Bachir Aoun
AI & Enterprise Platforms Contact Center & GenAI Transformation
Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
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Top SchoolBachir Aoun is a Senior Director of Engineering and GenAI with 15+ years of leadership experience and a PhD in physics, currently driving AI-led transformation of HR and people functions at Walmart. He combines hands-on data science, statistical modeling, and optimization with a collaborative coaching style to deliver measurable business impact across talent acquisition, learning, workforce enablement, and payroll. Previously he led conversational and NLP programs at Humana and AT&T, building enterprise-grade ML libraries and production pipelines that consolidated and sanitized large-scale conversational and voice data. His background in computational science and modeling—from battery degradation to biomolecular simulations—gives him uncommon depth in translating complex scientific methods into practical AI solutions. Known for shaping cross-functional strategy and influencing C-level decisions, he thrives on discovering well-defined problems, assembling high-performing teams, and turning rigorous models into improved processes and ROI. Based in Bentonville, he blends research-grade technical rigor with pragmatic execution to modernize people systems at scale.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Fundamental physics - Nanotechnology, Master, Fundamental physics - Nanotechnology at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at Université d'Orléans
English, French, Arabic, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
artificial-intelligence10
machine-learning-algorithms10
monte-carlo10
python9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
deep-learning9
deep-neural-networks8
ml8
pyinstaller7
package7
logging6
accumulate6
sum6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bachiraoun/pyrep
Jun 2015 - Mar 2024
This is a pythonic way to organize dumping and pulling python objects and/or any other type of files to a repository.
Contributions:114 pushes, 2 branches, 5 tags in 8 years 10 months
python
bachiraoun/pysimplelog
Apr 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:86 commits, 122 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
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