AI and software, end to end.

I build AI and software solutions across the full life cycle: understanding the business need, preparing the data, R&D, and deploying to production.

7 years of industrial and teaching experience

Quicksort BNP Paribas Egis Ryte 7 Sensing Software Viridien Social Objects Freelancer.com UPEC Sup de Vinci EFREI Amundi

About

Seven years, several companies, one throughline.

Issa Hammoud

01 — Experience

R&D to Production at startups and corporates.

Seismic Processing

12/2019 – 01/2022

Viridien (ex CGG)

R&D Computer Vision Engineer · Massy

A geoscience technology group, formerly CGG, providing seismic imaging, Earth data and digital solutions to the energy sector.

  • Trained from scratch U-Net based models for seismic-to-seismic processing: denoising, deghosting, and semantic segmentation.
  • Optimised training and inference to take the models from research to production.
  • Refactored the codebase, with unit and regression tests and Sphinx documentation.
  • Gave technical support to processing centres worldwide.

Edge AI

02/2022 – 01/2024

7 Sensing Software

R&D Computer Vision Engineer · Paris

A startup developing real-time computer vision and signal processing solutions that run on edge devices.

  • Built an end-to-end depth estimation solution fusing RGB and dToF sensors, from data preparation to deployment on mobile phones.
  • Designed and optimised models for resource-limited devices, using quantization for real-time deployment.
  • Designed and benchmarked visual inspection models, with unsupervised methods to speed up labelling.
  • Pretrained classification models with contrastive self-supervised learning.

Healthcare

01/2024 – 07/2024

Ryte

Machine Learning Engineer · Paris

A medical startup building a Doctolib-like appointment booking app for the US market.

  • Built a vision-language model that extracts physician information from web pages.
  • Benchmarked the state of the art in visual document understanding: end-to-end models against OCR-based pipelines.
  • Fine-tuned an end-to-end model, in few-shot and full training, improving extraction metrics by 10%.
  • Built a web app for data collection and curation, and two repositories from scratch.

Civil Engineering

08/2024 – 07/2026

Egis

AI / ML Engineer · Montreuil

An international engineering and mobility services group, operating in 100+ countries with around 20,000 employees.

  • Improved the RAG pipeline behind an AI assistant on the company’s documents.
  • Developed and trained a new PDF layout detection approach, improving document parsing accuracy.
  • Added multimodal understanding and retrieval, and citation extraction, working closely with product managers.
  • Cut Azure costs by speeding up inference, and designed a secure, sovereign deployment for the nuclear teams.

Consulting

08/2026 → Present

Current

Quicksort

AI Team Lead · Paris

A consulting firm working with clients in France and abroad.

  • Build the AI platform at BNP Paribas, unifying AI work across projects: RAG, agent harness and observability.
  • Lead the system design and cost estimate for a request for proposal (RFP) from a nationwide client in Saudi Arabia.
  • Lead the recruitment and staffing of junior and senior engineers.
  • Prepare teaching materials for training sessions and meetups.

02 — Teaching

To master it,
teach it.

I deliver Python and machine learning sessions to engineering students and to enterprise teams.

University

UPEC

Python for L1

Engineering school

Sup de Vinci

Deep Learning for M2

Engineering school

EFREI

Machine Learning for M1

Company

Amundi

Python training

Online course

Intuitive Deep Learning

A foundational deep learning course in Arabic for anyone who wants the intuition behind the technology and the maths to back it up.

View the course

04 — Testimonials

What it is like to
work with me.

“I had the privilege of working with Issa at Ryte.ai when he joined the Computer Vision Team as a Computer Vision Engineer. Issa was in charge of a major key project on his own, focusing on Visual Question Answering to extract relevant information from physician profiles. The way he leveraged his state-of-the-art literature review to kick off the practical part of the project was brilliant. While reading dozens of articles on the topic, he delved deep into the details, often using pen and paper, and shared his discoveries with the entire team through lecture sessions and SharePoint summaries. While coding, he consistently ensured that his code was as clean and understandable as possible for the rest of the team. Although I didn’t directly work on his project, an intern mentioned that he had no difficulty understanding and reusing Issa’s chunks of code. Issa’s deep theoretical understanding, coupled with his extraordinary critical thinking, enabled him to identify tricky issues during debugging and quickly propose solutions by connecting the dots with core Deep Learning concepts (such as gradient descents and attention mechanism) limitations or characteristics.”

Testimonial from a coworker

August 2024 · LinkedIn

“Issa delivered the project with the utmost care and professionalism and on time. He’s a talented and capable individual, with great communication skills as well. His understanding of the AI/ML space is extremely high, and he would be an asset to anyone looking to engage him in projects involving LLMs, RAG, AI, ML, etc.”

Knowledge graph-based memory storage research

August 2025 · Freelancer.com

“He always delivered on time. He is very professional and it was a pleasure to work with him. I recommend him 100%.”

AI real-time movement recognition & analysis

October 2024 · Freelancer.com

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