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AI Software Engineer · Egypt

Mahmoud Hesham Elkholany

AI software engineer building AI applications and backend systems, from architecture to deployment. Led an 11-person engineering team at HUNA and built a clinical AI assistant with physician review, alongside multilingual retrieval systems. Previously evaluated AI-generated code at Outlier AI, analyzed telecom data at Orange Egypt, and taught data science and BI to 50+ students.

My work at HUNA ran from May to October 2026. I’m studying Data Science at Horus University, with graduation expected in 2028.

Experience and responsibilities ↗

Open to AI roles, internships, and freelance work.

Selected work

What I built, the decisions I made, and what each project delivered.

Experience

My roles in software engineering, data analysis, and technical education.

May 2026 – Oct 2026

AI Software Engineer

HUNA

  • Coordinated an 11-person team across backend, frontend and DevOps, assigning tasks based on technical ability and availability.
  • Helped reduce project delivery time by approximately 60% against the original estimate by breaking work into smaller tasks and assigning them based on ability and availability.
  • Owned technical architecture and reviewed 60+ pull requests for implementation quality and consistency; led technical training for interns.

Microsoft Learn Student Club, Horus University

Data Science Lead → Technical Head

  1. Aug 2026 – PresentCurrentPromoted

    Technical Head

    • Promoted from Data Science Lead. Manage the club’s GitHub organization across Data Science, AI, Cybersecurity, and Embedded Systems for 200+ members.
    • Support track heads in delivering practical exercises and projects alongside sessions.
  2. Sep 2025 – Aug 2026

    Data Science Lead

    • Built the BI curriculum and taught 50+ students Python data processing, multi-table SQL, regression, clustering, and Power BI using business scenarios.
Jul 2026 – PresentCurrent

Microsoft Student Ambassador

Microsoft

  • Reached 400+ students across six campus sessions introducing Microsoft developer and AI tools.
Jun 2024 – Oct 2024

AI Code Reviewer / Data Analyst

Outlier AI · Remote

  • Reviewed AI-generated Python across ML and NLP tasks, evaluated reasoning and output quality, and documented factual accuracy and safety issues.
Jul 2023 – Jan 2024

Data Analyst, Telecom

Orange Egypt · Damietta

  • Cleaned and restructured telecom operational data in Excel and SQL, wrote analysis queries, and contributed to internal documentation.

Background and skills

About 7 years of programming, from Python and web development to applied AI.

01

2019–2021

Foundations

Self-taught HTML/CSS and Python, then object-oriented programming through Pygame, backend fundamentals, automation, and early IoT experiments.

02

2022–2023

Systems and devices

Flutter applications, hardware integration alongside teammates, Linux, and deployment workflows.

03

2024–present

Applied AI and engineering leadership

AI applications with real backend integrations, structured model output, retrieval, and technical leadership. Data science and digital twins connect the modeling work to complete systems.

Education
B.Sc. Data Science

Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Horus University of Egypt

2024 — 2028 · Expected graduation

Applied AI

PythonPyTorchscikit-learnGemini APIAnthropic APIRAGStructured output

Backend and delivery

TypeScriptFastAPIReactSQLDockerGitLinux

Data and connected systems

PandasPower BIInfluxDBGrafanaMQTTFlutterKotlin

Certificates and recognition

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Have a role or project in mind?

Open to internships, junior AI engineering roles, and freelance projects. Available for remote work and on-site opportunities in Cairo or Damietta.