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Mahmoud Elkholany at a HUNA community event

Applied AI Engineer · Egypt

Mahmoud Hesham Elkholany

I build AI applications and the backend systems behind them. My recent work includes a clinical assistant with physician review, Arabic/English search, and telecom tools used on client devices.

At HUNA, I handle architecture and code review for an 11-person engineering team. I’m also studying Data Science at Horus University, with graduation expected in 2028.

Experience and responsibilities ↗

Open to AI roles, internships, and freelance work.

Selected work

What I built, the decisions I made, and what each project delivered.

Experience

My roles in software engineering, data analysis, and technical education.

May 2026 – PresentCurrent

AI Software Engineer

HUNA

  • Founding technical member of the Technology sector; own architecture and PR review for an 11-person engineering team across backend, frontend, and DevOps. Reviewed 60+ PRs and led technical training for interns.
  • Built a Gemini-backed clinical AI assistant with validated structured output, physician review, voice dictation, and per-user rate limiting.
  • Built environmental question answering with multi-hop retrieval and cross-lingual Arabic/English semantic search.
Aug 2026 – PresentCurrent

Technical Head

Microsoft Learn Student Club, Horus University

  • Promoted from Data Science Lead. Manage the club’s GitHub organization across Data Science, AI, Cybersecurity, and Embedded Systems for 200+ members.
  • Support track heads in delivering practical exercises and projects alongside sessions.
Jul 2026 – PresentCurrent

Microsoft Student Ambassador

Microsoft

  • Reached 400+ students across six campus sessions introducing Microsoft developer and AI tools.
Sep 2025 – Aug 2026

Data Science Lead

Microsoft Learn Student Club, Horus University

  • Built the BI curriculum and taught 50+ students Python data processing, multi-table SQL, regression, clustering, and Power BI using business scenarios.
Jun 2024 – Oct 2024

AI Code Reviewer / Data Analyst

Outlier AI · Remote

  • Reviewed AI-generated Python across ML and NLP tasks, evaluated reasoning and output quality, and documented factual accuracy and safety issues.
Jul 2023 – Jan 2024

Data Analyst, Telecom

Orange Egypt · Damietta

  • Cleaned and restructured telecom operational data in Excel and SQL, wrote analysis queries, and contributed to internal documentation.

Background and skills

About 7 years of programming, from Python and web development to applied AI.

01

2019–2021

Foundations

Self-taught HTML/CSS and Python, then object-oriented programming through Pygame, backend fundamentals, automation, and early IoT experiments.

02

2022–2023

Systems and devices

Flutter applications, hardware integration alongside teammates, Linux, and deployment workflows.

03

2024–present

Applied AI and engineering leadership

AI applications with real backend integrations, structured model output, retrieval, and technical leadership. Data science and digital twins connect the modeling work to complete systems.

Education
B.Sc. Data Science

Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Horus University of Egypt

2024 — 2028 · Expected graduation

Applied AI

PythonPyTorchscikit-learnGemini APIAnthropic APIRAGStructured output

Backend and delivery

TypeScriptFastAPIReactSQLDockerGitLinux

Data and connected systems

PandasPower BIInfluxDBGrafanaMQTTFlutterKotlin

Certificates and recognition

A growing collection of courses, practical learning, and community recognition.

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Have a role or project in mind?

Open to internships, junior AI engineering roles, and freelance projects. Available for remote work and on-site opportunities in Cairo or Damietta.