Abdelkerim Dassi

AI Engineer: RAG, LLM agents, Spring AI / MCP
Tunis, Tunisia (remote-friendly) abdelkerimdassi@gmail.com +216 55 683 474 abdelkerimdassi.com linkedin.com/in/abdelkerim-dassi github.com/Abdelkerim-Dassi

Profile

AI Engineer building production RAG, LLM agents, and Spring AI / MCP systems. In AI since 2021: four years of internships and freelance alongside an engineering degree, then full-time. Currently leading AI at 1morething Ventures (Sharjah, UAE) across Gulf and MEA clients, including an agriculture AI for FAO in Egypt; teaching AI bootcamps on the side and working with a first US client. Shipped in 8 countries. Working languages: Arabic, French, English.

Experience

AI Engineer
1morething Ventures · Sharjah, UAE · Hybrid
Jan 2026 – Present
  • Lead AI delivery across the 1MT B2B portfolio in the Gulf and MEA: UAE, KSA, Tunisia, plus an agriculture AI for FAO in Egypt.
  • Set the AI direction, push RAG and LLM systems into production, mentor the engineering team on MLOps.
AI Consultant · Freelance
Independent · Remote (US client)
2026 – Present
  • First US client, remote, fully delivered.
Data Science Instructor
RCH International · TeachCode · GOMYCODE · Tunisia
Mar 2025 – Present
  • Teach the AI Full Pack at three academies: Python through Transformers, end to end.
  • Classes in English, French, and Tunisian. Hands-on, project-based.
Data Scientist
Qualipro® by Imagine Human · Tunisia · Hybrid
Oct 2025 – Feb 2026
  • Brought AI into the QHSE platform: live translation, an in-app assistant, and agents for audit automation.
  • Stack: Spring AI, RAG, MCP, Groq. Shipped end to end.
Data Scientist
D2D Analytics · Canada · Remote
Apr 2025 – Sep 2025
  • Classified 100K+ parliamentary speeches into topics; pipeline hit 95%.
  • Built a RAG system so citizens could query what was said in parliament.
AI Engineer · Internship
Wevioo (Tunis) · NTT DATA München (direct) · Hybrid
Feb 2024 – Dec 2024
  • Embedded into the NTT DATA team in Munich. Led RAG research and LLM selection on AWS SageMaker.
  • Built the cloud pipelines: S3, EC2, EKS, Docker, GitLab CI.
Data Scientist · Internship
Silver Brain AI AG · Zurich, Switzerland · Remote
Jun 2023 – Oct 2023
  • Trained a RoBERTa pipeline on 1M+ German legal records: +15% downstream accuracy.
  • Automated processing: 40% faster end to end.

Skills

LLM systems RAG pipelines, LLM agents, Spring AI, MCP (Model Context Protocol), LangChain, LlamaIndex, Groq, prompt & retrieval evaluation NLP / ML Transformers (HuggingFace), RoBERTa fine-tuning, BART summarization, classical ML & forecasting, computer vision (CNNs) Cloud / MLOps AWS (SageMaker, S3, EC2, EKS), Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD Languages & APIs Python, Java, FastAPI, R · Weaviate & vector stores Human languages Arabic (native), French, English, teach in all three

Selected projects

RAG with Spring AI
Spring AI · MCP · Java · open source
DocMate · AI documentation assistant
RAG · Weaviate · SageMaker · EKS · enterprise
Vehicle Pose Recognition API
CNN · FastAPI · Docker · 91% precision
Trip-Planner LLM Agent
CrewAI · agents · Python · open source

Education & certifications

National Engineer Degree · Data Science
ESPRIT School of Engineering · early 2025
Maths & Physics · preparatory cycle
Tunis Preparatory Engineering Institute · 2021
NVIDIA DLI · 4 certifications
Deep Learning · Transformer-Based NLP · Anomaly Detection · CV for Industrial Inspection