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ABDELKERIM DASSI
AI engineer. I build AI that actually goes live: RAG, agents, and edge computer vision. AI Team Lead at 1morething Studio, and I build agent-evaluation tasks for Anthropic's frontier models. Based in Tunis, ready to relocate.
15K+
Farmer questions answered in production
11
Edge vision checks live in Riyadh
17×
Faster on-device inference
45×
Faster Arabic OCR, same output
A few recent things
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From the bench
Absar: Edge Vision for a Coffee Chain
11 on-device hygiene and service checks · NVIDIA Jetson · live in Riyadh
Case study
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02
SheGrows: Arabic RAG for FAO Egypt
WhatsApp assistant for women farmers · dialect-aware retrieval · 15K+ questions
Case study
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03
Agent Evaluation for Frontier Models
~40 RL tasks for Anthropic's Claude Sonnet and Opus · 80% accepted
Freelance
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04
LegalTech: Arabic Legal Archives
On-premise OCR and grounded retrieval for a ministry · proof of concept
45× faster OCR
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Qirat: Built Alone
Rule engine + LLM briefing and streaming chat · backtested on 35K+ coin-days · live
Personal project
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Latest writing
From the field
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What a $250 Box Can Actually Do: Jetson Orin Nano
A full DeepStream + TensorRT vision pipeline on a palm-sized box, and the traps that cost me a week. From a real edge deployment.
3 min read
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Arabic Broke My RAG. Here's What Saved It.
Six small fixes that turned a broken Arabic-dialect chatbot into something usable. From a real production deployment.
5 min read
"Abdelkerim has a good and solid understanding of RAG systems and deploying LLMs on AWS, and approached his work with curiosity and a structured mindset."
This site was built with AI coding agents I direct. I write the spec, the agents write the code, and I review every diff before it ships. It's the same discipline I bring to production AI.