ENGINEER & RESEARCHER

MALAK
MEKYASSI

AI & Software Engineering — building production ML systems, from research to deployment

CASABLANCA, MOROCCO

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ABOUT

Technical Foundation

AI & Software Engineering student at ENSAM Casablanca specializing in ML security, reinforcement learning, and AI infrastructure. I build things end-to-end — RAG pipelines, defensive ML tooling, hierarchical RL systems.

2x hackathon winner, including a 1st place recognised at an international AI conference alongside Yann LeCun and Eric Xing.

EXPERIENCE

Professional Journey

Software Engineering Intern

Jun – Sep 2025

NowEdge • Casablanca

•Built a production multi-tenant RAG chatbot using FAISS vector search, sentence-transformer embeddings, and JWT-based client isolation
•Engineered a typosquatting detection model via multi-heuristic domain classification, achieving 80% precision
•Architected an LTI 1.3-compliant platform with OAuth2/OpenID Connect

AI Trainer

Nov 2024 – Present

Outlier AI, Alignerr, Prolific • Remote

•Authored 500+ prompt-response pairs and adversarial test cases for RLHF fine-tuning pipelines across Python, SQL, C, and Java

PROJECTS

Selected Works

SXR — Model Security X-Ray

5-layer defensive ML security pipeline detecting adversarial threats in serialised model files (.pth, .safetensors, .h5) — covering LSB steganographic payload injection, Pickle RCE exploits, and backdoor attacks.

PythonUMAPHDBSCANPyTorchResearch paper in preparation

HRL Trading System

3-level Hierarchical Deep RL trading system over SPY, AAPL, and BTC-USD — PPO trend classifier (L1), PPO action agent (L2), SAC position-sizing agent (L3).

PPOSACStable-Baselines3Python

Aegis — AI Policy Decision-Support

AI-powered decision support platform for policymakers. RAG chatbot, case study library of 8 international AI policies, and Impact Simulator predicting social/economic/governance effects.

FastAPIChromaDBReactVercel1st place — AgorAI Hackathon

JarvisLfla7

Voice-first AI assistant designed as a personal agronomist for Moroccan farmers. Built during HackAI across NLP, Federated Learning, and VLM challenges.

NLPFederated LearningVLMVoice2nd place — HackAI

Medicore

AI clinical safety assistant built on Mistral OCR and a real-time voice pipeline for healthcare professionals.

Mistral OCRVoice PipelinePythonTop 10 globally — Mistral AI Worldwide Hackathon

PlagAi

Plagiarism detection system using Jaccard similarity, TF-IDF cosine similarity, and n-gram analysis. Supports batch processing and configurable thresholds.

PythonNLTKscikit-learn

ACHIEVEMENTS

Hackathon Wins

1st Place

AgorAI

Aegis — AI Policy Decision-Support Platform

Presented at international AI conference alongside Yann LeCun and Eric Xing

EMINES / École Polytechnique / EMSI-Honoris

2nd Place

HackAI

JarvisLfla7 — Voice-first AI Agronomist

Voice-first AI assistant for Moroccan farmers

Top 10 Globally

Mistral AI Worldwide Hackathon

Medicore — AI Clinical Safety Assistant

AI clinical safety assistant with Mistral OCR and voice pipeline

EDUCATION

Academic Background

Engineer's Degree in AI & Software Engineering

ENSAM Casablanca

Oct 2022 – Present

•Coursework: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, NLP, Advanced Algorithms, Databases
•Research paper in preparation: "Defensive ML Security: Adversarial Threat Detection and Backdoor Neutralisation in Serialised Model Files"

TECHNICAL ARSENAL

Skills & Expertise

ML & AI

PyTorchTensorFlowStable-Baselines3GymnasiumFAISSSentence TransformersChromaDBXGBoostNLPRLDeep Learning

Backend & Infra

PythonSQLCJavaFlaskDjangoFastAPIDockerJWTOAuth2

Research

UMAPHDBSCANAdversarial MLRAG pipelinesRLHF

Languages

English (fluent)French (fluent)Arabic (native)Tamazight (native)

LEADERSHIP

Community & Impact

President

Sep 2023 – Jun 2025

Rotaract ENSAM Casablanca

Led 30+ member team, organised social integration programmes for children with Down syndrome and autism

VP & Sponsoring Manager

Feb 2026 – Present

Student Council ADE

Co-led council operations, secured corporate sponsors, raised funding for student events

Participant

Sep – Dec 2025

McKinsey Forward Program

Executive education and strategic consulting training

Participant

Jul 2025 – Feb 2026

Dell STEM Aspire Program

Mentored by industry professionals via Dell STEM Aspire, gaining leadership experience and practical career insight in tech

PYTORCH•TENSORFLOW•PYTHON•FAISS•STABLE-BASELINES3•FASTAPI•CHROMADB•RAG•RLHF•CUDA•DOCKER•SQL•PYTORCH•TENSORFLOW•PYTHON•FAISS•STABLE-BASELINES3•FASTAPI•CHROMADB•RAG•RLHF•CUDA•DOCKER•SQL•PYTORCH•TENSORFLOW•PYTHON•FAISS•STABLE-BASELINES3•FASTAPI•CHROMADB•RAG•RLHF•CUDA•DOCKER•SQL•PYTORCH•TENSORFLOW•PYTHON•FAISS•STABLE-BASELINES3•FASTAPI•CHROMADB•RAG•RLHF•CUDA•DOCKER•SQL•

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING•ADVERSARIAL SECURITY•NEURAL NETWORKS•ML INFRASTRUCTURE•DEEP LEARNING•NLP•ATTENTION•EMBEDDINGS•OPTIMIZATION•SCALABILITY•EFFICIENCY•RESEARCH•REINFORCEMENT LEARNING•ADVERSARIAL SECURITY•NEURAL NETWORKS•ML INFRASTRUCTURE•DEEP LEARNING•NLP•ATTENTION•EMBEDDINGS•OPTIMIZATION•SCALABILITY•EFFICIENCY•RESEARCH•REINFORCEMENT LEARNING•ADVERSARIAL SECURITY•NEURAL NETWORKS•ML INFRASTRUCTURE•DEEP LEARNING•NLP•ATTENTION•EMBEDDINGS•OPTIMIZATION•SCALABILITY•EFFICIENCY•RESEARCH•REINFORCEMENT LEARNING•ADVERSARIAL SECURITY•NEURAL NETWORKS•ML INFRASTRUCTURE•DEEP LEARNING•NLP•ATTENTION•EMBEDDINGS•OPTIMIZATION•SCALABILITY•EFFICIENCY•RESEARCH•

ENGINEER & RESEARCHER

MALAK
MEKYASSI

AI & Software Engineering — building production ML systems, from research to deployment

CASABLANCA, MOROCCO

GitHub LinkedIn mmekyassi@gmail.com

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ABOUT

Technical Foundation

2x hackathon winner, including a 1st place recognised at an international AI conference alongside Yann LeCun and Eric Xing.

EXPERIENCE

Professional Journey

Software Engineering Intern

Jun – Sep 2025

NowEdge • Casablanca

•Built a production multi-tenant RAG chatbot using FAISS vector search, sentence-transformer embeddings, and JWT-based client isolation
•Engineered a typosquatting detection model via multi-heuristic domain classification, achieving 80% precision
•Architected an LTI 1.3-compliant platform with OAuth2/OpenID Connect

AI Trainer

Nov 2024 – Present

Outlier AI, Alignerr, Prolific • Remote

•Authored 500+ prompt-response pairs and adversarial test cases for RLHF fine-tuning pipelines across Python, SQL, C, and Java

PROJECTS

Selected Works

SXR — Model Security X-Ray

PythonUMAPHDBSCANPyTorchResearch paper in preparation

HRL Trading System

3-level Hierarchical Deep RL trading system over SPY, AAPL, and BTC-USD — PPO trend classifier (L1), PPO action agent (L2), SAC position-sizing agent (L3).

PPOSACStable-Baselines3Python

Aegis — AI Policy Decision-Support

AI-powered decision support platform for policymakers. RAG chatbot, case study library of 8 international AI policies, and Impact Simulator predicting social/economic/governance effects.

FastAPIChromaDBReactVercel1st place — AgorAI Hackathon

JarvisLfla7

Voice-first AI assistant designed as a personal agronomist for Moroccan farmers. Built during HackAI across NLP, Federated Learning, and VLM challenges.

NLPFederated LearningVLMVoice2nd place — HackAI

Medicore

AI clinical safety assistant built on Mistral OCR and a real-time voice pipeline for healthcare professionals.

Mistral OCRVoice PipelinePythonTop 10 globally — Mistral AI Worldwide Hackathon

PlagAi

Plagiarism detection system using Jaccard similarity, TF-IDF cosine similarity, and n-gram analysis. Supports batch processing and configurable thresholds.

PythonNLTKscikit-learn

ACHIEVEMENTS

Hackathon Wins

1st Place

AgorAI

Aegis — AI Policy Decision-Support Platform

Presented at international AI conference alongside Yann LeCun and Eric Xing

EMINES / École Polytechnique / EMSI-Honoris

2nd Place

HackAI

JarvisLfla7 — Voice-first AI Agronomist

Voice-first AI assistant for Moroccan farmers

Top 10 Globally

Mistral AI Worldwide Hackathon

Medicore — AI Clinical Safety Assistant

AI clinical safety assistant with Mistral OCR and voice pipeline

EDUCATION

Academic Background

Engineer's Degree in AI & Software Engineering

ENSAM Casablanca

Oct 2022 – Present

•Coursework: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, NLP, Advanced Algorithms, Databases
•Research paper in preparation: "Defensive ML Security: Adversarial Threat Detection and Backdoor Neutralisation in Serialised Model Files"

TECHNICAL ARSENAL

Skills & Expertise

ML & AI

PyTorchTensorFlowStable-Baselines3GymnasiumFAISSSentence TransformersChromaDBXGBoostNLPRLDeep Learning

Backend & Infra

PythonSQLCJavaFlaskDjangoFastAPIDockerJWTOAuth2

Research

UMAPHDBSCANAdversarial MLRAG pipelinesRLHF

Languages

English (fluent)French (fluent)Arabic (native)Tamazight (native)

LEADERSHIP

Community & Impact

President

Sep 2023 – Jun 2025

Rotaract ENSAM Casablanca

Led 30+ member team, organised social integration programmes for children with Down syndrome and autism

VP & Sponsoring Manager

Feb 2026 – Present

Student Council ADE

Co-led council operations, secured corporate sponsors, raised funding for student events

Participant

Sep – Dec 2025

McKinsey Forward Program

Executive education and strategic consulting training

Participant

Jul 2025 – Feb 2026

Dell STEM Aspire Program

Mentored by industry professionals via Dell STEM Aspire, gaining leadership experience and practical career insight in tech

MALAKMEKYASSI

Technical Foundation

Professional Journey

Software Engineering Intern

AI Trainer

Selected Works

SXR — Model Security X-Ray

HRL Trading System

Aegis — AI Policy Decision-Support

JarvisLfla7

Medicore

PlagAi

Hackathon Wins

AgorAI

HackAI

Mistral AI Worldwide Hackathon

Academic Background

Engineer's Degree in AI & Software Engineering

Skills & Expertise

ML & AI

Backend & Infra

Research

Languages

Community & Impact

President

VP & Sponsoring Manager

Participant

Participant

MALAKMEKYASSI

Technical Foundation

Professional Journey

Software Engineering Intern

AI Trainer

Selected Works

SXR — Model Security X-Ray

HRL Trading System

Aegis — AI Policy Decision-Support

JarvisLfla7

Medicore

PlagAi

Hackathon Wins

AgorAI

HackAI

Mistral AI Worldwide Hackathon

Academic Background

Engineer's Degree in AI & Software Engineering

Skills & Expertise

ML & AI

Backend & Infra

Research

Languages

Community & Impact

President

VP & Sponsoring Manager

Participant

Participant

MALAK
MEKYASSI

MALAK
MEKYASSI