Hi, I’m Haykel Bargougui, an AI/ML Engineer with 2+ years of experience in Machine Learning, LLMs, Generative AI, fine-tuning, agentic AI, and conversational/speech agents. I enjoy building end-to-end AI systems that combine data, code, and models to solve real-world problems. I have led AI projects across industrial settings, built multi-agent workflows, and deployed scalable AI solutions on cloud platforms. I’m excited to contribute to innovative AI development in a CDI role.

Haykel Bargougui

Hi, I’m Haykel Bargougui, an AI/ML Engineer with 2+ years of experience in Machine Learning, LLMs, Generative AI, fine-tuning, agentic AI, and conversational/speech agents. I enjoy building end-to-end AI systems that combine data, code, and models to solve real-world problems. I have led AI projects across industrial settings, built multi-agent workflows, and deployed scalable AI solutions on cloud platforms. I’m excited to contribute to innovative AI development in a CDI role.

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Hi, I’m Haykel Bargougui, an AI/ML Engineer with 2+ years of experience in Machine Learning, LLMs, Generative AI, fine-tuning, agentic AI, and conversational/speech agents. I enjoy building end-to-end AI systems that combine data, code, and models to solve real-world problems.

I have led AI projects across industrial settings, built multi-agent workflows, and deployed scalable AI solutions on cloud platforms. I’m excited to contribute to innovative AI development in a CDI role.

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Language

Arabic
Fluent
French
Fluent
English
Fluent
Spanish; Castilian
Intermediate

Work Experience

End of Study Project at SAMP
May 1, 2025 - Present
Designed and implemented an AI agentic workflow for industrial scene understanding by integrating spatial information into LLMs. Processed and aligned 3D point cloud features with instruction-tuned LLMs using LoRA fine-tuning techniques. Tackled tasks such as spatial reference resolution, question answering, and scene description to bridge the gap between 3D geometry and natural language. Trained and evaluated the system on AWS cloud infrastructure with H100 GPUs, achieving improvements in grounding accuracy and context-aware responses.
Part-time AI/ML Engineer at iTransformer365
May 1, 2024 - Present
Developed Agents in LangGraph using OpenAI GPT LLMs for action-based search with advanced prompt engineering. Utilized LangChain and MultiChain to manage external data and explore LLM configurations for output diversity. Experimented with LLMs including DeBERTa, LLaMA, and BERT to fine-tune responses with LoRA techniques.
AI Team Leader at Innovative Realities
October 1, 2024 - October 15, 2025
Led the enhancement of transcription accuracy using advanced audio processing and transformer models. Adapted WhisperX and FasterWhisper for bilingual transcription, integrating Nemo and Pyannote for diarization. Utilized LLMs via GPT API for data extraction and employed RAG to optimize API performance.
NLP Intern at ESG Smarter
September 1, 2023 - October 15, 2025
Managed data collection, cleaning, augmentation, and vectorization with techniques like TF-IDF and Word2Vec. Developed sentiment analysis models including RNN and XGBoost; integrated with Docker for deployment.
End of Study Project at SAMP
May 1, 2025 - Present
Designed and implemented an AI agentic workflow for industrial scene understanding by integrating spatial information into LLMs. Processed and aligned 3D point cloud features with instruction-tuned LLMs using LoRA fine-tuning techniques. Tackled tasks such as spatial reference resolution, question answering, and scene description to bridge 3D geometry and natural language. Trained and evaluated on AWS cloud infrastructure with H100 GPUs, achieving improvements in grounding accuracy and context-aware responses.
Part-time AI/ML Engineer at iTransformer365
May 1, 2024 - Present
Developed Agents in LangGraph using OpenAI GPT LLMs for action-based search with advanced prompt engineering. Utilized LangChain and MultiChain to manage external data and explore LLM configurations for output diversity. Experimented with LLMs including DeBERTa, LLaMA, and BERT to fine-tune responses with LoRA techniques.
AI Team Leader at Innovative Realities
October 1, 2024 - October 16, 2025
Led the enhancement of transcription accuracy using advanced audio processing and transformer models. Adapted WhisperX and FasterWhisper for bilingual transcription, integrating Nemo and Pyannote for diarization. Utilized LLMs via GPT API for data extraction and employed RAG to optimize API performance.
NLP Intern at ESG Smarter
September 1, 2023 - October 16, 2025
Managed data collection, cleaning, augmentation, and vectorization with techniques like TF-IDF and Word2Vec. Developed sentiment analysis models including RNN and XGBoost; integrated with Docker for deployment.
End of Study Project at SAMP
May 1, 2025 - October 29, 2025
Designed and implemented an AI agentic workflow for industrial scene understanding by integrating spatial information into LLMs. Processed and aligned 3D point cloud features with instruction-tuned LLMs using LoRA fine-tuning techniques. Tackled tasks such as spatial reference resolution, question answering, and scene description to bridge the gap between 3D geometry and natural language. Trained and evaluated the system on AWS cloud infrastructure with H100 GPUs, achieving improvements in grounding accuracy and context-aware responses.
AI/ML Engineer at iTransformer365
May 1, 2024 - October 29, 2025
Developed Agents in LangGraph using OpenAI GPT LLMs for action-based search with advanced prompt engineering. Utilized LangChain and MultiChain to manage external data and explore LLM configurations for output diversity. Experimented with LLMs including DeBERTa, LLaMA, and BERT to fine-tune responses with LoRA techniques.
AI Team Leader at Innovative Realities
October 1, 2024 - October 1, 2024
Led the enhancement of transcription accuracy using advanced audio processing and transformer models. Adapted WhisperX and FasterWhisper for bilingual transcription, integrating Nemo and Pyannote for diarization. Utilized LLMs via GPT API for data extraction and employed RAG to optimize API performance.
NLP Intern at ESG Smarter
September 1, 2023 - September 1, 2023
Managed data collection, cleaning, augmentation, and vectorization with techniques like TF-IDF and Word2Vec. Developed sentiment analysis models including RNN and XGBoost; integrated with Docker for deployment.
End of Study Project at SAMP
May 1, 2025 - November 5, 2025
Designed and implemented an AI agentic workflow for industrial scene understanding by integrating spatial information into LLMs. Processed and aligned 3D point cloud features with instruction-tuned LLMs using LoRA fine-tuning techniques. Addressed spatial reference resolution, question answering, and scene description to bridge 3D geometry and natural language. Trained and evaluated the system on AWS cloud infrastructure with H100 GPUs, achieving improvements in grounding accuracy and context-aware responses.
Part-time AI/ML Engineer at iTransformer365
May 1, 2024 - November 5, 2025
Developed Agents in LangGraph using OpenAI GPT LLMs for action-based search with prompt engineering; leveraged LangChain and MultiChain to manage external data and explore LLM configurations for output diversity; experimented with DeBERTa, LLaMA, and BERT to fine-tune responses with LoRA techniques.
End of Study Project - AI Engineer at SAMP
May 1, 2025 - November 5, 2025
Designed and implemented an AI agentic workflow for industrial scene understanding by integrating spatial information into LLMs. Processed and aligned 3D point cloud features with instruction-tuned LLMs using LoRA fine-tuning. Resolved spatial references, answered questions, and generated scene descriptions to bridge 3D geometry and natural language. Trained and evaluated on AWS with H100 GPUs, improving grounding accuracy and context-aware responses.
AI/ML Engineer (Part-time) at iTransformer365
May 1, 2024 - November 5, 2025
Developed Agents in LangGraph using OpenAI GPT LLMs for action-based search, with prompt engineering. Used LangChain and MultiChain to manage external data and explore LLM configurations for output diversity. Experimented with DeBERTa, LLaMA, and BERT with LoRA-based fine-tuning.
AI/ML Engineer at iTransformer365
May 1, 2024 - November 5, 2025
Developed Agents in LangGraph using OpenAI GPT LLMs for action-based search with advanced prompt engineering; utilized LangChain and MultiChain to manage external data and explore LLM configurations for output diversity; experimented with LLMs including DeBERTa, LLaMA, and BERT to fine-tune responses with LoRA techniques.
End of Study Project AI/ML Engineer at SAMP
May 1, 2025 - November 5, 2025
Designed and implemented an AI agentic workflow for industrial scene understanding by integrating spatial information into LLMs. Processed and aligned 3D point cloud features with instruction-tuned LLMs using LoRA fine-tuning techniques. Tackled spatial reference resolution, question answering, and scene description to bridge 3D geometry and natural language. Trained and evaluated the system on AWS cloud infrastructure with H100 GPUs, achieving improvements in grounding accuracy and context-aware responses.
End of Study Project (AI Agentic Workflow) at SAMP
May 1, 2025 - Present
Designed and implemented an AI agentic workflow for industrial scene understanding by integrating spatial information into LLMs. Processed and aligned 3D point cloud features with instruction-tuned LLMs using LoRA fine-tuning techniques. Tackled spatial reference resolution, question answering, and scene description to bridge 3D geometry and natural language. Trained and evaluated the system on AWS cloud infrastructure with H100 GPUs, achieving improvements in grounding accuracy and context-aware responses.
AI Engineer at SAMP
April 1, 2025 - October 1, 2025
Built an agentic AI workflow for industrial scene understanding by extending LLM capabilities through instruction fine-tuning. Integrated 3D point cloud features into instruction-tuned LLMs through LoRA for geometry-aware reasoning. Achieved 0.75 accuracy in spatial grounding across tasks such as reference resolution, 3D QA, and scene reasoning. Trained and evaluated models on AWS H100 GPUs, improving grounding consistency and response quality.
Project Lead at Innovative Realities
May 1, 2024 - October 1, 2024
Improved STT accuracy by fine-tuning WhisperX and integrating NeMo and Pyannote for bilingual transcription. Enhanced transcription output with NLP techniques and built LLM-based extraction pipelines using the GPT API and RAG. Managed end-to-end model fine-tuning and deployment workflows for scalable AI transcription systems.

Education

Engineering Studies at National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (INSAT), Tunisia
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2025
Engineering Studies: Computer Networks and Telecommunications; Minor in Machine Learning, Deep Learning and MLOps; Speciality: Computer Vision at National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (INSAT)
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2025
Engineering Studies: Computer Networks and Telecommunications; Minor in Machine Learning, Deep Learning and MLOps; Speciality: Computer Vision at National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (INSAT), Tunisia
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2025
Engineering Studies (Computer Networks and Telecommunications) with Minor in Machine Learning, Deep Learning and MLOps; Speciality: Computer Vision at National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (INSAT)
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2025
Engineering Studies in Computer Networks and Telecommunications; Minor in Machine Learning, Deep Learning and MLOps; Speciality: Computer Vision at National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (INSAT), Tunisia
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2025
Engineering Studies (Computer Networks and Telecommunications); Minor in Machine Learning, Deep Learning and MLOps at National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (INSAT)
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2025
Engineering Studies at National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (INSAT), Tunisia
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2025
Engineering Studies at National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (INSAT), Tunisia
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2025
Engineering Degree in Computer Networks and Telecommunications; Specialization in Artificial Intelligence at National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (INSAT), Tunisia
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2025

Qualifications

Deep Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - October 15, 2025
Machine Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - October 15, 2025
WONR Agent in Langraph - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - October 15, 2025
JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures - freeCodeCamp
January 11, 2030 - October 15, 2025
Deep Learning Specialization
January 11, 2030 - October 16, 2025
Machine Learning Specialization
January 11, 2030 - October 16, 2025
WONR Agent in Langraph
January 11, 2030 - October 16, 2025
JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures
January 11, 2030 - October 16, 2025
Deep Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - October 29, 2025
Machine Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - October 29, 2025
WONR Agent in Langraph - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - October 29, 2025
JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures - freeCodeCamp
January 11, 2030 - October 29, 2025
Deep Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
Machine Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
WONR Agent in Langraph - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures - freeCodeCamp
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
Deep Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
Machine Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
WONR Agent in Langraph - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures - freeCodeCamp
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
Deep Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
Machine Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
WONR Agent in Langraph - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures - freeCodeCamp
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
Deep Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
Machine Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
WONR Agent in Langraph - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
Deep Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - December 4, 2025
Machine Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - December 4, 2025
WONR Agent in Langraph - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - December 4, 2025
JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures - freeCodeCamp
January 11, 2030 - December 4, 2025
Deep Learning Specialization
January 11, 2030 - December 14, 2025
Machine Learning Specialization
January 11, 2030 - December 14, 2025
WONR Agent in LangGraph
January 11, 2030 - December 14, 2025
AI Agents in LangGraph
January 11, 2030 - December 14, 2025
Long-Term Agentic Memory with LangGraph
January 11, 2030 - December 14, 2025
Knowledge Graphs for RAG
January 11, 2030 - December 14, 2025
JavaScript Algorithms & Data Structures
January 11, 2030 - December 14, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Education, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics, Other, Telecommunications