The people who run this community
One founder, two directors, six owned axes. 9 volunteers keeping the sessions, courses, roadmaps, and study groups running — all of it free.
Aya Nasser Salama
Senior MLOps & LLMOps Engineer with 6+ years in AI. At Unifonic she is the central MLOps/LLMOps support across AI teams — agentic products with LangGraph and MCP, LLM evaluation and observability, and 30B+ model serving on Kubernetes. She designed and teaches "Production ML Engineering" at ITI, and built Valeo's first production RAG system.
Basem Abusaif
AI Engineer working on 3D perception and generative AI, with 5+ years building deep learning pipelines for autonomous systems. Leads the 3D perception stack at Wakeb Data and previously productionised LiDAR simulation models at Valeo. Completing an MSc in Informatics at Nile University.
Mohamed Samy Mansour
AI Instructor Lead
AI and Data Science engineer with a Computer Engineering background from Mansoura University. Mid-Level Data Scientist at Andalusia Healthcare Group, previously AI & Data Science Engineer at Etisalat Misr, working across ML pipelines, model serving, and LLM/RAG applications.
Adham AbdelAzeem
AI Research Lead
Research Associate at the Institute of Sport and Sport Science, TU Dortmund, working on applied machine learning in Python. Previously a year at MARS GmbH on computer vision for product imagery and ML for manufacturing process improvement. Started in Biomedical Engineering in Egypt before a Master's in Germany.
Radwa Khattab
AI Community Growth & Partnerships Lead
Senior AI Engineer with 6+ years of experience, including two years at Microsoft as an Applied & Data Scientist, building production AI/ML systems across LLMs, agentic AI, and cloud infrastructure. Pursuing a Master's in AI at Cairo University, and has taught AI/ML at two universities and Udacity.
Want to join the core team?
We are always looking for practitioners to run sessions, review code, mentor students, and help keep this free for everyone.
Learning MLOps alone is unnecessarily hard
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