Tarek Morsi

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What I do

Agentic Workflows

Designing multi-step LLM agents that plan, retrieve, and act, turning fuzzy goals into reliable automated pipelines.

Prompt Engineering

Shaping model behaviour through structured prompts, tool schemas, and evaluation loops for consistent, grounded output.

Applied ML & Federated Learning

Predictive modeling and privacy-preserving federated learning with Flower, from data prep to model serving.

Scalable AI Systems

5+ years shipping distributed, cloud-based backends. Bringing AI into production on GCP with Docker and CI/CD.

Toolbox

Languages

Python SQL TypeScript Dart Swift JavaScript

ML & AI

PyTorch TensorFlow Scikit-learn Federated Learning (Flower) LLM Integration Embeddings

Backend & Data

Flask PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB NumPy Pandas

Cloud & Tools

GCP Docker GitHub Actions Git Pub/Sub Redis

Experience

Nov 2022 - Nov 2023

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Location Chesterbrook, PA, USA

Joined the Stilt team (acquired Dec 2022) to build a new lending platform that expanded from serving 2 states to 37, using Flask, PostgreSQL, and GCP.
Architected and maintained an infrastructure of 56 services, leveraging messaging queues, cron jobs, webhooks, Docker, Firebase, Pub/Sub, and Redis.
Led a predictive risk-scoring model that shortened the customer journey and reduced decision time to under 3 seconds, enabling automated borrower approvals.

Nov 2021 - Sep 2022

Software Engineer II, Backend

Location San Francisco, CA, USA

Initial team member building the backend from scratch in Flask, MySQL, and GCP over 3 months before launch, contributing to code reviews, design docs, and QA test plans.
Designed a testing framework and wrote 576 unit, integration, and end-to-end test cases into the CI/CD pipeline, enhancing code reliability.
Managed on-call duties, responding to incidents and supporting up to 5 fintech startups through onboarding and API integration.

Oct 2020 - Nov 2021

Software Engineer, Full Stack

Location San Francisco, CA, USA

Refactored the mobile app with Flutter and the MVVM pattern using providers for state management, achieving a 0.01% crash rate and minimizing UI bugs.
Lifted the app store rating from 2.1 to 4.4, reflecting the impact of technical improvements on customer satisfaction.
Resolved a critical payment-returns issue from an outdated third-party API, ensuring 100% of affected users were refunded via daily cron jobs, SFTP transfers, and file parsing.

Education

Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM)

2024 — 2026

Master — European AI4CI: Artificial Intelligence for Connected Industries

Paris, France

German University in Cairo (GUC)

2019

BSc — Computer Science and Engineering

Cairo, Egypt

Hi, I'm Tarek

AI Master's student at CNAM with 5+ years of software engineering across distributed, cloud-based systems. I build applied ML, federated learning, and agentic LLM workflows that ship.