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Bader Zakaria

AI & Agentic Systems Engineer

I build AI systems that move from prototype to production.

Agents · RAG · Knowledge Graphs · Data Platforms · AI Products

I design intelligent systems that retrieve, reason, use tools and operate inside real business workflows — while staying observable, secure and controllable.

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Lebanon ↔ FranceAvailable internationally

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countries

28

countries

Mobility data platform built from the ground up to 28 countries

Source: Smart Mobility Lab
data volume

~10×

data volume

Approximate data-volume increase handled by the platform

Source: Smart Mobility Lab
years experience

7+

years experience

Professional engineering experience — from software to agentic AI systems, since 2019

Source: Intelligile
working languages

3

working languages

French · English · Arabic — and products built in all three

Source: Multilingual Knowledge Platform

02Work

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Case studies written for three readers: skim the thesis, read the system, inspect the decisions.

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01In production2024 — present

Data platform · Smart Mobility Lab

European Mobility Intelligence Platform

Production data and AI pipelines turning fragmented national vehicle-registration sources into one trusted reference — built from the ground up to 28 countries.

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Snowflake
  • ClickHouse
  • pandas
  • Prophet
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“Experimentation is useful. Production needs repeatable contracts.”
02R&D prototype2026

Agentic Vehicle Intelligence

Specialised agents search the web for vehicle prices, validate them, normalise currencies and persist the result — with provenance — in a Neo4j knowledge graph.

  • Python
  • Multi-agent
  • DuckDuckGo search
  • Web scraping
  • Neo4j
  • Cypher
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03MVP operational2026

Human-in-the-loop · Deterministic control plane

AI Operations Control Room

Agents where useful. Deterministic software where mistakes have consequences.

A Telegram-first control plane for researching, drafting, approving and publishing financial content. AI drafts; a state machine decides; a human approves.

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04Deployment-ready2026

Multilingual Knowledge Platform

A private French-, Arabic- and English-language document library with personal libraries, search, recommendations and an administrative publishing workflow.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Firebase Auth
  • Firestore
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05Delivered2021

ML foundation · Utrender · 2021

Audience Analytics with Computer Vision

A Python/OpenCV system measuring how people interact with advertising screens, with an associated IoT web application — AI work that predates the LLM wave.

  • Python
  • OpenCV
  • Computer vision
  • IoT
  • Web application
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“Generative AI is one more capability — not a replacement for the fundamentals.”

03How I think about production AI

A capable model is the beginning, not the system.

  1. 01

    Understand the decision

    What are we solving, for whom — and what happens when the system is wrong?

  2. 02

    Design the boundary

    What is probabilistic, what stays deterministic, and which tools may an agent touch?

  3. 03

    Build the system

    Models, retrieval, tools, APIs, data and interfaces become one architecture.

  4. 04

    Evaluate

    Quality needs evidence: tests, validation rules, failure analysis, feedback.

  5. 05

    Control

    Sensitive actions need permissions, audit trails and, where it matters, a human.

  6. 06

    Operate

    Logs, monitoring, cost and deployment decide whether it survives outside a demo.

04Accumulated capability

Each layer stays. The stack grows.

  1. 2019
    Software
  2. 2021
    Machine Learning
  3. 2022
    Data & Integration
  4. 2022
    Generative AI
  5. 2024
    Agentic Systems
  6. 2025
    Technical & Product Lead

05  Contact

Let's build useful AI

I'm interested in ambitious teams working on agentic AI, enterprise AI, knowledge systems, data platforms and AI product engineering — across Lebanon, France and international teams.