Work history & projects

Work

I started in AI in 2021, while still in engineering school. Spent four years stacking internships and freelance gigs alongside my degree (Esprit, early 2025), then went full-time. Today I lead AI at 1morething Ventures out of Sharjah, teach a few bootcamp cohorts on the side, and just picked up my first US client.

01 · Reach

Where I've shipped

02 · Roles

Experience

01
AI Engineer
1morething Ventures · Sharjah, UAE · Hybrid
  • Lead AI delivery across the 1MT B2B portfolio in the Gulf and MEA: UAE, KSA, Tunisia, plus an agriculture AI for FAO in Egypt.
  • I set the AI direction, push RAG and LLM systems into production, and mentor the engineering team on MLOps.
Jan 2026
Present● Live
02
AI Consultant · Side freelance
Independent · first US client
  • Just picked up my first US client: remote, fully delivered.
2026
Present● Live
03
Data Science Instructor
RCH International · TeachCode · GOMYCODE · Tunisia · Remote & Hybrid
  • I teach the AI Full Pack at three different academies: Python through Transformers, end to end.
  • Classes run in English, French, and Tunisian depending on the room. Hands-on, not lecture-y.
Mar 2025
Present● Live
04
Data Scientist
Qualipro® by Imagine Human · Tunisia · Hybrid
  • Brought AI into the QHSE platform: live translation, an in-app assistant, and agents for audit automation.
  • Stack was Spring AI, RAG, MCP, Groq. Shipped end to end.
Oct 2025
Feb 2026
05
Data Scientist
D2D Analytics · Canada · Remote
  • Classified 100K+ parliamentary speeches into topics. Pipeline hit 95%.
  • Built a RAG system so citizens could ask questions about what was said in parliament.
Apr 2025
Sep 2025
06
AI Engineer · Internship
Wevioo (Tunis) · NTT DATA München (direct) · Hybrid
  • Embedded straight into the NTT DATA team in Munich. Led the RAG research and chose the LLM on AWS SageMaker.
  • Built the cloud pipelines too: S3, EC2, EKS, Docker, GitLab CI.
Feb 2024
Dec 2024
07
Data Scientist · Internship
Silver Brain AI AG · Zurich, Switzerland · Remote
  • Trained a RoBERTa pipeline on 1M+ German legal records. Got +15% downstream accuracy.
  • Automated the processing side: 40% faster end to end.
Jun 2023
Oct 2023
03 · Selected work

Projects

Arabic RAG for Farmers: Case Study
Dialect-aware RAG · hybrid search · expert feedback loop · in production
Deep dive
01
RAG with Spring AI
Spring AI · MCP · Java · RAG
Public repo
02
MCP Server with Spring AI
Model Context Protocol · Spring · Java
Public repo
03
Vehicle Pose Recognition API
CNN · FastAPI · Docker · CI/CD
91% precision
04
Trip-Planner LLM Agent
CrewAI · Agents · Python
Open source
05
Text Summarizer: BART
HuggingFace · Transformers · Python
Public repo
06
DocMate: AI Documentation Assistant
RAG · Weaviate · SageMaker · EKS · Docker
Enterprise
04 · Live from GitHub

Activity

@Abdelkerim-Dassi Synced live
Pulled fresh from GitHub on every visit. View profile
05 · From people I've worked with

Reviews

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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. He was proactive in solving challenges and took the time to deepen his understanding when needed.

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Wassim Boubaker
Technical Project Manager & Lead Consultant · NTT DATA DACH
Co-advisor
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Your clear and practical way of teaching complex topics (from Python fundamentals to machine learning, deep learning, Generative AI, and Transformers) made the entire learning journey truly enriching. Your passion, patience, and continuous support greatly strengthened my understanding.

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Yasmin Nabli
Embedded Systems & Full Stack JS Engineer
Student
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Your real-world examples and clear guidance revealed the incredible potential of AI. We truly appreciate your patience as you led us through hands-on projects, deep-learning fundamentals, and encouraged us to explore beyond the basics. You've inspired us to apply these skills in real-world projects.

SR
Sabri Rakrouki
Full-Stack Software Engineer · Microservices
Student
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J'ai particulièrement apprécié sa grande motivation et sa capacité à apprendre rapidement. Il est une personne autonome et sérieuse. Je suis convaincue qu'il réussira dans sa future carrière.

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Nivine Attoué
Data Scientist · R&D Engineer · PhD
Mentor