AI & Software Engineering Consultant

Youssef Ghatas, Ph.D.

AI & Software Engineering Consultant | Founder, TiTrias

AI & Software Engineering Consultant with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and 12+ years of experience architecting, building, and scaling enterprise software and production AI systems. Founder of TiTrias, delivering consulting engagements for startups, enterprises, and government organizations across Europe, the United States, and the Middle East.

12+years of experience
3 regionsEurope, US & Middle East
Ph.D.Artificial Intelligence

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Youssef Ghatas, AI and Software Engineering Consultant

Production AI Systems

Design and delivery of dependable AI products, including multimodal generation, RAG, self-hosted models, model integrations, evaluation, privacy controls, and responsible guardrails.

AI product architecture
RAG and model integration
MCP-enabled systems
PII detection and anonymization
Cost and usage controls
Production evaluation and guardrails

Software & Platform Architecture

Architecture and implementation for cloud-native, multi-tenant, API-first, and offline-first platforms that need to scale without sacrificing maintainability.

System and solution architecture
Multi-tenant SaaS platforms
API and integration design
Data architecture and performance
Offline-first and real-time systems
Modernization and technical debt reduction

Application Security Engineering

Engineering security capabilities directly into software delivery, from source analysis and dependency intelligence to dynamic testing and compliance-aware workflows.

SAST and DAST pipelines
SCA and vulnerability workflows
SBOM generation
License compliance
Risk-aware AI assistants
Secure CI/CD

Technical Leadership & Delivery

Hands-on technical leadership for products and teams that need senior direction while continuing to ship.

Technical strategy and roadmaps
Architecture reviews
Delivery planning
Team enablement and mentoring
Quality and reliability practices
Founder and executive technical advisory

214,000+annual active usersTiTrias interactive historical knowledge platform

1.2 million+annual user interactionsTiTrias interactive historical knowledge platform

40,000+registered users servedAutomotive commerce and booking platform

>80%response-time reductionImportant production pages after database and application optimization

>99%platform availabilityDistributed construction monitoring platform

8,000+products supportedAutomotive e-commerce catalog

Intersect AI · Bulgaria, Europe

May 2025 - Jan. 2026

Delivered a governance-first, multi-tenant AI platform with multimodal generation, Model Context Protocol foundations, self-hosted model support, privacy guardrails, anonymization, cost controls, and comprehensive API access.

Enabled enterprise use of text, image, and video models through one governed platform.
Supported GDPR- and HIPAA-aligned workflows with PII detection and anonymization.

Codenteam · Bulgaria, Europe

Sep. 2024 - May 2025

Delivered application security and AI-assisted analysis capabilities spanning static analysis, SBOM generation, license compliance, SCA, DAST sandboxing, RAG workflows, integrations, and delivery hardening.

Expanded the platform with integrated source, dependency, license, and dynamic security analysis.
Improved service stability through distributed job queues across AWS Fargate.

Tawfiqia · Cairo, Egypt

Apr. 2020 - Jun. 2023

Restructured, reimplemented, optimized, and expanded a large automotive e-commerce and service-booking platform.

Supported a catalog of 8,000+ products and a community of 40,000+ registered users.
Reduced response times for important pages by more than 80% through query tuning, indexing, caching, and schema improvements.

Asphalt Manage · Cairo, Egypt

Feb. 2017 - Jun. 2019

Delivered a multilingual construction operations platform spanning supply-chain workflows, offline-first field APIs, fleet tracking, geofencing, reporting, and a real-time TCP gateway for GT06N devices.

Sustained more than 99% platform availability.
Connected distributed field stations, projects, factories, transporters, and tracking hardware.

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology · Cairo, Egypt

Sep. 2023 - May 2026

Co-led software, web, mobile, and DevOps tracks for the Digital Egypt Builders Initiative, contributed to curriculum development and execution, and led the Freelancing Track.

Connected modern software engineering curricula with practical program delivery.
Provided technical and freelancing leadership across multiple learning tracks.

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