The people who run this community
One founder, two directors, six owned axes. 9 practitioners keeping the sessions, courses, roadmaps, and study groups running — all of it free for the community.
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.
Omar Salah
Co-runs the community day to day — sessions, study groups, and keeping the programme moving.
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.
Zakaria Ahmed
AI Content Lead
Owns the community's written content — roadmaps, articles, and the material that goes out with every session.
Khadija Ahaidous
AI Research Lead
Leads the community's research direction — the papers we read, the work we publish, and the academic mentoring that goes with them.
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.
Mariam Qotob
AI Sessions & Mentorship Lead
AI/ML engineer with a professional master's in AI from Queen's University, working across the full machine learning pipeline with applied experience in LLMs and RAG. Currently a Teaching Assistant for the Digilians Initiative.
Mahmoud Abu Al-Nour
AI Platform & Social Media Lead
Computer Science student focused on AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. Builds practical AI solutions with Python, SQL, FastAPI, Docker, and MLOps tooling, turning ideas into real projects.
Want to join the core team?
We are always looking for practitioners to run sessions, review code, mentor students, and help keep the community side free for everyone.
Learning MLOps alone is unnecessarily hard
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