Summary
Karim Ouda is a product-focused technologist and co-founder with over 20 years of experience and a decade-plus of hands-on product leadership, particularly at the intersection of Data, AI and Large Language Models. Based in Berlin, he has led R&D and innovation functions at SAP Signavio and Vodafone, shipped data-driven search and process-mining prototypes, and now builds NextGen Arabic LLMs at SILMA AI while consulting enterprises on generative AI. He combines early-career systems and integration engineering (IBM, middleware, ETL) with founder grit from bootstrapping a social analytics SaaS, enabling him to move ideas from research to production and customers. Known for running design sprints, de-risking prototypes, and navigating corporate standards and security, he blends strategic vision with operational focus and efficiency. An MSc in Advanced Computer Science (Data Science) underpins his work, and he brings an uncommon mix of telecom, e-commerce, and enterprise process expertise to AI productization.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Advanced Computer Science (Data Science), Master of Science (MSc) Advanced Computer Science (Data Science) at University of Leeds
English, German, Arabic