Salim EL MARDI
Applied AI Engineer - LLMs, RAG & Agents
Salary / Daily rate
Casablanca, Morocco
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
Work experience
Contributor
Agno (Open Source)
Remote
– Recognized among Agno's top code contributors in March 2026. – Added GitLabTools and contributed ZeroEntropy reranking, semantic caching, and Claude output_config support.
Protocol & Reference Runtime Developer
Federated Agent Protocol (FAP)
Remote
– Built an alpha protocol and reference runtime for federated agent coordination without centralizing private data.
Research Assistant
Oracle
Jul 2025 - Oct 2025
4 months
Casablanca, Morocco
– Built data science agents for preprocessing, model training, and explainability workflows. – Improved agent planning and execution in Oracle's data science tooling ecosystem. – Contributed to open-source Wayflow by implementing ToolOutputWithArtifacts and authoring its design documentation.
Machine Learning Engineer Intern
Lyphon
Feb 2025 - Jun 2025
5 months
Casablanca, Morocco
– Designed, optimized, and deployed computer vision models for facial skin analysis. – Developed and deployed a LightFM recommendation engine for personalized medicament suggestions.
Research Volunteer
SDAS Research Group
Jul 2024 - Sep 2024
3 months
Ben Guerir, Morocco
– Researched emotion detection from EEG using signal processing and machine learning.
Education
School of Information Sciences
Engineering Curriculum, Data Science
– Coursework: Data Structures, Algorithms, Optimization, Graph Theory, Applied Mathematics.
Lycée Al Khansaa & Lycée Moulay Youssef
Classes Préparatoires, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science
– Intensive program focused on mathematical rigor, problem-solving, and algorithmic thinking.
Licenses & certifications
Initiation to Research: Academic Tools and Techniques
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Data Science and Machine Learning: Making Data-Driven Decisions
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