Youssef Ghanem

AI developer at IBM

Experience

IBM

Aug 2025 – now

AI developer, Cairo

Enterprise data strategy for a US-listed biopharma company (2026 – now). Part of the IBM team defining the data strategy for the company's Snowflake data and analytics platform: architecture and operating model, governance and quality, security and compliance, AI readiness, and the roadmap to get there, plus material that explains the strategy to business and IT teams.

Multi-agent testing platform for a major North American airline (Mar – Sep 2026). I built a platform where AI agents write the tests for a user story, run them in parallel and suggest fixes for the ones that fail. The goal is faster software delivery, with AI agents automating part of the development workflow and a human in the loop. It connects to the QA team's GitHub, Jira, BrowserStack and Maestro through MCP servers and APIs, and runs on Claude through AWS Bedrock.

AI workflow tools for a major Canadian bank (Aug 2025 – Mar 2026). I built agentic tools that help the bank's IT staff with API development, legacy data migrations and making sense of old code. I also led the redesign of an AI tool that drafts statements of work for project managers serving the bank and other Canadian clients, with a new React and TypeScript interface and a separate FastAPI back end. I added features users asked for and aligned the tool with IBM's Security and Privacy by Design requirements.

Hitachi Energy

Jun – Sep 2025

Sales and marketing intern, Dubai

In the Grid Automation business, on projects across the Middle East and Africa, I supported teams in sales operations, supply chain, systems engineering and service operations. I built Power BI dashboards for sales mix and current, target and forecast revenue, mapped the procurement process in SAP from supplier onboarding to quality issues, tested AI models in Azure to speed up tender proposals, and researched AI for monitoring software on a solar project.

Hitachi Cybersecurity

May – Aug 2024

Sales and marketing intern, Blainville, Quebec

I analysed enterprise RFPs to shape the go-to-market strategy, worked with product and marketing on the value proposition, and made marketing materials and case studies that North American sales teams used with government, banking, healthcare and IT clients, supporting a pipeline of more than $10M.