I’m Ahmed Farah, a Data & Software Architect focused on building end-to-end data and ML/NLP systems that turn raw inputs into production-ready products. Over the years, I’ve designed ingestion and transformation pipelines in Python, fine-tuned speech and language models for real corpora, and built semantic search and recommendation experiences on top of PostgreSQL (pgvector) and Elasticsearch. I also enjoy engineering the whole platform around the models—APIs, databases, scalable microservices, and self-hosted inference—while improving data quality with automated validation and dataset versioning. Currently, I’m developing a Tunisian dialect speech platform, creating training-ready audio datasets, fine-tuning voice models, and deploying quality gates that ensure reliable outcomes for downstream applications.…

ahmed farah

I’m Ahmed Farah, a Data & Software Architect focused on building end-to-end data and ML/NLP systems that turn raw inputs into production-ready products. Over the years, I’ve designed ingestion and transformation pipelines in Python, fine-tuned speech and language models for real corpora, and built semantic search and recommendation experiences on top of PostgreSQL (pgvector) and Elasticsearch. I also enjoy engineering the whole platform around the models—APIs, databases, scalable microservices, and self-hosted inference—while improving data quality with automated validation and dataset versioning. Currently, I’m developing a Tunisian dialect speech platform, creating training-ready audio datasets, fine-tuning voice models, and deploying quality gates that ensure reliable outcomes for downstream applications.…

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I’m Ahmed Farah, a Data & Software Architect focused on building end-to-end data and ML/NLP systems that turn raw inputs into production-ready products. Over the years, I’ve designed ingestion and transformation pipelines in Python, fine-tuned speech and language models for real corpora, and built semantic search and recommendation experiences on top of PostgreSQL (pgvector) and Elasticsearch.

I also enjoy engineering the whole platform around the models—APIs, databases, scalable microservices, and self-hosted inference—while improving data quality with automated validation and dataset versioning. Currently, I’m developing a Tunisian dialect speech platform, creating training-ready audio datasets, fine-tuning voice models, and deploying quality gates that ensure reliable outcomes for downstream applications.

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French
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Arabic
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English
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Work Experience

Senior Full Stack Developer at MINT (United Kingdom, remote)
June 1, 2025 - Present
Founding engineer (one of two developers) who built the platform from scratch, owning authentication, payments, the transaction engine, account management, and prediction markets. Delivered the end-to-end product experience as part of a remote team.
Semantic Film Discovery Engine Builder (Mindflix) at Mindflix (mindflix.club)
January 1, 2025 - Present
Built a semantic natural-language film discovery engine where an LLM decomposes free text into discrete topics, embeds them, and performs semantic vector search (PostgreSQL + pgvector) against a film catalog. Resolved matched candidates to real titles using Elasticsearch fuzzy name matching with Kibana-assisted tuning, and enriched results through the IMDb API for metadata and cover art display time. Added a collaborative-filtering recommender alongside vector search, running inference on self-hosted models on a Linux VPS.
Founding Engineer (one of two developers) at MINT (United Kingdom, remote)
January 1, 2025 - Present
Helped build an entire fintech-style platform from scratch, owning parts of the product including authentication, payments, transaction engine, account management, and prediction markets.
Senior Full Stack Developer at MINDfliX
January 1, 2025 - Present
Contributed to building a semantic film discovery and retrieval system that uses LLM topic decomposition and vector semantic search on PostgreSQL/pgvector, then title matching and enrichment using Elasticsearch and IMDb API. Implemented recommendation features alongside semantic retrieval, with self-hosted inference on a Linux VPS, and delivered front/back integration.
Data & Software Architect at AFDev
January 1, 2025 - Present
Designed the full software architecture for a Tunisian-dialects speech platform (web recording interface, backend services, and PostgreSQL schema/object storage for a growing audio corpus). Built ingestion and transformation pipelines in Python to produce training-ready datasets: silence/noise trimming, re-sampling and loudness normalization, transcript alignment, and versioned dataset builds using pandas/NumPy and librosa/torch-audio. Fine-tuned existing Arabic voice models (VITS TTS, PyTorch/Hugging Face) to produce an authentic Tunisian voice layer. Implemented automated quality gating scoring (signal-to-noise, voice activity, and near-duplicate similarity) to filter out white noise and fabricated submissions. Scaled corpus growth to 2,000+ validated clips across 24 speakers, using gamified weekly recording tournaments with per-recording scoring. Also built a semantic film discovery engine: LLM decomposes free text into topics, embeddings are searched with PostgreSQL + pgvector, can
Senior Back-End Developer at Solid Lift Parts Inc
October 1, 2024 - June 1, 2025
Owned the data layer and backend of a B2B marketplace covering 2M+ products with variants and thousands of daily transactions. Designed microservices and a monorepo architecture, and optimized high-volume MySQL queries and data pipelines to sustain scaling.
Senior Backend Developer at Solid Lift Parts Inc
October 1, 2024 - June 1, 2025
Owned the data layer and backend for a B2B marketplace covering 2M+ products with variants and thousands of daily transactions, including catalog, pricing, orders, and inventory. Designed microservices plus a monorepo architecture, and optimized high-volume MySQL queries and data pipelines to sustain throughput at scale.
Senior Front-End Developer at Natixis Bank
November 1, 2023 - October 1, 2024
Maintained and extended enterprise insurance software in Angular 14 within a regulated banking environment, following the bank’s review and release governance process.
Lead Full Stack Developer at Expertify
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2025
Worked as a Lead Full Stack Developer (part-time from 2024) supporting enterprise product development in a team context.
Full Stack Developer at IWCi
January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2023
Delivered full stack features and improvements as part of software development assignments.
Instructor & Lead Full Stack Developer at Wereact
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2022
Provided instruction and led full stack development activities.
Full Stack Web Developer at Opus Lab
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2021
Developed and supported web applications and features.
Lead Full Stack Developer (and earlier roles) at Expertify / IWC / Wereact / Opus Lab / Orenda Junior Enterprise
January 1, 2018 - October 1, 2023
Led full-stack development in multiple roles across web and enterprise projects, including instruction/training responsibilities and earlier project leadership/management. Worked from Tunis and Manouba contexts on delivering full-stack features and leading development efforts.
Project Manager & Lead Developer at Orenda Junior Enterprise
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2021
Managed projects and led junior enterprise development activities.

Education

MSc Data Science at ISAMM, University of Manouba
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2022
BS Computer Science & Multimedia at ISAMM, University of Manouba
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2021
MSc Data Science at ISAMM, University of Manouba
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2022
BS Computer Science & Multimedia at ISAMM, University of Manouba
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2021

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Education, Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Computers & Electronics, Professional Services