Sofiane Abbar
Staff ML Software Engineer at Meta
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSofiane Abbar is a Staff ML Software Engineer with nine years of experience applying computer science and machine learning to social and urban challenges, currently leading safety efforts for WhatsApp’s over 2 billion users. He specializes in integrity and the privacy-vs-safety tradeoffs in end-to-end encrypted environments, blending research rigor from a PhD with production-grade engineering at Meta. His background spans urban mobility, map making, recommender systems, news analytics, and computational social science, with deep Python-based ML development from his time at Qatar Computing Research Institute. Known for navigating hard interdisciplinary problems, he pairs academic insight with hands-on leadership to ship large-scale, user-facing safety systems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-YvelinesEngineer, Computer Science, Engineer, Computer Science at Ecole nationale Superieure d'Informatique (ESI)Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Université Paris Dauphine - PSL
English, French, Arabic, Kabyle
Github Skills (42)
mapbox-gl-js9
android-js9
datasets9
machine-learning9
openmaptiles9
styles9
vector-tiles9
tile-server9
torchvision9
tilemap9
computer-vision9
server-side8
pytorch8
rendering8
mapbox-gl8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vipyoung/kharita
Feb 2017 - Jan 2020
Robust and online map inference from gps data
Contributions:29 commits, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
vipyoung/karwa_ml_school
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
Material for Machine learning for Karwa
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
scikit-learnmachine-learning
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