Youssef Ghanem

AI developer at IBM

Now

Last updated November 2026

Work

At IBM, on the modernization pilot for an enterprise document retrieval system, built for AI agents connecting over MCP.

Building

Browser and mobile video games. Most recently I released Football Career Sim ↗.

Learning / reading

Reading Carbon Democracy by Timothy Mitchell, on how the shift from coal to oil shaped what kind of democracy became possible.

Otherwise

Applying to master's programs. The areas I'm curious about: AI agents and systems, human-computer interaction, and cognitive and decision science.

This is a now page ↗, a snapshot of what I'm focused on at this point in my life.