Karim Ouda
Co-Founder & CTO at SILMA AI
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolKarim 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.
11 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 LeedsBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Modern Sciences and Arts University
English, German, Arabic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
speech10
langchain9
chatgpt9
python9
llm9
typescript9
question-answering9
generative-ai9
ai9
gemini9
openai9
anthropic9
pydantic8
open-source8
browser-automation8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
karimouda/qurananalysis
Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
Smart Search, Exploration, Analysis and Question Answering System for the Quran
Contributions:190 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
question-answering
SILMA-AI/silma-resources
Jun 2025 - Apr 2026
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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