

Selected work across enterprise AI, hiring automation, and recommendation systems.

Enterprise ASR & AI Assistants

Built enterprise-grade speech-to-text, LLM applications, and chatbot systems for large-scale client delivery.

Impact: moved AI initiatives from exploration into production-focused delivery pipelines.

Whisper ASR LLMs MLOps Deployment

AI Meeting Assistant

Engineered meeting agents that transcribe conversations, generate summaries, and automate follow-up workflows using a Whisper + LLM pipeline.

Impact: reduced manual documentation work and accelerated meeting turnaround.

Whisper LLM Agents Summarization Automation

Resume Matching with RAG

Implemented semantic resume-to-role matching with retrieval-augmented search to improve candidate ranking quality in recruitment workflows.

Impact: increased candidate-job fit accuracy for hiring teams.

RAG Embeddings Semantic Search Recruitment Tech

Fashion Search & Recommendations

Developed search, recommendation, auto-tagging, and image retrieval systems for fashion e-commerce using CV and embedding-based retrieval.

Impact: improved engagement and streamlined catalog operations.

Computer Vision Recommendations CNNs Retrieval

OpenFPL Scout AI

AI-powered FPL Scout using historical and live data with ML models to predict player performance and optimize team selection.

Impact: enables data-driven FPL decisions with real-time predictive insights.

Machine Learning Time Series Predictive Analytics Live Data Sports Intelligence

Open-Source LangChain MCP Work

Contributed to the LangChain MCP adapter ecosystem and published reproducible Kaggle notebooks focused on practical, educational ML workflows.

Impact: extended open-source tooling and community learning resources.

LangChain MCP Open Source Kaggle

Services

Productized AI and ML services available on Upwork.

AI / ML Consultation

One-on-one technical consultation to scope AI opportunities, architecture decisions, and practical implementation plans.

Consultation Solution Design Roadmapping

Machine Learning & Deep Learning Projects

Implementation and delivery of production-ready ML/DL systems from data preparation through modeling and deployment.

Machine Learning Deep Learning Deployment

Custom LLM Agents for Business

Design and development of custom LLM-powered agents tailored to automate workflows and support domain-specific tasks.

LLMs AI Agents Automation

Advanced Computer Vision

End-to-end computer vision solutions including detection, segmentation, and video analysis pipelines.

Detection Segmentation Video Analytics

Credentials

Education, recognitions, and platforms.

M.Sc. in Data Science

Cairo University · Jan 2024 to Present

B.Sc. in Electrical and Communication Engineering

Port-Said University · Sept 2016 to Jul 2021

Highlights

Top 1% Kaggle Code Master, 2 silver medals, 2 bronze medals, Upwork Top-Rated freelancer, 100% Job Success Score.

Blog

Latest articles.

Understanding Large Language Models: A Beginner's Guide

A ground-up explanation of how Large Language Models work, covering transformer architecture, pretraining, fine-tuning, and the intuition behind coherent text generation.

February 2026 · Large Language Models · Generative AI

LLMs Generative AI Deep Learning

OpenFPL-Scout-AI: Data-Driven Fantasy Premier League Success

Discover how machine learning models, time-series analysis, and live football data APIs can be combined to automate FPL decision-making and improve player performance predictions.

August 2025 · Machine Learning · Predictive Analytics

Machine Learning Time Series Python

Contact

Available for AI engineering roles, consulting, and production ML work.

If you need LLM systems, semantic retrieval, speech pipelines, or ML platform work shipped with production discipline, reach out directly.