Ahmed Marzouk - Head of Data Department

Q: Where is Ahmed based?

Ahmed is based in Hamburg, Germany .

Q: What languages does Ahmed speak?

Ahmed speaks the following languages: Arabic (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Advanced), German (Intermediate) .

Q: How many years of experience does Ahmed have?

Ahmed has at least 16 years of experience. During this time, Ahmed has worked in at least 9 different roles and for 10 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 5 months . Note that Ahmed may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Ahmed's latest experience?

Ahmed's most recent position is Head of Data Department at Fotograf Gmbh .

Q: What companies has Ahmed worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Ahmed has worked for Fotograf Gmbh , Likeminded Gmbh , and Visable Gmbh .

Q: Which industries is Ahmed most experienced in?

Ahmed is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT) , Media, Entertainment and Publishing , and Advertising . Ahmed also has some experience in Professional Services , Fashion and Apparel , and Retail .

Q: Which business areas is Ahmed most experienced in?

Ahmed is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT) , Business Intelligence , and Product Development . Ahmed also has some experience in Strategy and Planning , Research and Development (R&D) , and Quality Assurance (QA) .

Q: Which industries has Ahmed worked in recently?

Ahmed has recently worked in industries like Media, Entertainment and Publishing , Information Technology (IT) , and Professional Services .

Q: Which business areas has Ahmed worked in recently?

Ahmed has recently worked in business areas like Business Intelligence , Strategy and Planning , and Information Technology (IT) .

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Hamburg, Germany

Experience

Sep 2022 - Present

3 years 6 months

Berlin, Germany

Head of Data Department

Fotograf Gmbh

Building teams of data people - BI Analysts, Data Scientists, Data Engineers
Defining data strategy across all business units to support short, mid & long-term business goals
Collaborating with the product leads & management & heads of departments to provide data support
Defining budget to make everything happen
Aligning the data teams goals with company vision, strategy & objectives
Responsible for the data governance as well as for the strategic development planning
Defining and developing joint OKRs
Reporting directly to the CTO & CEO

May 2022 - Aug 2022

4 months

Berlin, Germany

Head of Data/Consultant

Likeminded Gmbh

Managing a team of data people - Product Manager, Data Scientists, Data Engineers
Defining data strategy across all business units to support business goals
Collaborating with the investors & management & stakeholders to provide data support
Writing proposals for funds, successfully received fund from Investitionsbank Berlin - IBB for the ProFit Project (Data & Machine learning project)
Successfully completed the ProFit Project
Reporting directly to the CTO

Aug 2019 - Apr 2022

2 years 9 months

Hamburg, Germany

Team Lead Deep Learning Scientist/Data Scientist

Visable Gmbh

Analyzed company business model to uncover scalable opportunities for machine learning
Strategically developed the company product development pipeline
Researched and prototyped state-of-the-art deep learning models to quickly test the technical feasibility of specific use cases
Supervised & managed a team of data people - BI analysts, Data Scientists, Data Engineers
Defined data strategy across all business units to support short, mid & term business goals
Tools: Tensorflow/Serving, Keras, Spark, BERT, sensegram, AWS
Projects at Visable: Search Monetization, Bot Detection

Nov 2018 - Aug 2019

10 months

Hamburg, Germany

Lead Deep Learning Scientist/Data Scientist

Emetriq Gmbh

Strategically developed the company's deep learning pipelines
Researched and built real-time scalable deep learning based services for target advertisements
Developed and optimized systems for first-price and second-price bidding auctions
Utilized HDFS to efficiently manage and process millions of requests daily
Supervised and guided data engineers aspiring to learn machine learning
Analyzed company business model to uncover scalable opportunities for machine learning
Tools: Tensorflow/Serving, Keras, Spark, AWS

Feb 2017 - Oct 2018

1 year 9 months

Hamburg, Germany

Machine Learning Scientist/Data Scientist

Aboutyou Gmbh

Built a real time scalable deep learning fashion recommendation engine that uses content-based approach
Neural network model building and parameter optimization
Built unsupervised-image-retrieval models to utilize un-labelled datasets
Developed analytical machine learning pipeline to compare embeddings extracted by generative models vs discriminative models to identify best performing models
Developed and maintained a graph-based decision support system that allows for customer re-marketing
Customers shopping behavior analysis, improving data labeling, building large and efficient data processing pipelines
Tools: Tensorflow/Serving, Keras, Kubernetes, OpenCV, Python, NoSQL, AWS, GAN, discriminative models; Hadoop, Pyspark, Scala, Graph Theory, Markov Chain

Sep 2015 - Jan 2017

1 year 5 months

Hamburg, Germany

Data Scientist / Lead Software Developer

HansaPlus

Responsible for improving text search using state of art NLP and text mining techniques
Tools: NLTK, w2vec, Gensim, NLP, Sklearn
Responsible for architectural design and development of core features of iOS app to interact with the SharePoint 2013 BSS internal web application (Blue Planet) such as streaming newsfeed handling, documents access and integration with Airwatch MDM
Tools: Xamarin/C#, Sharepoint 2013, Airwatch SDK, Objective-C, REST, JavaScript

Feb 2015 - Sep 2015

8 months

Hamburg, Germany

Machine Learning Scientist/Data Scientist

Applied Software Technology Dept., Universitat Hamburg

Designed and developed MusesWindows Client (MWC) software sensors that allowed for Windows side data acquisition
Researched machine learning models to utilize with the collected sensory data
Tools: VStudio/C#, pinvoke

Feb 2013 - Aug 2014

1 year 7 months

Egypt

Lead Software Developer

CLW for Software outsourcing

Software development of various software projects at CLW
Improved CLW applications performance and bug fixing strategies of legacy code
Tools: Java/Android SDK, VStudio/C#.Net, MSSQL, REST, JavaScript

Jan 2012 - Dec 2012

1 year

Cairo, Egypt

R&D Engineer

BDO-Esnad Outsourcing

Developed an intranet web-based application to allow the company internal departments to generate crystal reports based on the user privilege and hierarchy
The application efficiently increased the production time of all departments dependent on the frequent usage of crystal reports and reduced the overhead workflow of the IT department
Tools: VBScript, MSSQL server, Asp.net, C#

Mar 2011 - Dec 2011

10 months

Cairo, Egypt

Software Developer

BDO-Esnad Outsourcing

Developed an intranet web-based application to allow the company internal departments to generate crystal reports based on the user privilege and hierarchy
The application efficiently increased the production time of all departments dependent on the frequent usage of crystal reports and reduced the overhead workflow of the IT department
Tools: VBScript, MSSQL server, Asp.net, C#

Oct 2009 - Feb 2011

1 year 5 months

Egypt

Software Developer

MTech for Advertising & Marketing

Developing custom components for the company solutions, tasks included testing as well as documenting
Developed web pages that were fully integrated with company applications
Tools: PHP

Industries Experience

See where this freelancer has spent most of their professional time. Longer bars indicate deeper hands-on experience, while shorter ones reflect targeted or project-based work.

Experienced in Information Technology (7 years), Media and Entertainment (3.5 years), Professional Services (2 years), Advertising (2 years), Fashion (1.5 years), and Retail (1.5 years).

Information Technology

Media and Entertainment

Professional Services

Advertising

Fashion

Retail

Business Areas Experience

The graph below provides a cumulative view of the freelancer's experience across multiple business areas, calculated from completed and active engagements. It highlights the areas where the freelancer has most frequently contributed to planning, execution, and delivery of business outcomes.

Experienced in Information Technology (12.5 years), Business Intelligence (10.5 years), Product Development (10 years), Strategy (6.5 years), Research and Development (2.5 years), and Quality Assurance (1.5 years).

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Product Development

Strategy

Research and Development

Quality Assurance

Skills

Big Data Eco System: Mapreduce, Hive, Spark, Mysql
Vcs: Svn, Git
Cloud Services: Aws
Computer Languages: Python, Java/scala, C#, C/c++, Javascript
Robotics Frameworks: Naoqi, Ros
Robotics Hardware: Turtlebot, Husky, Nao
Data Analytics Tools: Matlab, R
Deep Learning Frameworks: Tensorflow, Tf-serving, Keras
Nosql Db: Redis, Mongodb
Software Engineering: Agile/scrum
Containerization: Kubernetes, Docker
Editors: Sublime

Languages

Arabic

Native

English

Advanced

Spanish

Advanced

German

Intermediate

Education

Oct 2014 - Sep 2018

University of Hamburg, Department of Computer Science

Master of Science, Intelligent Adaptive Systems · Intelligent Adaptive Systems · Hamburg, Germany

Ain Shams University

Bachelor of Computer Science · Computer Science · Cairo, Egypt

Profile

Created

February 2026

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Where is Ahmed based?

Ahmed is based in Hamburg, Germany.

What languages does Ahmed speak?

Ahmed speaks the following languages: Arabic (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Advanced), German (Intermediate).

How many years of experience does Ahmed have?

Ahmed has at least 16 years of experience. During this time, Ahmed has worked in at least 9 different roles and for 10 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 5 months. Note that Ahmed may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Ahmed be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Ahmed would be well-suited for roles such as: Head of Data Department, Head of Data/Consultant, Team Lead Deep Learning Scientist/Data Scientist.

What is Ahmed's latest experience?

Ahmed's most recent position is Head of Data Department at Fotograf Gmbh.

What companies has Ahmed worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Ahmed has worked for Fotograf Gmbh, Likeminded Gmbh, and Visable Gmbh.

Which industries is Ahmed most experienced in?

Ahmed is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT), Media, Entertainment and Publishing, and Advertising. Ahmed also has some experience in Professional Services, Fashion and Apparel, and Retail.

Which business areas is Ahmed most experienced in?

Ahmed is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Business Intelligence, and Product Development. Ahmed also has some experience in Strategy and Planning, Research and Development (R&D), and Quality Assurance (QA).

Which industries has Ahmed worked in recently?

Ahmed has recently worked in industries like Media, Entertainment and Publishing, Information Technology (IT), and Professional Services.

Which business areas has Ahmed worked in recently?

Ahmed has recently worked in business areas like Business Intelligence, Strategy and Planning, and Information Technology (IT).

What is Ahmed's education?

Ahmed holds a Master in Intelligent Adaptive Systems from University of Hamburg, Department of Computer Science and a Bachelor in Computer Science from Ain Shams University.

What is the availability of Ahmed?

Ahmed is immediately available part-time for suitable projects.

What is the rate of Ahmed?

Ahmed's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.