Ola El-Shiekh

Lead AI trainer & AI Engineer — Highly accomplished Senior AI Engineer and technical leader with over seven years of experience designing, developing, and deploying scalable AI and data-driven solutions. Proven ability to lead and mentor cross-functional teams, manage end-to-end project lifecycles, and collaborate directly with clients and key stakeholders. Brings strong expertise in Big Data and analytics—including data preparation, pipeline development, SQL, data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, model evaluation, and visualization—combined with hands-on experience across the complete Large Language Model lifecycle, from Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) implementation to GPU-optimized inference. Successfully contributed to high-impact government-sector AI initiatives involving SDAIA in Saudi Arabia and SatrtAD in UAE, while also designing and delivering professional training programs in data analytics and artificial intelligence.