Michael Farag
Staff ML Engineer at Monarch
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
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Top SchoolMichael Farag is a Staff ML Engineer with a decade of experience building production-grade AI systems that scale, currently creating the Monarch AI Assistant to help people understand and manage their finances. He combines deep learning expertise in computer vision and NLP with hands-on ownership of the full ML lifecycle—from data acquisition and scraping to deployment—work honed at Pinterest, Focal Systems, and research roles at Waterloo. A Master of Mathematics in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, he has led web-scale content understanding and extraction projects that power search, personalization, and recommendation pipelines. Known for improving model accuracy in production and being the first ML engineer in Pinterest’s Toronto office, he brings both startup agility and enterprise-scale rigor. Unusually, his background spans academic research, cloud deployments, and even winning a global ACM student chapter award, highlighting a blend of technical depth and community impact.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Systems Engineering at Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria UniversityHigh School, High School at Victoria CollegeMaster of Mathematics, Computer Science, Master of Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Arabic, French
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Github Skills (12)
benchmarking6
entity6
benchmark5
named-entity-recognition4
annotator4
extraction3
entity-linking2
knowledge-graph2
graph2
javascript1
dbpedia1
dom1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MichaelAzmy/RDF-Deduplication
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
karimelazzouni/IncrementalShortestPath
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
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