The Data Scientist’s Toolbox

Held several writing and managerial positions in The Insider Student Newspaper, the largest independent student newspaper in the Middle East, in its German University in Cairo branch. As an Editor in Chief: Responsible for over 50 members, and managing the entire operations of the newspaper at the University along with the High Board. Managed two recruitment campaigns, one locally at the university, another online compaign at 5 different universities around Egypt. Overseeing the final publishing process of the most crucial reports about the university.

Editor in Chief

IGCSE

Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering

Master’s Degree, Artificial Intelligence

Taught 2 courses:

* Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval: introducing senior (master-level) students to various applications of NLP and IR, including: Text classification and clustering, Language Models, Word Embeddings and Retrieval Models . Responsible for creating all tutorial, assignment and project content as the course was being offered for the first time.
* Concepts of Programming Languages: introducing second year students to declarative and functional programming paradigms using Prolog and Haskell. Designed a machine learning assignment using Haskell.

Teaching Assistant

- Established the product development process, including requirements gathering, documentation, QA, and release process.
- Built the core backend using Python/Django, including chronic disease treatment, scheduling, and messaging, while setting up the process between engineering/design teams.

Founding Product Manager / Software Engineer

Founded an Artificial Intelligence research group at my university, working in collaboration with Dr. Amr el Mougy. 
Proposed 20 different Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing projects. 
Focused on a Recommender Systems project, in the domain of Competitive Programming.

Researcher & Research Group Coordinator

Worked on the Python (Django framework) backend of a local Social Networking website for job posting. Responsible for bug fixing, revamping the chat engine and adding a new shop section in the website.

Web Development Intern

Built AI tools such as lead scoring and recommender systems to optimize confirmation rates for one of the largest travel agencies in Egypt (Memphis Tours). Also integrated Tableau/PowerBI to enhance executive decision-making.

- Implemented a lead scoring module ranking 1000+ incoming leads per month, improving lead conversion by 30%
- Led a 3-person team in developing ML recommender systems and forecasting modules, boosting revenue by 5%.
- Introduced BI tools (Tableau, PowerBI), accelerating decision-making speed by 25% and improving data-driven insights.

Data Science Lead

Developing a University website using ASP.NET, C# & MSSQL. Was mainly responsible for the surveys section, allowing students to evaluate courses and staff, and show detailed statistics to the site's adminstrators.

Web Developer

- Created a full scheduling system, including a call center module, a booking website, and a booking app, reaching 20K+ appointments booked.
- Utilized Metabase and PostHog analytics to improve decision-making, including SQL-based reports
and funnel analysis, enhancing LTV and reducing CAC by 20%.
- Implemented A/B testing and experimentation, doubling conversion rate for a booking website.

Senior Technical Product Manager

Built a HealthTech operating in Canada offering advanced EHR with chronic disease treatment capabilities, as well as patient-facing app/website. Was the founding engineer/PM, and grew the team to 17 members, launching 7 clinics and treating 12,000 patients.

- Launched four mobile/web products, serving 7 clinics, 12K+ patients and generating ARR of $500,000.
- Established a team of 17 members across product, engineering, design, and analytics, orchestrating the product process from discovery to delivery.
- Developed product strategy and OKRs while coordinating with executive, sales, and tech teams.

Head of Product and Engineering

Managing cross-functional squads for a B2C food delivery mobile app with 10MM+ users. Leading multiple delivery and discovery efforts for the user-facing app, through a subscription program and a marketplace initiative, utilizing advanced behavioral and transactional analytics.

- Led the development of a subscription program that scaled to 100,000 users, collaborating with the commercial team alongside the cross-functional squad of engineers/designers/analysts.
- Drove the launch of a new marketplace feature that connected restaurants directly with consumers, achieving over 1,000 orders in the first week and establishing a new revenue stream.
- Led user research and competitive analysis for redesigning core consumer app modules, to enhance UX and reduce cancellations.
- Prioritized 50+ initiatives through OKRs, focusing on the 3 highest-impact projects to drive growth and retention.

Principal Product Manager

- Created the infrastructure (data collection and preprocessing) for all future data analysis and machine learning models
- Developed a clustering module that groups clients of a travel agency according to similar features or behavior, to use in generating newsletter recommendations
- Built web services for serving travel package recommendations to both mobile and web apps-

Data Scientist

Worked as a teaching assistant in the labs of several Computer Science courses.

Assisted in the following courses:

Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms: Spring 2015
Concepts of Programming Languages [CSEN 403]: Spring 2013.
Databases I [CSEN 501]: Fall 2013
Data Structures and Algorithms [CSEN 301]: Fall 2012.
Introduction to Computer Science [CSEN102]: Fall 2012, Fall 2011.

Junior Teaching Assistant

Led a team of 5 Product Managers to scale a FinTech offering prepaid cards through a seamless onboarding, with an in-house loyalty program and challenges system developed. Developed the product strategy, coached the product team in unlocking new business verticals, and led data initiatives and discovery processes.

- Defined product vision and strategy while leading a team of 5 PMs, reaching a 40% boost in team productivity.
- Introduced new revenue streams through a subscription program, attracting 50,000 users.
- Oversaw a suite of products (consumer app, marketing systems, BI tools) and aligned roadmaps for scalability. 
- Established a strong product development process, using agile practices to increase delivery velocity by 25%.
- Developed continuous discovery practices, creating 4 key customer personas to refine the business scope and ensure product initiatives aligned with user needs.

Head of Product

Researching on sentiment analysis for products from tweets and reviews using Machine Learning techniques.

Software Engineering Intern

- Built and launched a 0-1 parent support app leading a team of 6, embedding analytics across learning, sessions, community, and chat. 
- Owned the analytics product end-to-end, building the company's analytics infrastructure from scratch and defining KPI frameworks, data models, and real-time dashboards in PostHog and Metabase used by clinical leadership to track learner progress and intervention outcomes across 400 families.
- Drove 90% reduction in self-harm through a diary card feature, leveraging behavioural analytics to surface friction points and shape design and engineering decisions.
- Developed an AI agent for personalised parent support, ensuring safe responses through a LangFuse evals framework spanning 15 metrics, with crisis safety as highest priority.
- Embedded Speek within NHS care pathways through partnerships with 2 NHS trusts (NELFT, ELFT), designing clinician-referral workflows.
- Operated as the bridge between medical leadership, engineering, and an external agenc

Founding Product Manager

Product builder with 9 years experience in software across healthtech, marketplaces, and fintech.

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