Elie Kawerk
Staff Data Scientist
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolElie Kawerk is a Staff Data Scientist based in Berlin with a decade of experience turning analytics and machine learning into measurable business impact across retail, payments, and delivery platforms. He specialises in experiment design, causal inference and production ML—having built high-impact systems like recommender engines, uplift-driven churn prevention, and credit risk models at scale. Elie blends hands-on data engineering and MLOps with cross-functional leadership, mentoring teams and embedding rigorous data quality and experimentation practices. Notably, his Word2Vec-based recommender delivered dramatic revenue uplifts and was featured by AWS, reflecting an ability to ship both research-led and production-grade solutions. He emphasises the scientific method over tool fetishism, advocating iterative failure and learning as the path to real value.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Physics, Master's degree Physics at Lebanese University - Faculty of SciencesExecutive Program in Algorithmic Trading Algorithmic Trading, Executive Program in Algorithmic Trading Algorithmic Trading at QuantInstiData Architect Nanodegree, Data Architect Nanodegree at UdacityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Physics at Sorbonne University
German, English, French, Arabic, German
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Github Skills (39)
data-quality10
reinforcement-learning10
natural-language-processing10
computer-vision10
data-science9
python9
machine-learning9
sql9
deep-learning9
science9
logging9
probability8
data-engineering8
dataops7
statsmodels7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eliekawerk/Lebanon_AI_meet_up
Apr 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
eliekawerk/applied-ml
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
📚 Papers and blogs by organizations sharing their work on data science & machine learning in production.
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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