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Majd Barghouti

Software Developer

AI · Computer Vision · Full Stack

Palestine / 2026CV
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01About

I take models out of the notebook and into production.

I’m in Ramallah. I write the model and the system it lives in: the database, the server, the login screen nobody thanks you for.

So far that has meant OCR that reads Arabic, Hebrew and English off a passport, trucks that invoice their own routes, and a transactions dashboard that municipalities and the Prime Minister’s Office open every morning.

Before that, four years of Computer Science and AI in Madrid. I won the Ryanair datathon predicting aircraft takeoff weight to 816 kg, and spent my capstone teaching a network to invent drug molecules.

I like the unglamorous half. The part that still has to work after the demo is over.

02Selected Work

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  1. Municipal Intelligence Platform

    Bank of Palestine

    Internal system

    Full Stack · Data · Analytics · 2026

    A transactions dashboard for Palestinian municipalities and the Prime Minister’s Office. I built the stack, ran the database, deployed the server, and worked out who gets to see what.

  2. TrOCR Fine-Tuned

    AL Mashreq Insurance

    GitHub

    Computer Vision · OCR · NLP · 2024

    A transformer OCR model fine-tuned on identity documents. It pulls clean fields off IDs, driver licenses and passports in Arabic, Hebrew and English, and handles every passport type in circulation.

  3. Novel Drug Discovery

    IE University — Capstone

    Read the paper

    Research · Generative ML · Graphs · 2024

    My capstone. A reinforcement-learning GAN and a junction-tree VAE, put to work inventing drug molecules that are chemically real and biologically useful.

  4. Aircraft Weight Prediction

    Ryanair Datathon — 1st place

    Read the article

    Machine Learning · Sustainability · 2022

    Predicting what a plane weighs at takeoff to within 816 kg, with a CO₂ plan attached. It won the IE Sustainability Datathon.

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03Experience

  1. 2026 — Present

    Bank of Palestine

    Software Developer — Ramallah

    Built the municipal transactions platform end to end, and keep the database and server running behind it.

  2. 2025 — Present

    Independent

    AI Engineer — MENA

    Product-matching algorithms, GPS fleet tracking that invoices itself, and waste collection routed off the data it produces.

  3. 2024

    AL Mashreq Insurance

    AI/ML Developer — Ramallah

    OCR that reads identity documents in three scripts, plus a screening model that reads CVs so HR doesn’t have to.

  4. 2023

    Storyme

    Software Development Intern — Remote

    Three AI features shipped to production on Azure, built in Scrum sprints with TensorFlow, Keras, CNNs and NLP.

  5. 2023

    NTT Data & o9 Datathon

    Award

    4th place — Madrid

    A classifier that spots faults in a gas network at 0.9 ROC-AUC.

  6. 2022

    Ryanair Datathon

    Award

    1st place — Madrid

    Aircraft takeoff weight to within 816 kg, with a CO₂ plan attached.

  7. 2020 — 2024

    IE University

    Study

    BSc Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence — Madrid

    Graph ML, healthcare ML, NLP, computer vision, reinforcement learning, statistical learning.

  8. 2018 — 2020

    Friends Boys School

    Study

    International Baccalaureate — Ramallah

04Technology

Tools I use to build

Build

The stack I write in

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Flutter
  • REST APIs
  • Azure

Data

Where the mess gets cleaned

  • SQL Server
  • Pandas
  • Feature engineering
  • Dashboards

Intelligence

The models themselves

  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • Keras
  • OpenCV
  • Transformers

Ship

How it leaves my laptop

  • Git
  • Azure DevOps
  • Model deployment
  • Server administration

05Contact

Have an idea? Let’s build it.

Email is the fastest way in, and I answer all of it.