AI/ML Engineer · Cairo, Egypt

Ahmed
Zahran

For ten years I’ve worked on one problem in three costumes: pulling structure out of signal that doesn’t have any. Phonemes out of audio, facts out of documents, answers out of an enterprise’s own tangled data.

Right now that means production LLM systems at an early-stage startup — multi-agent orchestration, retrieval that survives real customer data, and knowledge graphs holding it together.

Ahmed Zahran

The through-line

Same problem, three eras of tooling

  1. 2016 – 2019

    Speech

    Getting phonemes, dialects, and emotion out of raw audio.

    • Hafss
    • Senteech
    • Arabic ASR & dialect ID
  2. 2020 – 2025

    Text and knowledge graphs

    Getting entities, facts, and answers out of documents.

    • Graph RAG
    • FactAlign
    • Entity-centric summarization
  3. 2025 – now

    Agentic systems

    Getting work done across an enterprise’s own messy data.

    • Multi-agent orchestration
    • Hybrid retrieval
    • Governed integrations

Selected work

Where I’ve done it

Dec 2025 — Present

Founding AI Engineer, Stealth Startup

Built and deployed LLM systems for 14+ isolated enterprise customers.

  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • Claude Agent SDK
  • RAG
  • Composio

Nov 2020 — Dec 2025

Senior Data Scientist (NLP), Implicit(formerly Agolo)

Built Graph RAG and question-answering functionality for Implicit’s Answers product.

  • Knowledge Graphs
  • Neo4j
  • Graph RAG
  • PyTorch
  • HuggingFace

Apr 2018 — Aug 2018

Google Summer of Code Student, Distributed Red Hen Lab

Implemented an Arabic speech recognition system for broadcast speech using Kaldi and VariKN.

  • Kaldi
  • VariKN
  • Scikit-learn
  • Keras
Full work history →

Research

Published work

Research and education →

Toolkit

What I reach for

Programming
  • Python
  • Java
  • SQL
  • Bash
ML / NLP
  • PyTorch
  • HuggingFace
  • Scikit-learn
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • Claude Agent SDK
  • RAG
  • Knowledge Graphs (Neo4j)
Web and Cloud
  • FastAPI
  • Litestar
  • Flask
  • Google Cloud (App Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Tasks)
  • Firebase/Firestore
Languages
  • Arabic (native)
  • English (proficient)

Writing

Recent posts

Arabic ASR and DI (Red Hen Lab - GSoC 2018)

In this post, we will summarize the work done on Arabic speech recognition and Arabic dialect identification projects for RedHenLab as part of GSoC 2018. Each of…

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