Basem E.

Head of Cloud & AI

Regensburg, Germany

Experience

Mar 2024 - Sep 2025
1 year 7 months
Regensburg, Germany

Head of Cloud & AI

VxLabs GmbH

  • Led Cloud & Data Engineering organization, defining architecture strategy for next-generation data platforms.
  • Designed and delivered an automotive Fleet Data Management System including scalable ingestion pipelines, signal catalog management, and campaign processing workflows.
  • Built cloud-native microservices and streaming architectures supporting real-time vehicle data and AI-powered threat detection.
  • Established engineering standards for data quality, security, lineage, and governance in alignment with ISO/SAE 21434 and GDPR.
  • Managed engineering teams across data, backend, cloud, and AI functions, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality, production-ready solutions.
Feb 2022 - Jul 2024
2 years 6 months
Germany

Senior Consultant, Data Architecture

OSTHUS (PharmaLex)

  • Designed enterprise data architecture blueprints for global pharma clients.
  • Led data governance and metadata management initiatives improving data quality, lineage tracking, and compliance.
  • Developed scalable models enabling cross-system interoperability within highly regulated environments.
May 2019 - Jan 2022
2 years 9 months
Germany
Hybrid

Senior Hybrid Cloud Data Engineer

IBM Research & Development

  • Developed cloud-native data engineering pipelines using IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Watson, and Kubernetes.
  • Delivered large-scale ingestion, feature engineering, and analytics workflows for Fortune 500 deployments.
  • Built AI-driven ranking systems (Watson Power Ranking) and filed six patents in AI/MDM innovation.
Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
10 months
Munich, Germany

Lead Data Architect

CHECK24

  • Designed MDM architecture for a unified customer data platform.
  • Introduced event-driven data integration patterns and enhanced DWH scalability.
Feb 2017 - Jun 2018
1 year 5 months
Germany

Senior Engineer, Big Data Team Lead

AVL Software & Functions

  • Defined AVL global data strategy.
  • Led AVL global big data engineering team.
  • Created predictive diagnostics pipelines and ADAS data ingestion/storage solutions.
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
1 year 1 month
Egypt

Application Architect, Big Data

IBM

  • Led large-scale big data solutions for telecom, including real-time analytics for Etisalat UAE.
Oct 2013 - Dec 2015
2 years 3 months
Egypt

Senior Big Data Consultant

ITWORX

  • Established Big Data practice; delivered predictive models for Syngenta USA and social media analytics platforms.
Jan 2003 - Dec 2013
11 years
Egypt

BI/DWH Senior Analyst

Vodafone Egypt

  • 10+ years of telecom data architecture experience across billing, CRM, network analytics, and large-scale DWH ecosystems.
  • Supported billing/CRM integration, revenue assurance, and BI/DWH operations.
  • Built semantic ontology for customer profile data.

Workload Automation Specialist

Vodafone Egypt

  • Automated Vodafone Data Center workloads, enhancing operational efficiency.

Summary

AI & Data Science Consultant with 20+ years of experience delivering advanced analytics, machine learning, LLM-based solutions, and enterprise data platforms across telecom, healthcare, automotive, insurance, and life sciences. Specialized in AI-driven transformation, data science, model development, generative AI, governance, and integrating AI systems into enterprise environments. ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer & Lead Auditor with strong experience in AI governance and safe AI deployment.

  • AI & Data Science Leadership: Designing, developing, and deploying ML/LLM systems, predictive models, and data-driven solutions.
  • Data Science & ML Engineering: Feature engineering, model development, MLOps, monitoring, experimentation.
  • Generative AI & LLM Solutions: RAG, agentic systems, prompt engineering, vector databases, knowledge graphs.
  • Enterprise AI Architect: End-to-end AI lifecycle design, scalable data pipelines, cloud-native ML workflows.
  • Data Strategy & Governance: Metadata, data quality, lineage, AI policies, model governance, compliance.
  • Industry Impact: Delivered solutions for Vodafone, Etisalat, IBM, CHECK24, AVL, PharmaLex.
  • Research & Innovation: 6 granted IBM patents in AI, MDM, graph intelligence; IEEE-published research.

Languages

Arabic
Native
English
Advanced
German
Intermediate

Education

Oct 2011 - Jun 2015

Nile University

Master of Science, Computer Science · Computer Science · Egypt

Oct 1996 - Jun 2001

Mansoura University

Bachelor of Science, Electronics & Communication Engineering · Electronics & Communication Engineering · Egypt

Certifications & licenses

Design Thinking

ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Auditor

PECB

ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer

PECB

ITIL Foundation

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