Professional resume

Youssef Ghatas

AI & Software Engineering Consultant | Founder, TiTrias

Cairo, Egypt youssef@titrias.com (+2) 01101023436 youssef-ghatas

Summary

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.

Professional Experience

AI & Software Engineering Consultant

Intersect AI · Bulgaria, Europe

  • Delivered a multi-tenant AI platform with abuse protection, guardrails, and multimodal generation for text, image, and video.
  • Established Model Context Protocol foundations and support for self-hosted models.
  • Added cost calculation, PII guardrails, and anonymization supporting GDPR and HIPAA compliance.
  • Shipped comprehensive API access and validated integrations with developer tooling.

Technologies: TypeScript, NestJS, TypeORM, React, MCP, RAG, NLP, PII, GDPR, HIPAA, LLM, Generative AI, SSO, S3, Flask, React.js

AI & Software Engineering Consultant

Codenteam · Bulgaria, Europe

  • Delivered static analysis, automated SBOM generation, license compliance, SCA vulnerability pipelines, DAST sandboxing, and RAG-based assistant workflows.
  • Shipped Slack integrations, multi-channel notifications, CI/CD hardening, and distributed job queues across AWS Fargate services.

Technologies: TypeScript, NestJS, TypeORM, Angular, RAG, SAST, DAST, SBOM, SCA, Slack Bolt, Docker, AWS Fargate, Nest.js, Git

Consultant

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology · Cairo, Egypt

  • Co-led the Digital Egypt Builders Initiative software track in the first semester and the Web, Mobile, and DevOps tracks in the second semester.
  • Contributed to curriculum development and execution.
  • Led the Freelancing Track.

Founder & Principal Consultant

TiTrias · Cairo, Egypt

  • Software consultancy delivering AI, cloud-native, and enterprise software solutions.
  • Engagements for startups, enterprises, and government organizations across Europe, the United States, and the Middle East.

Technical Founder

BillDude · Cairo, Egypt

  • Shipped an offline-first, cross-platform group expense platform on the App Store and Play Store.
  • Delivered an on-device NLP model optimized for mobile memory and inference, AI expense capture, real-time multi-device sync, and automated debt-simplification settlement.

Technologies: Flutter, NestJS, PostgreSQL, PowerSync, ONNX, Rust, PyTorch, Maestro, Fastlane, TypeORM, Riverpod

Software Engineering Consultant

Tawfiqia · Cairo, Egypt

  • Restructured and optimized an automotive e-commerce platform serving 8,000+ products and 40,000+ registered users.
  • Reduced response times for important pages by more than 80% through query tuning, indexing, caching, and schema improvements.

Technologies: Laravel, PHP, JavaScript, Vue.js, MySQL, Redis, Docker, Cypress

Technical Founder

HistoryDraft · Cairo, Egypt

  • Built an interactive historical knowledge platform serving 214,000+ annual active users and generating 1.2 million+ annual interactions.
  • Engineered a searchable and extensible map-based visualization system for historical data.

Technologies: Angular, Angular Universal, NgRx, Angular Material, Mapbox, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Nest.js, GraphQL

Senior Software Engineer (Independent Contractor)

Asphalt Manage · Cairo, Egypt

  • Delivered a multilingual construction monitoring platform spanning supply-chain operations, field stations, projects, factories, and transporters while sustaining more than 99% availability.
  • Delivered offline-first field APIs, GPS fleet tracking with geofencing, role-scoped access, operational reporting, and a real-time TCP gateway for GT06N trackers.

Technologies: PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Node.js, TCP, GT06N, Google Maps, Sentry, Supervisor

Academic Experience

Assistant Professor

Computer Engineering, Cairo University · Cairo, Egypt

  • Teaches undergraduate Software Engineering and Image Processing & Computer Vision.
  • Teaches postgraduate Advanced Computer Vision and Advanced Programming and Programming Paradigms.

Assistant Professor

Computational Sciences and Artificial Intelligence, Zewail City of Science and Technology · Cairo, Egypt

Redesigned the Software Engineering course with modern projects and lectures.

Lecturer Assistant

Computer Engineering, Cairo University · Cairo, Egypt

  • Designed new tutorial labs and sessions for image processing & computer vision
  • Design and supervised software engineering project for implementing fully deployed cross-platform websites with recent technologies and DevOps advanced concepts and led the labs' executions
  • Assisted in designing Robotics project requirements based on ROS

Teaching Assistant

Computer Engineering, Cairo University · Cairo, Egypt

  • Designed and adapted cloud-based lab sessions for the Distributed Operating Systems course, supervising students as they built a multiplayer online turn-based game using WebSocket.
  • Assisted in delivering multiple courses including Programming techniques, Data Structure, Operating Systems

Education

Ph.D.

Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University

Symbolic Music Analysis and Generation Using Deep Learning Approaches

M.Sc.

Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University

Multimedia sentiment analysis using modified CNN and RNN models

B.Sc.

Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University

Ranked third in class

Selected Publications

A hybrid deep learning approach for musical difficulty estimation of piano symbolic music

AEJ, Elsevier

Impact factor 6.8, Q1

Generic symbolic music labeling pipeline

IEEE Access

Impact factor 3.9, Q2

Small models, significant risks: jailbreaking attacks on lightweight LLMs

IEEE ACSDA 2026

Certificates & Achievements

1st Place, IC11 Image Innovation Challenge

Topcoder

AI for simultaneous object detection and scene understanding, optimized for IoU and BERT semantic similarity

Rookie of the Month

Topcoder

Professional Scrum Master

Scrum.org

Google Project Management: Professional Certificate

Google

Six-course professional certificate

Social Psychology

Wesleyan University / Coursera