Ibrahim H. El-Shal Applied Data Scientist
Career

Experience

Eight years building production AI/ML systems across telecom networks — from applied data science to MLOps to teaching the next generation.

Professional Experience

  1. Sep 2022 – Present
    Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Leads applied AI/ML delivery for Mobily's network operations — architecting LLM-powered analytics, forecasting, and anomaly-detection systems, and aligning data science roadmaps with C-level and RAN/core engineering leadership across an 18M+ subscriber base.

    • Designed and deployed a RAG-based fault analysis system (hybrid BM25 + FAISS retrieval with cross-encoder re-ranking), cutting mean time to resolution for P1 incidents by ~35% across an 18M+ subscriber base.
    • Built a Seq2Seq LSTM forecasting pipeline for 4G/5G capacity prediction, improving forecast accuracy by 22% and enabling proactive planning for 3 regional NOCs.
    • Developed LLM-assisted analytics dashboards unifying structured KPI/KQI data with unstructured alarm logs, improving data visibility by 30% and saving ~8 hours/week of manual reporting for 30+ network engineers.
    • Engineered Apache Superset + SparkSQL + Hive pipelines processing 50M+ daily records for real-time ML scoring and executive reporting.
    • Deployed ensemble anomaly detection (Isolation Forest + LSTM Autoencoder) on 4G/5G OSS data, flagging capacity degradation events with 91% precision.
    PythonLLMsRAGLSTMTime-Series ForecastingSparkHiveSupersetAnomaly Detection
  2. Nov 2021 – Aug 2022
    Bucharest, Romania
    Part-time · Remote

    Delivered network automation capabilities for Orange Egypt as a part-time remote contributor to Orange Innovation's automation team.

    • Delivered network automation features using Cisco NSO, Python, YANG, EVE-NG, and Ansible, contributing $20K+ in project profit for Orange Egypt.
    Cisco NSOPythonYANGEVE-NGAnsible
  3. Jul 2020 – Aug 2022
    Giza, Egypt

    Owned MLOps and disaster-recovery platform engineering for Orange Egypt, industrializing ML deployment pipelines and leading a cross-functional Agile transformation.

    • Designed and automated Docker + Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for ML model deployment, achieving zero-downtime rollouts across 5 production services.
    • Led development of the NetFix disaster-recovery platform (Elasticsearch, Kafka, OpenDistro, Ansible), where ML-powered log monitoring cut incident detection time by 25%.
    • Built ML-ready ingestion pipelines into Elasticsearch at scale, enabling near-real-time alerting for security and operations teams.
    • Led a cross-functional team of 5+ engineers through a full Agile transformation over 10 months, doubling sprint delivery frequency.
    • Resolved critical security vulnerabilities on production Linux servers via Ansible playbooks, improving compliance posture across 8 servers.
    DockerJenkinsElasticsearchKafkaAnsibleCI/CD
  4. Apr 2018 – Jun 2020
    Giza, Egypt

    Applied machine learning to microwave transmission network data at NEC, driving measurable efficiency gains in resource planning.

    • Applied supervised and unsupervised ML models to mobile traffic patterns, improving power-control efficiency and cutting over-provisioning across 200+ microwave links by ~18%.
    • Built an internal Python-based IP dimensioning and site-configuration tool, streamlining planning workflows for 8+ engineering teams and cutting manual planning effort by 40%.
    PythonMachine LearningTelecom Analytics
  5. Feb 2017 – Mar 2018
    Giza, Egypt

    Planned and engineered microwave transmission network architecture for large-scale telecom infrastructure projects.

    • Engineered microwave network architecture for stadium connectivity during the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, delivering on time and within budget across 6 venues.
    Network PlanningMicrowave Transmission

Teaching Experience

  1. Jul 2023 – Present
    Online, Egypt

    Teaches and mentors students across AI, Data Engineering, and Wireless Communication tracks at Egypt's Information Technology Institute.

    • Delivers technical training sessions across the AI, Data Engineering, and Wireless Communication tracks.
    • Mentors capstone project teams with hands-on guidance and code reviews.
    AIData EngineeringWireless Communication