Professional resume
Youssef Ghatas
AI & Software Engineering Consultant | Founder, TiTrias
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
Impact factor 6.8, Q1
Impact factor 3.9, Q2
Certificates & Achievements
AI for simultaneous object detection and scene understanding, optimized for IoU and BERT semantic similarity
Six-course professional certificate