Esraa Dandash
Head Of Data & Insights
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
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Top SchoolEsraa Dandash is a pragmatic data leader with nine years of cross-sector experience building and scaling data teams and production ML systems across the UK and Egypt. Currently Head of Data & Insights at Paymob, she combines hands-on engineering—designing ML pipelines, on-prem and cloud data infrastructure, and LLM-powered applications—with strategic leadership and hiring. Her background spans corporate travel analytics at American Express, CIB digital analytics at Société Générale, and founding data science functions in Egyptian finance where she deployed RAG pipelines, sentiment ML, and real-time dashboards used by thousands of loan officers. A UCL MSc graduate who taught computer science at City, University of London, she keeps one foot in research (knowledge graphs, NLP, statistical modeling) while delivering measurable business outcomes. Colleagues describe her as a leader who “leads from the inside,” writing production code even as she scales teams and embeds AI into core operations.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science - Professional Pathway Track, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science - Professional Pathway Track at City St George’s, University of LondonUniversity College London
Arabic, English
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Github contributions (5)
eydandash/Summer2018TechInternships
Sep 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
pull-requestsadditionsanywhere
eydandash/CityTechSoc-WebDev-101
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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