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AI & Software Engineer

Mayas AL KHATEEB

Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineer specializing in Backend Development, Machine Learning, Edge AI, and High-Performance Systems. HIAST graduate (89% GPA, top of class) with a background in Competitive Programming, Low-Level C++, and CUDA Optimization.

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89% GPA · HIAST
Experience

Where I've worked.

Industry internships and teaching roles, from production AI systems to competitive programming.

  1. AI & Software Engineer Intern

    Mar 2026 – Aug 2026

    Verisoura · Damascus, Syria

    • Built embedding-based biometric face matching for the SyriaHuwiya eKYC platform, tailored to localized, low-resource datasets and evaluated with EER and TAR@FAR.
    • Developed passive and active anti-spoofing liveness detection using facial landmark tracking.
    • Served models as FastAPI inference services in a microservices backend (Docker, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) with JWT-based RBAC; managed training with Hydra and Azure ML.
    PyTorchFastAPIDockerPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisAzure MLHydra
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  2. Competitive Programming Coach (ICPC)

    Jan 2025 – Aug 2026

    HIAST · Damascus, Syria

    • Coached teams in advanced data structures, graph theory, and DP optimizations.
    • 2 coached teams qualified for the SCPC.
Selected Work

Projects & Implementations

Engineering projects focused on edge vision models, GPU optimization, and artificial intelligence.

Production SaaS

SyriaHuwiya

Enterprise eKYC identity verification platform with biometric face matching and liveness detection.

Match + Liveness
Biometrics
Microservices
Architecture
Polyglot
Storage Model
Enterprise SaaS
Deployment
PythonPyTorchComputer VisionMicroservicesDocker
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Edge AI

Delta

Lightweight monocular depth estimation for mobile devices.

58x
Inference Speedup
92%
Accuracy Retention
SILog + 3 Distill Losses
Loss Functions
ONNX → Flutter
Deployment
PyTorchKnowledge DistillationMobileViTONNXFlutter
Case study
Hybrid CV

DocParse

End-to-end computer vision pipeline converting camera photos into structured, searchable PDFs.

4-Phase Pipeline
Architecture
YOLOv10
Layout Detection
9 Categories
Segmented Classes
Searchable, Editable PDF
Final Output
PythonOpenCVYOLOv10Tesseract OCRPyMuPDF
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Reinforcement Learning

Robot Navigation 2D

Custom 2D LiDAR robotics environment with scratch DQN and PPO navigation agents.

DQN & PPO
Algorithms
200-Ray LiDAR
Sensor Model
Custom Gymnasium
Environment
Headless & Visual
Evaluation
PythonPyTorchGymnasiumReinforcement LearningPyGame
Case study
Distributed Systems

Distributed All-Reduce

C++ and MPI implementation of core distributed deep learning reduction algorithms.

Star, Tree, Ring
Topologies
Constant per node
Ring Complexity
C++ / OpenMPI
Language & API
Doxygen + Makefile
Tooling
C++MPIOpenMPIDistributed SystemsParallel Computing
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Compilers

MiniPascal Compiler

A Pascal subset compiler frontend and semantic analyzer written in C++.

Flex + Bison
Grammar Tools
Visitor Pattern
AST Traversal
Scoped Symbol Table
Scope Model
C++FlexBisonCompiler DesignAbstract Syntax Trees
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About

Background & Engineering Focus

I graduated top of my class from HIAST in AI & Software Engineering. My background combines competitive programming with hands-on systems, from training and distilling vision models to writing custom CUDA kernels and compilers.

Education

HIASTOct 2021 - Sep 2026

BSc, Artificial Intelligence & Software Engineering

Graduated top of class with an 89% GPA.

Achievements

Silver Medal — HIAST CPC

Competitive Programming Contest.

Qualified for Regional ACM ICPC

Africa & Arab Collegiate Programming Contest qualification.

89% GPA — Top Graduate

BSc in Artificial Intelligence & Software Engineering, HIAST.

Codeforces Expert Rating

Achieved the 'Expert' rating on Codeforces, Max Rating: 1700.

Toolset

What I build with.

AI & Machine Learning

  • PyTorch
  • Transformers
  • Knowledge Distillation
  • Computer Vision
  • OpenCV
  • YOLOv8 / YOLOv10

Languages

  • Python
  • C / C++
  • C#
  • Java
  • Rust
  • TypeScript / JavaScript

Parallel & Distributed Computing

  • CUDA (CuPy)
  • MPI / mpi4py
  • OpenMP
  • Java Concurrency

Web & Frameworks

  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • ASP.NET
  • Spring Boot
  • React
  • Node.js

Data Science & Visualization

  • Streamlit
  • Data Mining
  • Data Visualization D3.js
  • Matplotlib / Seaborn

DevOps & Tooling

  • Docker
  • Git
  • GitHub Actions
  • CI/CD
  • Linux
Contact

Let's connect.

Feel free to reach out via email, Telegram, or connect on LinkedIn.

alkhateebmayas997@gmail.comGitGud-fMayas Alkhateeb@Mayas_AGitGuud