Smail Kourta
Software Engineer at Canonical
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolSmail Kourta is a software engineer with 8 years of experience bridging machine learning research and production engineering, currently at Canonical after driving RL data infrastructure at NYU Abu Dhabi. He designed gRPC-based pipelines and Python/C++ libraries that sped up model training and experimentation by multiple factors, and built distributed Ray scripts that collected millions of datapoints for experiments. Comfortable across the stack, Smail has delivered Jamstack web platforms, real-time manufacturing monitoring systems, and automated CI/CD and onboarding workflows for startups and research groups. His research includes a published e-graph-based term rewriting system implemented in Rust that improved prior results, reflecting a rare mix of systems-level programming and ML research. He has led teams, mentored students, and established hiring and certification processes, showing strong operational and people skills in addition to technical depth. Based in Abu Dhabi, he combines academic rigor from ESI and Université de Paris with hands-on product experience across Europe and the UAE.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Ecole nationale Superieure d'Informatique (ESI)Apprentissage machine pour la sciences des données, Data Science, Masters Degree, Apprentissage machine pour la sciences des données, Data Science, Masters Degree at Université de Paris
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Github Skills (121)
data-platform10
optimization9
charm9
x5098
portable8
ray8
nuxt-module8
operator8
python8
code-generation8
parallel8
opensearch8
semantic8
mongodb8
child-process8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Tiramisu-Compiler/TiraLib
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 releases, 5 reviews, 79 PRs in 1 year 8 months
caviar-trs/caviar
Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
Implementing Halide's TRS inside of EGG
Contributions:221 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
egghalide
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