ZEAbout Zakaria
Principal AI Consultant (LLM/NLP & Data) with 20+ years across product & data. I design and industrialize LLM assistants (RAG), NLP systems, ML pipelines, and analytics with a sharp focus on ROI, quality, and compliance.
Highlights: Diaggy.ai HealthTech app from idea to App/Play Store; synthetic-data platform for BI testing at scale; financial-news analysis pipeline (ingest → NLP/LLM enrichment); and wake-word accuracy improvements using robust FAR/FRR benchmarking.
Background in regulated environments (Rothschild & Co AM, Société Générale, Amundi), and public-sector leadership at the Digital Development Agency (AI governance & national roadmap).
I deliver : discovery & value cases, secure LLM prototypes → production, MLOps & data pipelines (incl. synthetic data), and client enablement.
Stack: Python, FastAPI, LLMs (GPT-4/-o, Llama...), vector search, MongoDB, Selenium, BI (Power BI).
Arabic
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Can work on-site
Genève (up to 50km), Zurich (up to 50km)
Experience
- Diaggy.AI & ECCELLIUMFounding Leader | Product Owner & Manager | Generative AI & Data SolutionsDIGITAL AND ITJanuary 2023 - Today (3 years and 5 months)Paris, Franceo Diaggy.AI – Mobile AI for HealthtechLed the end-to-end development of diaggy.ai, a mobile application for medical and general pre-diagnosis powered by LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Oversaw product design, model integration, and deployment to Google Play and App Store.o Synthetic Data Platform for BI TestingDesigned and delivered a data generation platform that transforms data models into dynamic, configurable test scenarios. Enabled users to generate and visualize large synthetic datasets with AI-assisted rule definition and real-time generation tracking.o Financial News Analysis Pipeline with LLMsDeveloped an automated pipeline to ingest and analyze financial news from Yahoo Finance. Used Python, Selenium, and MongoDB to extract and structure content, scheduled with logging and backup. Enriched data with NLP and LLMs to extract asset references, sentiment, and market-impact signals for financial modeling and prediction tasks.o AI Co-Development with RAIN (US & Abu Dhabi)Spearheaded a wake-word detection improvement initiative targeting >90% accuracy. Audited and reverse-engineered OpenWakeWord models, redesigned the evaluation methodology (FAR/FRR), and established benchmarking practices using wake-word-benchmark against industry standards.
- Digital Development Agency (Government Agency)Director of Digital EcosystemDIGITAL AND ITDecember 2020 - December 2022 (2 years)Rabat, Morocco• Project manager & Product manager: Start-up Ecosystem Development/ Regulatory Department/ National Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence.
- Digital Development Agency (Government Agency)Head of the Digital Transformation DepartmentDIGITAL AND ITApril 2019 - December 2020 (1 year and 8 months)Rabat, Morocco• Industry 4.0 project manager – Smart Factory/ Digital Auto-Entrepreneur/ Digital SME/ Startup ecosystem/ Young Innovative Business Certification.
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Education
- Master's degree of the Ecole des Mines(Institut Mines-Telecom)2005Master's degree of the Ecole des Mines
- Master's Degree inCNAM2008Master's Degree in