Bechir Sellami

- Oversaw the bank's AI portfolio, driving strategic initiatives that delivered ~15M AED in financial impact within the first year.
- Delivered AI strategy presentations to the Executive Committee and Board.
- Partnered with vendors and internal stakeholders to implement AI solutions across the bank.
- Revamped GenAI-based chatbots, substantially increasing response quality and improving customer experience. (Tech stack: Azure OpenAI, LangChain)
- Conducted AI workshops for 250+ employees, fostering an AI-enabled workplace.

Helped scale the AI Lab by hiring 10+ team members and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
Built and deployed several machine learning models—including classification, named entity recognition (NER), and segmentation:
- Designed and deployed an AI-powered payments clearing system that handles $400B+ in daily financial transactions, scaling operations while saving the equivalent of 4 FTEs.
- Secured a high-profile AI project by outperforming a competing startup in developing an ML-driven AML solution, reducing error rate by 50%.
- Streamlined payments clearing by developing an NER-based address parsing system, converting unstructured global addresses into structured components with 95% accuracy.
- Implemented a Document Image Transformer (DiT) model automating financial data extraction from scanned reports and reducing manual intervention.

Helped scale the AI Lab by hiring 10+ team members and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
Built and deployed several machine learning models—including classification, named entity recognition (NER), and segmentation:
- Designed and deployed an AI-powered payments clearing system that handles $400B+ in daily financial transactions, scaling operations while saving the equivalent of 4 FTEs.
- Secured a high-profile AI project by outperforming a competing startup in developing an ML-driven AML solution, reducing error rate by 50%.
- Streamlined payments clearing by developing an NER-based address parsing system, converting unstructured global addresses into structured components with 95% accuracy.
- Implemented a Document Image Transformer (DiT) model automating financial data extraction from scanned reports and reducing manual intervention.

- Designed and deployed software applications for the automated collection and analysis of financial markets data. (Tech Stack: C#, PowerShell, T-SQL, SQL Server)
- Managed daily data delivery pipelines supporting multi-billion-dollar equity portfolio optimization, reducing delays and enhancing trading decisions.
- Developed interactive dashboards to track data processing workflows, improving operational visibility.

Implemented operations research algorithms to optimize vehicle routing and inventory management. (Tech Stack: C#, C++, CPLEX, Linux)

- Partnered with key stakeholders to define new performance metrics for client portfolio management.
- Designed and developed analytics dashboards to enhance client management efficiency.

• Delivered several IT consulting projects for banking and industrial clients, optimizing business
processes and system performance.