Farouk Abdallah

Co-Founder & CTO at ZELINQA — The Questioning Intelligence
AI Engineer | LLMs & AI Agents

Farouk Abdallah

Applied AI engineer specializing in LLMs, AI agents, and production-grade AI systems. I build scalable conversational AI platforms using LangGraph, RAG pipelines, and real-time voice systems. Background in reinforcement learning, computer vision (Edge AI), and distributed computing.

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Education

M2 Algorithmique et Modélisation à l'Interface des Sciences

Université Paris-Saclay | 2022 – 2023

Reinforcement Learning, Optimization, J2EE

Ingénieur / Master en Informatique

Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique - ESI | 2017 – 2022

Engineering, Deep Learning, Data Analysis

Experience

LLM Research Engineer

Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble | 2024 – Present

Development of LLMs in various domains, conversational agents, confidential patent contribution.

LangChain, LoRA, OVH, Qdrant, PostgreSQL, CopilotKit

Data Scientist

Assystem | 2023

Implementation of multi-level information extraction from CVs.

Document AI, Generative AI, LayoutLM, BERT

Edge AI Research Engineer

LAMIH CNRS | 2022

Optimization of lane detection algorithms for autonomous vehicles.

Self-driving cars, Edge and Cloud computing

Skills

Languages

R, Python, JavaScript, Java, C, C++

AI Frameworks

PyTorch, TensorFlow, MMCV, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Keras, WandB, OpenCV

LLM & Agents

Hugging Face, LangChain, LangGraph, Unsloth AI, Ollama, Qdrant, pgvector, CopilotKit, PEFT, Accelerate

Development

FastAPI, Flask, TorchServe, Docker, Git, Redis, Next.js, MinIO

Database

PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, SQLite

Cloud & Systems

AWS, OVH, Scaleway, Coolify, Linux, Bash

Contact

Let's work together

farouk@zelinqa.fr