Regional Director MENA
Experienced Machine Learning Engineer, Entrepreneur and manager.
Email: mhd.alz.de@gmail.com
CIB Group - Munich & Abu Dhabi (June 2024 - Present)
Secured contracts (1.2M €) and built strong relationships within the banking and public sectors in the UAE. Localized the flagship OCR solution for the Arabic market.
MEBIS Participation: CIB Group
Antler - Munich (January 2024 - April 2024)
Took part in the prestigious Antler Startup Incubator. Acceptance rate <2.5%
fortiss GmbH - Munich (December 2023 - April 2024)
Worked on RAG based LLMs and knowledge graphs for IT compliance in banks.
Tatweer LLC. - Remote (April 2023 - November 2023)
Developed a ready RAG based system combined with Anthropic's Claude-2 to answer user queries about the Jordanian laws. Used gradio for the prototypical UI.
IAV GmbH - Ingolstadt (January 2023 - November 2023)
Created an MLOps pipeline with Kubeflow, package to simplify deployments on the Kubernetes cluster and heavily optimized a database tool to create test reports.
CIB AI Labs GmbH - Munich
March 2021 - January 2023
Research engineer for optimizing processes in Document Lifecycle Management: Self-learning system for NER built with ZenML. Document classification with transformers, realistic text replacement with GANs, recognition & anonymization of personal data in documents (NER).
fortiss GmbH - Munich
April 2022 - August 2022
Development of a DLT framework to ensure IT compliance in banks with Corda and in Java. The project was in cooperation with Grenke AG.
SAMD Solutions UG - Braunschweig
May 2020 - October 2021
Project management of a team of 5 developers to develop 3D modeling software. Used Libraries: PyQT, Panda3D, Numpy, Matplotlib, Shapely, Plotly.
TU Braunschweig, Institut für Mikrotechnik - Braunschweig
April 2020 - August 2020
Development of software in Python for detecting crack progression in bonded CFRP components using a high-resolution camera system. Libraries: Skimage, PyQt, OpenCV, Numpy.
TU Braunschweig, Institut für Adaptronik und Funktionsintegration - Braunschweig
October 2019 - April 2020
A project with Airbus S.A.S. for detecting pores in 3D printed metal components using neural networks. Training CNNs in Tensorflow and Keras. Development of a CNN for pore detection (approx. 80% mean average test precision).
Schwarzberg GmbH - Braunschweig
August 2016 - March 2020
Digitalization of the procurement process for natural coal. Led until the Schwarzberg brand was sold to an interested customer.
VisCompass UG - Braunschweig
October 2013 - October 2015
The startup VisCompass UG emerged from the joint work with Mr. Mohammad Al Kalel and Fin Jacob.
Technische Universität München, Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence - Munich, Germany (2023)
Thesis Topic: Privacy Policy Analysis: Leveraging Bidirectional Large Language Model Pretraining and Instruction Fine-tuning
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics - Brunswick, Germany (2021)
Thesis Topic: Creation of Synthetic Combined Camera and LiDAR Data for 3D Object Detection (System still in use at Bertrandt)
Damascus University, Human Medicine - Damascus, Syria (2011-2012) (dropped out)
High School for Outstanding Students, Grade: 98% - Daraa, Syria (2011)
German-Arabic interpreter at the DRK
Translator in refugee aid projects for 3 years from 01.2018 - 01.2021. As a volunteer translator for the state of Lower Saxony, I translated between English, Arabic and German for refugee families. I also helped out at blood donation events.