Profile

Recent Computer Science graduate from the University of Technology in Baghdad with two years of part-time engineering work and a senior project presented at a regional NLP workshop. Current focus is on applied machine learning for low-resource Arabic with strong full-stack engineering as a foundation.

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science
2020 — 2024
University of Technology, Baghdad · GPA 3.85 / 4.0 (Top 5%)
  • Senior project: An Arabic question-answering system using fine-tuned multilingual models
  • Presented at the 2024 NLP-for-Arabic Workshop · Honorable Mention

Experience

Software Engineer
Aug 2024 — Present
Cypher Networks · Baghdad
  • Built and shipped two production microservices in TypeScript/Node serving 8,000 daily API calls
  • Reduced p99 latency on the customer-search endpoint by 42% via index tuning and query rewrites
  • Co-led the migration of the internal admin tool from REST to a typed RPC layer
Software Engineering Intern
Jun 2023 — Aug 2023
Karam Labs · Remote
  • Contributed prompt-engineering tooling to an internal Arabic LLM evaluation harness
  • Authored three benchmark scripts that were merged into the team's production pipeline

Projects

iraqi-ner-pipeline
Open source · 150 stars
Python · PyTorch · Hugging Face
  • Named-entity recognition for Iraqi dialect with three downstream baselines and a documented evaluation harness
arabic-q-eval
2024
Class project, since extended
  • Benchmark suite for Arabic question-answering models across four model families; cited by the 2024 NLP-for-Arabic Workshop proceedings

Achievements

  • Dean's List — University of Technology Baghdad · 2022, 2023, 2024
  • 2nd Place — Iraqi National Software Engineering Competition · 2023
  • Top 1% — Iraqi Baccalaureate · 2020