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Loay Amin

AI Solution Architect | Senior Manager

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

AI Solution Architect | Senior Manager

PwC
04.2023 - Current
  • AI practice lead utilizing GenAI capabilities to empower humans build faster, better and more efficient solutions across cutting edge industries. Responsible for technical team coordination and product roadmap creation. Utilizing GCP AI Infrastructure (Vertex AI) for product delivery. Responsible for solution architecture from ideation to realization and production. Responsible for client facing consultation, demo presentation and follow ups.
  • Technically Leading a squad of 25 engineers from AI, Full-stack, Devops, Testing expertise for GenAI Product deliveries serving UK and Gulf end PwC customers.
  • Guided and influenced partners on recommended upgrades and enhancements to integrated AI solutions.
  • Worked with customers or prospective customers to develop integrated solutions and lead detailed architectural dialogues to facilitate delivery of comprehensive solution.

AI & Cloud Content Learning Architect

Udacity
03.2022 - 03.2023
  • Built Marvin; Udacity’s first GenAI bot for helping students with a personalized learning experience.
  • Responsible for building automation tools for student and mentor operations using AWS, Google Sheets, docker, cloudformation, terrraform. Acting as cloud architect for a automated filtration and assessment process for mentor performance and student project submissions. Tool has successfully reduced cost of mentor and student operations by 8% across global operations.
  • Responsible for content creation/tailoring and servicing for DECI program; One of the biggest programs for the company aiming to enhance Egypt's technical foundation. By building technological tracks such as Data Science, Web development, Cybersecurity, Embedded Systems and Digital Arts. It's the only and biggest initiative of it's kind in the world. Currently working on expansion in GCC.

AI Lead

Rosalyn.ai
04.2021 - 09.2022

Took part in the early team building process and in building a cloud-based proctoring system that is used by 2 of the world's biggest EdTech companies.

  • Built cloud-native and containerized application that's able to host tens of thousands of real-time users at the same time and is built on AWS Kubernetes EKS using industry standard tools such as FastAPI, Docker, Terraform, Elasticsearch, Gstreamer, Poetry, Postgres, Kafka, DVC, Grafana, Snowflake.
  • Platform uses Object detection, tracking, segmentation, gaze and pose estimation to track students taking an exam. Tailoring all these AI models to work in sequence for thousands of students at the same time was successfully done through industry standard approaches.
  • Develop a platform for monitoring, logging, caching, data layer, and orchestration of Docker containers running on Kubernetes.
  • Worked on building CI/CD pipelines, unit-tests, integration tests and QA. All automated and seamless across team members.
  • Created a dedicated CLI tool that's main purpose of to streamline the dev process between team members and automated all repeated sub tasks such as ticket/branch/merge creations, rebasing, Docker image version synchronization, infrastructure-as-code templates to help build new components..etc.
  • Gained strong leadership skills by managing projects from start to finish.

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

Com-Iot Technologies
08.2018 - 04.2021

Responsible for full deployment of several projects that involve Lidar technology, supported by Camera input and other auxiliary inputs. Our patented systems won several tenders with different Police departments in UAE and Egypt .

  • P3-Speed: Moving speed enforcement system developed for Abu Dhabi Police. Produced for more than 220 cars at phase 1. This US patented software accurately detects moving vehicles on road (while moving), detects all speed/seatbelt and distracted driver violations and captures images of vehicle plates all in realtime. Currently, P3 is deployed in Egypt.
  • I-Trac: Security system for VIP/blacklist people tracking, counting, analytics, PTZ tracking and other customized features for highest profile locations in Dubai such as CityWalk and DXB airport terminal 3 and currently Dubai Consulates and Graveyard area.
  • Slopes: Road surveillance system that works on accurately measuring side road slope angles for road construction work. This project is developed for Ministry of Transportation in Qatar and has significantly reduced cost of rail road construction for Qatar highways.
  • TRC: Total Road Control unit developed for Dubai Police in Alkheil road, for accurate speed enforcement, distracted driver and seatbelt violation safety for 8 lanes in both direction (total 16 lanes).

Deep Learning Researcher

Valeo
04.2017 - 04.2019
  • The team's main scope is leading the AI vision of the one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world, Valeo. Took part, as a starting member, in researching state of the art techniques regarding autonomous driving, hardware deployment of complex models on limited hardware (cars) while maintaining real-time performance.
  • Deep Learning Researcher at Valeo. Works on data extraction, analysis and post processing for safety-critical automotive projects (Regression, Semantic segmentation and detection). Performed data augmentation for better training accuracy.
  • Responsible for reaching real-time performance for end-to-end autonomous driving car systems. Handles deployment for new state-of-the-art network architectures, profiling and benchmarking on ECUs like Jetson Board (Nvidia) and Movidius (Intel).
  • Working on code optimization for kernel coding on the targeted ECUs using CUDA and openCL .

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Business And Psychology

Harvard Business School
01.2023 - Current

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

Cairo University
09.2012 - 06.2017

Education

Egypt,Online

Publications and Patents

  • [NIPS-2018] End-To-End Multi-Modal Sensors Fusion System For Urban Automated Driving
  • [US Patent Issued] Vehicle Tracking from mobile LiDAR Platform
  • [US Patent Issued] End-to-end Distracted Driver Detection on moving vehicle

Summary

At PwC ETIC, I am fortunate to be working alongside great minds committed to distributing our EMEA region with AI accelerated digital transformation that I’m proud to be part on building.
This serves my personal mission to position Egypt as the go-to AI hubs in the region.

At PwC, my role as an AI Delivery Lead is to infuse AI into operational workflows and establish strategic governance. My approach includes leading the development of GenAI capabilities and managing AI Studio (ETIC’s first asset), a critical asset for our EMEA acceleration. Bridging technology and business, I conduct client-centric workshops and forge pivotal alliances, fostering an ecosystem where AI solutions are not just envisioned but enacted.

Certified solution architect from AWS and BCS. First author in 2 research papers on neural network optimization and multi-modal behavioral cloning. Second author in 7 deep learning researches.

2 US patented solutions under my name for smart city application with deployed governmental solutions in GCC.

My educational foundation in Computer Engineering from Cairo University and continued learning through Harvard Business School Online underpins my technical fluency in AI, cloud and software development. Passionate about nurturing future talent, I've previously architected learning solutions at Udacity, impacting thousands by enhancing Egypt's technical capabilities across multiple domains, including data science and cybersecurity.

Timeline

AI Solution Architect | Senior Manager

PwC
04.2023 - Current

Bachelor of Arts - Business And Psychology

Harvard Business School
01.2023 - Current

AI & Cloud Content Learning Architect

Udacity
03.2022 - 03.2023

AI Lead

Rosalyn.ai
04.2021 - 09.2022

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

Com-Iot Technologies
08.2018 - 04.2021

Deep Learning Researcher

Valeo
04.2017 - 04.2019

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

Cairo University
09.2012 - 06.2017
Loay AminAI Solution Architect | Senior Manager