Islam Kassem

AI / ML Engineer • MSc Candidate • Kaggle Master (Top 1%)

Building production AI systems that move from prototype to measurable business value.

I design and deploy LLM, RAG, Whisper ASR, and multimodal vision systems with a strong focus on inference efficiency, scalable ML platforms, and enterprise-ready delivery.

About

Senior-level execution across applied AI, ML platforms, and product delivery.

I work across the full AI delivery stack: data pipelines, experimentation, model fine-tuning, inference optimization, deployment, and monitoring. My recent work spans enterprise chatbots, speech-to-text systems, 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, vector retrieval, real-time inference workflows, and ML platform practices such as CI/CD, MLflow, and experiment tracking.

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.

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.