Summary
Firas Kassawat is a Senior Software Engineer and AI specialist with nine years of experience building production ML and cloud-native systems across Europe. He combines deep research experience from a PhD and university projects on simplifying ML and XAI with hands-on engineering—delivering data migration frameworks in Java/C#, IoT image recognition, and end-to-end ML pipelines on Azure and AWS. At Machine Learning Reply he contributed to Ethical AI initiatives and built OpenAI-powered customer service solutions, while at PITERION he led complex legacy-to-PLM migrations. Comfortable across backend, DevOps, and embedded stacks, he has a track record of turning research prototypes into maintainable production services. Based in Bonn, he brings a pragmatic focus on explainability and data quality that often reveals hidden failure modes early in deployments.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Infomation Science, Doctor of Infomation Science at The University of Bonn
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology
Arabic, English, French, German