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Mohammed ABUSARAR
From France 08:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
$100,000/yr

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Data Engineer

Data Scientist
Available for hire
Years of experience
7+ years
Experience level
Senior
Available from
12 Apr 2026

I'm a Data Engineer & ML Architect with 10+ years of experience at the intersection of big data, NLP, and distributed systems. What makes my profile unusual is the combination of deep technical expertise — Spark, Kafka, MLOps, cloud-native architectures — with a genuine linguistic background and a specialization in Arabic NLP that's rare in the industry. I've built and scaled data infrastructure for high-traffic platforms (50M+ users at Careem, 10M+ daily events at Canva), led cross-functional data teams, and shipped production ML systems in multilingual environments. My work spans the full stack: from raw ETL pipelines and data lakehouse design to fine-tuned BERT models and real-time recommendation engines. I'm trilingual (French, English, Arabic), I've worked across Gaza, Paris, Doha, Sydney, and Dubai, and I thrive in distributed, multicultural teams. I don't just build pipelines — I architect systems that drive business decisions and power AI products at scale. Currently based in France, I'm looking for a Data Engineer or Data Scientist role where I can bring both technical depth and cross-domain perspective to a product or data-driven team.

Employment History

Lead Data Engineer at Careem (Uber) - Dubai 2022 - 2026
• Designed and migrated data infrastructure to Data Mesh architecture at Careem (food delivery & super-app, 50M+ users) • Developed structured Spark pipelines processing 1.3TB/day of geolocation and order data: 70% latency reduction • Implemented MLOps platform (MLflow + Kubernetes) for deploying multilingual NLP models (AR/EN) for personalized recommendations • Technical coordination with Product and Data Science teams (15 people)
Senior Data Scientist / NLP Engineer at Canva 2020 - 2022
• Contributed to "Magic Studio" team (Canva AI tools): developed NLP pipelines for automatic template suggestions and sentiment analysis on user feedback (10M+ comments/day) • Fine-tuned multilingual BERT models: 23% improvement in suggestion relevance • Optimized BigQuery queries reducing infrastructure costs by 35% • Close collaboration with UX teams for AI feature integration
Data Engineer at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) 2018 - 2020
• Developed and deployed Big Data pipelines for NLP research projects (Arabic dialect processing, social media analysis) • Built Scala/Spark ETL framework for Twitter data ingestion (2M tweets/hour) • Contributed to "Arid" project (Arabic media analysis tool) used by Qatar ministries • Technical publication on Spark optimization for NLP in cloud environments
Data Scientist / AI Developer at Freelance 2016 - 2018
• Developed NLP solution for international NGO (automated analysis of field reports in local languages - AR/FR/EN): 88%+ accuracy, used by 300+ field users • Created analytics platform for e-commerce startup (real-time dashboards, product recommendations) • Customer data processing pipeline for market analysis
Intern NLP Engineer at Gaza Sky Geeks 2014 - 2016
• Built local news analysis system from Arabic sources (scraping + NLP) • Supervised developer interns and trained them in Python/Spark fundamentals • Migrated internal applications to Docker architecture

Education

Master's in Big Data (Computer Science) at Université Paris 8 2025 - 2026
Bachelor's in Computational Linguistics - NLP at Université Paris-Cité 2020 - 2021
Intensive Data Science & Engineering Program at Gaza Sky Geeks 2015 - 2015
Bachelor's in Computer Science at Islamic University of Gaza 2014 - 2018