The person behind the work

About

AI Engineer from Tunis. 4 years in production — RAG, agents, LLM systems. Leading AI at 1morething Ventures in Sharjah. Shipped in 8 countries. Teach in 3 languages.

Abdelkerim Dassi
4+
Years in prod AI
AR·FR·EN
Languages spoken
8
Countries shipped in
3
Languages I teach in
Identity

At a glance

Now
AI Engineer @ 1MT
Leading AI delivery across the 1MT B2B portfolio — Gulf and MEA. I set the direction, push RAG and LLM systems into production, and mentor the team on MLOps. Based in Tunis, working remote.
Education
Esprit Engineering
National Engineer Degree · Data Science · 2025
Certified
4× NVIDIA DLI
Deep Learning · NLP · Computer Vision · Anomaly Detection
Sport
Club Africain · Real Madrid
Tactics nerd. Also watches NBA — short but loves basketball.
Music
Mood-driven
Arabic pop · Algerian raï · whatever fits the task
Principles

How I work

01
Ship first
The real feedback loop starts when a real user touches it — not in a doc.
02
Build for users
A demo that works 95% doesn't ship. Edge cases aren't edge cases in production.
03
Teach to sharpen
Running bootcamps in 3 languages forces clarity on what I actually know.
04
Stay curious
Spring AI, MCP, Arabic NLP — I chased them early. They keep becoming the work.

"Ship first, learn in production. The feedback loop only starts when something real is in someone's hands."

Abdelkerim Dassi · AI Engineer, 1morething Ventures
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Contact
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