Current roleJan 2026 — Present
Data Scientist L2
Paymob ↗
Building multi-region merchant AI and OCR document verification. Developing a Financial Advisor Copilot.
Egypt · UAE · KSA00 / Data science / Applied AI
Mostafa Gamal.
Built on research.
Made for the real world.
I’m a Data Scientist at Paymob. I turn language models, retrieval systems, and AI agents into useful products, from merchant support to document verification.
⌖ Cairo, Egypt · Intelligence, with intention.
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RESEARCH → REALITY
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Mostafa Gamal
Data Scientist L2 @ Paymob
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Language models · Retrieval systems
AI agents · Production engineering
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Research → Build → Measure → Improve
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75%
Faster merchant onboarding
70%
Chatbot resolution rate
<5 min
Internal ticket escalation
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Markets: Egypt · UAE · KSA
01 / Now
Working on useful intelligence.
Research & open sourceBuild · Share · Learn
Ideas into working systems.
Exploring retrieval, language models, and agentic applications. Sharing projects, technical writing, and published research.
Explore GitHub →02 / Selected work
Different problems. One curious mind.
INDEX → RETRIEVE → GENERATE
≡Documents→RAG→✧Answers
RELEVANT CONTEXT. USEFUL ANSWERS.
001 / Retrieval systems
Mini-RAG
A modular system for document indexing, vector search, and answers grounded in relevant context.
FastAPIQdrantDocker
FIELD NOTES / PRODUCTION AI
Keep ituseful.
GENERATIVE AI / MEDIUM
Writing / Production AI
The Boring Truth That Wins in Production
Why simple approaches can make stronger production systems.
Read article ↗YOUR PERSONAL STUDY CREW
Read01Write02Listen03Speak04
FOUR SKILLS. ONE PLAN.
003 / AI agents / education
IELTS / TOEFL Coach
An AI study assistant that creates personal preparation plans and gives writing feedback through a chat interface.
CrewAIStreamlit
03 / Profile
A curious mind. A rigorous practice.
Research-minded.
Production-focused.
I’m a Data Scientist based in Cairo, working at the intersection of language models, machine learning, and the engineering that makes them useful.
From open-source contributions to systems serving merchants across Egypt, UAE, and KSA, I like taking ideas all the way to impact.
Download résumé ↓- Role
- Data Scientist L2
- Team
- Paymob
- Focus
- Language models · Production AI
- Education
- BSc Computer Science
Helwan University · 2024
Excellent with honors · GPA 3.65 - Base
- Cairo, Egypt
The path so far
Data Scientist L2 @ Paymob
Multi-region merchant AI, OCR verification, and a Financial Advisor Copilot in development.
Data Scientist @ Paymob
Production chatbots, internal RAG support, and automated KPI reporting that saved five hours a week.
Data Scientist Intern @ Paymob
Embedding and LLM evaluation, prompts, AI agents, and deployment workflows.
NLP Engineer Intern @ OMOTO.ai
RAG, PDF mining, fine-tuning, and Arabic datasets.
ML Contributor @ Unify.ai
Contributions to Ivy and interoperability across ML frameworks.
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