Ali Ezzat
Principal Data Scientist
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Ezzat is a Principal Data Scientist and lead applied scientist based in Cairo with over a decade of experience architecting and delivering production ML systems across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and supply chain. He founded and scaled Synapse Analytics’ data science function, built a team of 10, and designed MLOps-driven platforms and pipelines that support ~25 production models and 15 client deployments. His work includes deploying credit-risk pipelines across 12 financial institutions processing 100K+ applications monthly, reducing defaults by 40% and enabling $150M+ in loans, and building multilingual transformer NLP pipelines for Arabic financial signal extraction. Academically grounded with a PhD in Computer Science and an MSc in Bioinformatics from Nanyang Technological University, he also contributes to drug-discovery tooling (dbparser with 49K+ downloads) and blends domain expertise in bioinformatics with applied ML. Known for translating research-grade models into observable, deployable products, he pairs hands-on engineering with platform strategy to speed model delivery and operational robustness. Outside work he’s an avid board-game enthusiast, reflecting a practical love of complex systems and strategy.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Ain Shams UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Arabic, English, French, Turkish, Japanese
Github Skills (7)
algorithms9
r-package8
parser6
r6
llm5
dataframes1
dataframe1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alizat/Chemogenomic-DTI-Prediction-Methods
Apr 2016 - Apr 2019
Algorithms for prediction of drug-target interactions via computational (chemogenomic) methods
Contributions:38 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
alizat/my_r_snippets
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:74 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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