
Wady BENSALAH
Applied Scientist
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
AI Engineer with 9 years of expertise in machine learning, generative AI, and AWS cloud solutions. Delivered 70% cost reduction for 100+ analysts at Givaudan and built platforms serving 100k+ users. Specialized in RAG pipelines, agentic AI systems, and scalable ML deployment for enterprise clients.
Work experience
Technology Evangelist
Norrsken Barcelona
Oct 2024 - Present
1 year 9 months
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Active member in Europe'a largest hub for tech entrepreneurs and impact startups, spreading AI knowledge amongst entrepreneurs
AI Principal / Tech Lead
L'OrealFreelance
Jun 2025 - Dec 2025
7 months
Paris
Built Agentic workflows with RAG on top of multiple data sources and connectors (Confluence, Sharepoint, Postgresql). • Developed end to end data flows, MCPs, and APIs. • Designed and built robust and scalable data pipelines with an Event Driven architecture for data ingestion and processing. (RAG) • Managing the backend and infrastructure and closely collaborating with the front end team. Keywords: AI Agents, MCPs, Data Pipelines, Airflow, Python, Typescript, React, Event Driven, Pub/Sub, Eventarc, RAG, Pinecone
Applied Scientist
Glovo
Jan 2025 - Jun 2025
6 months
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Personalization - Recommendation & Ranking (Contextual Multi-Armed bandits, Recommendation systems, Causal inference, Attribution models) Lead a team focused on whole page personalization & content ranking to improve UX / CVR and Revenue. • Modeled user behavior and carousel performance and rolled out worldwide AB experiments with 3% increase in CVR and Rev. • Applied causal inference to model attribution and optimize filters ranking. Keywords: Multi-armed bandits, Scalable Recommendation systems, Data Modeling, Machine Learning, MLOps
AI Engineer, Technical Advisor
Incard
Jan 2025 - May 2025
5 months
London Area, United Kingdom
Led the design and development of Low latency AI Agents & MCPs - Typescript and Node.js. Advisor to the CEO on product and AI strategies
AI Engineer, Advisor
GTMfusion
Jan 2025 - May 2025
5 months
San Francisco Bay Area
Developed Langgraph Multi Agents for Ads management and optimization (Google Ads & LinkedIn Ads) Advised the founders on hiring, product roadmap, AI workflows design, technical choices and more
AI Engineer
ISDIN
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
4 months
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · Hybrid
Built an in-app Conversational Skin Care Shopping Assistant with some smart folks leveraging an Agentic design. Deployed in ISDIN mobile apps in ES, USA & LATAM
Founder & CEO
Project WFreelance
Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
2 years 8 months
Paris & London & Barcelona
Led a dynamic team in Paris, London, and Barcelona to deliver AI solutions for diverse industries. Drove impactful results for scale ups and CAC40 companies, with a focus on executing ML roadmaps and managing substantial budgets (€20M). Closed to build something.
Generative AI Engineer
Crédit Agricole CIB
Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
4 months
Paris, Île-de-France, France · Remote
Designed and developed Multimodal RAG pipelines with a particular focus on latency and PDF/PPTX documents with dense visual components
Generative AI Engineer
Givaudan
Sep 2023 - Aug 2024
1 year
Geneva, Switzerland
Pure impact. Decreased operational costs by 70% for 100+ business analysts with a Generative AI application using Agentic modular RAG for QA and workflows automation.
Founding Machine Learning Engineer
Datacy
Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
1 year 2 months
San Francisco Bay Area
Built the Online Consumer Behavior intelligence platform from the ground up serving 100k users and 20+ brands. ML/NLP, analytics, python, dbt, AWS ..
Data Scientist
Allianz Trade
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
5 months
Paris, Île-de-France, France · Hybrid
Veni vidi vici. Successfully developed and deployed Machine learning models on AWS (default probability and premium pricing) Outperforming baselines by 35% (F1 score and other business metrics) using 50% less features and faster, more interpretable models.
Data Scientist
Criteo
Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
2 years 2 months
Paris, Île-de-France, France
One of the best workplaces and cultures I’ve ever been part of so far. Worked on Large scale Machine Learning in Computational Advertising. Models research and development, product engineering and product analytics. Rolled out multiple new models for creative optimization which increased CTR, Landing Rate and Advertizer value by 5-10%
Quantitative Trader, Data Scientist
SESAMm
Nov 2018 - Jul 2020
1 year 9 months
Paris Area, France
Systematic trading strategies and portfolio optimization models for Tier 1 investment banks and institutional clients in France, UK, US, Japan, South Korea
Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SGCIB
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
1 year 8 months
Paris Area, France
Quantitative Trader
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
10 months
Paris Area, France
Rates desk (cash and derivatives). Improved PnL with optimized predictive models for the G10 bonds 5mn forward return and market impact
Machine Learning Quant
Mar 2017 - Dec 2017
10 months
Paris Area, France
High Frequency Trading Optimization. Minimized trade execution latency by 5 micro seconds by developing a smart order rooting strategy deployed for the cash equities block trades
Summer FX Data Scientist
Kantox
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
3 months
Barcelona Area, Spain
FX Rates
Rescue Ops Design Analyst
Airbus Group Inc.
Sep 2014 - Jul 2016
1 year 11 months
Lille Area, France
Optimization of rescue services interventions during natural catastrophes and in civil war zones
Investment Banking Summer Analyst
BNP Paribas
Apr 2015 - Oct 2015
7 months
Gouvernorat de Tunis, Tunisia
1st rotation: ALM 2nd rotation: M&A
Industrial Engineering Intern
Société Tunisienne de l'Electricité et du Gaz (STEG)
Jun 2014 - Aug 2014
3 months
Tunis Governorate, Tunisia
Project Manager Assistant
Education
Université Paris Cité
MSc
2017 - 2018
1 year 1 month
ENSAE Paris
MSc
2017 - 2018
1 year 1 month
Centrale Lille
MEng - Grande Ecole
2014 - 2017
3 years 1 month
Tunisia Polytechnic School
MEng
2013 - 2016
3 years 1 month
Classes Préparatoires Mont Fleury Tunis
French Prépa
2011 - 2013
2 years 1 month