Yahia Kerim
Software Engineer at Just Eat Takeaway.com
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolYahia Kerim is a software engineer based in Berlin with seven years of experience building backend systems and NLP-driven solutions. He has progressed from academic research—where he led work that beat state-of-the-art multilingual hate-speech models and shipped a Twitter-monitoring platform—to production roles at Legal Doctrine, Mobimeo, and currently Just Eat Takeaway.com. Comfortable across the full stack, he contributes to open source (notably adding JavaScript and TypeScript examples and client updates to the mongoosastic Elasticsearch integration) and focuses on practical integrations that bridge models and application data. His background combines rigorous engineering training from ESI with hands-on machine learning and systems experience, enabling him to move prototypes into scalable services. Colleagues know him for translating research gains into production-ready features and for improving developer experience through clear examples and dependency work.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Ecole nationale Superieure d'Informatique (ESI)
English, French, Arabic
Github Skills (15)
mongoose10
elasticsearchquery10
elasticsearch10
javascript10
nodejs10
typescript10
typescripts10
aws-elasticsearch10
mongodb10
typescript-types10
mongodb-database10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
git4
react4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mongoosastic/mongoosastic
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
Index Mongoose models into elasticsearch automatically.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 21 commits, 13 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Yahia primarily contributed to the example applications, adding both JavaScript and TypeScript examples for the blog application. They focused on integrating the mongoosastic library with Mongoose models in both JavaScript and TypeScript environments. Additionally, the user made changes related to the Elasticsearch client and updated dependencies, showing a focus on the core functionality and the setup of the project.
indexelasticjavascriptnodejsmongoose
yahiakr/bert-elastic-search
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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