Bassel ALSHEEK-KASSEM

PERSONAL SITE · MLOPS ENGINEER

GERMANY

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Bassel
Alsheek-Kassem.

MLOps Engineer · AI & Data Leader

Turning machine learning and data into dependable, real-world products.

CAREER / 01

Experience

AI DELIVERY · MLOPS · SOFTWARE

OCT 2024 — PRESENT

EY · FULL-TIME · MUNICH

Manager

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Role details CLICK TO EXPAND
  • Manage end-to-end delivery of AI and data analytics projects.
  • Partner with clients and stakeholders to translate business challenges into actionable requirements.
  • Lead multidisciplinary teams of data scientists, data engineers, and analysts.
  • Oversee model design, data pipelines, and analytics frameworks, with a focus on data quality and security.
  • Contribute to proposals, client pitches, and capability development.
Digital Strategy Digital Transformation Generative AI MLOps GCP
OCT 2022 — OCT 2024

EY · FULL-TIME · MUNICH

Senior Consultant, Machine Learning Engineer

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Role details CLICK TO EXPAND
  • Deployed ML models into production using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Automated model training, testing, deployment, monitoring, scaling, and rollback.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines across the machine learning lifecycle.
  • Applied security best practices to safeguard models and data.
  • Optimized models for size, latency, and resource utilization, and built real-time performance monitoring.
Docker Jenkins Kubernetes Terraform MLflow Kubeflow CI/CD
JUL 2021 — OCT 2022

AGILE ROBOTS AG · FULL-TIME · MUNICH

Deep Learning Engineer

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Role details CLICK TO EXPAND
  • Developed computer vision deep learning algorithms and models.
  • Analyzed large-scale data and performed statistical analysis to improve model accuracy.
  • Prepared and cleaned data, and verified its quality.
  • Supported MLOps practices including CI/CD, Docker, DVC, visualization, and monitoring.
  • Reviewed code to help ensure software quality.
Deep Learning Computer Vision Docker DVC Data Visualization
MAR 2018 — JUL 2021

CHECK24 VERGLEICHSPORTAL GMBH · FULL-TIME · MUNICH

Software Developer

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Role details CLICK TO EXPAND
  • Built insurance applications as part of an Agile team.
  • Implemented scalable, flexible microservice architectures.
  • Used DevOps practices to streamline team collaboration and delivery.
  • Maintained the codebase with automated unit tests and peer reviews.
Node.js React.js Microservices DevOps
OCT 2015 — MAR 2018

FTWK GMBH & CO. KG · FULL-TIME · BERLIN

Web Developer

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Role details CLICK TO EXPAND
  • Developed user-friendly websites for clients across different domains.
  • Worked with UX and UI designers to analyze requirements and deliver client solutions.
  • Built front-end and back-end applications with Node.js and React.js.
Node.js React.js User Experience Requirements Analysis
APR 2016 — DEC 2016

STADTKUECHE GMBH · FREELANCE · BERLIN

IT Consultant

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Role details CLICK TO EXPAND
  • Clarified client needs through meetings and requirements discussions.
  • Identified software and hardware requirements and agreed on a web application solution.
Requirements Analysis WordPress
NOV 2012 — MAR 2015

HIAST · FULL-TIME · DAMASCUS

Information Systems Engineer & Assistant Teacher

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Role details CLICK TO EXPAND
  • Taught advanced programming languages, algorithms and data structures, and computer graphics.
  • Supervised three student projects and contributed to NLP research projects.
  • Implemented joint projects with partner agencies.
Software Design Java NLP Algorithms
JAN 2013 — NOV 2014

HIAST · PART-TIME · DAMASCUS

Competitive Programming Coach

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Role details CLICK TO EXPAND
  • Organized training in algorithmic techniques and strategies.
  • Coached students in coding, problem solving, and teamwork, and prepared contest problems.
Problem Solving Algorithms Coaching

CAPABILITIES / 02

Skills & toolkit

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MCP Agentic AI RAG Multimodale Prompt Engineering LLamaindex Langchain Copilot KUBERNETES DOCKER MLFLOW KUBEFLOW DVC TERRAFORM JENKINS GCP vLLM PYTHON PYTORCH TENSORFLOW COMPUTER VISION GENERATIVE AI REINFORCEMENT LEARNING NLP NODE.JS REACT MICROSERVICES JAVA GIT MACHINE LEARNING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING LLMS DATA PIPELINES DATA VISUALIZATION SQL

SELECTED WORK / 03

Projects

PERSONAL & ACADEMIC PROJECTS

ML · PARTICLE PHYSICS · 2020

Addressing Hadron Collider Challenges with ML

Applied machine learning to Z boson detection, particle identification, dark matter searches, and Bayesian optimization of LHC detectors.

NLP · CHATBOT · 2020

StackOverflow Chatbot Assistant

Built intent recognition and question classification to find relevant Stack Overflow answers for user questions.

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING · 2020

Solving Easy21 with Reinforcement Learning

Implemented an Easy21 simulation and RL agents, then visualized and compared their performance.

ML · CLOUD DEPLOYMENT · 2019

Predicting Income Potential

Explored demographic data, engineered features, trained and tuned models, and deployed predictions through a web application.

FORECASTING · 2019

Predicting Future Sales

Prepared data and trained machine learning models to forecast monthly product and store sales.

DATA SCIENCE · MUNICH · 2019

Analyzing the Housing Situation in Munich

Combined housing and neighborhood data with unsupervised learning to explore rental prices and local infrastructure.

WEB APPLICATION · SYRIA · 2013—2014

ADSL Port Management Platform

Designed an Oracle database, requirements, and application architecture for managing ISP ADSL port distribution.

NLP · ARABIC · 2012—2013

Building a General Ontology for Arabic

Designed an Arabic language ontology using a lexical resource and linguistic patterns to identify semantic relationships.

SEARCH · PLANNING · 2012

Planning in the Game World

Built a cube-game simulation and generated plans with informed search algorithms such as A*.

ESTIMATION · VISUALIZATION · 2011—2012

Air Pollution Estimator

Estimated pollutant concentrations from environmental attributes and visualized their distribution using GIS tools.

COMPILERS · 2010

Mini-Pascal Compiler

Implemented lexical parsing, syntax analysis, type checking, and bytecode generation for Mini-Pascal.

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Education

2007 — 2012 · DAMASCUS

Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology

Five-year Diploma of Engineering, Information Systems Engineering.

Coursework included mathematics, computer science, software engineering, algorithms, AI, NLP, parallel and distributed computing.

2012 · CERTIFICATE

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

Building and Maintaining Data Center, Information Technology.

Virtualization, virtual machines, and database management and maintenance.

CONTINUOUS LEARNING / 05

Certifications

  • Machine Learning Engineering for Production (MLOps) SpecializationDeepLearning.AI · 2024
  • Generative AI with Large Language ModelsDeepLearning.AI · 2023
  • Natural Language ProcessingDeepLearning.AI · 2021
  • TensorFlow: Data and DeploymentDeepLearning.AI · 2021
  • TensorFlow 2 for Deep LearningCoursera · 2021
  • Advanced Machine LearningCoursera · 2020
  • Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google CloudGoogle Cloud · 2020
  • Image Data Augmentation with KerasCoursera · 2020
  • Advanced Data Science with IBMIBM · 2019
  • IBM Data Science Professional CertificateIBM · 2019
  • Machine LearningCoursera · 2019
  • Software Design and ArchitectureCoursera · 2019
  • Deep LearningDeepLearning.AI · 2019
  • TensorFlow in PracticeDeepLearning.AI · 2019
  • Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and SkillsCoursera · 2020
  • Learning How to LearnCoursera · 2020