IBM watsonx Engineer • U.S. State Dept Fellow • Future CAIO
Building from Dakhla to global scale. Where others see infrastructure gaps, I architect intelligent systems.
I was born in Dakhla — where the Sahara meets the Atlantic, far from any accelerator or tech campus. In 2026, the U.S. Department of State selected me as an America 250 Fellow. Before that, I led ORBIT on IBM watsonx at an international hackathon. Before that, I founded a cooperative and applied AI to transform it.
What Dakhla taught me was clarity. When you build without a tech ecosystem around you, you learn to see the architecture underneath everything. Gaps are not absences — they are coordinates. I treat them that way.
Africa's 1.5 billion people are not underserved because of a lack of intelligence. They are underserved because the systems were not designed for them. I design the systems.
IBM watsonx Engineer, U.S. State Department Fellow, and founder of AI ventures at the intersection of language, economy, and intelligent infrastructure. My work spans agentic AI systems, cooperative digital transformation, and sovereign AI for emerging markets.
Connect on LinkedIn →Not demos. Not prototypes. Platforms architected at the intersection of AI, economy, and language — designed for continental and global scale.
A multi-agent AI system on IBM watsonx Orchestrate enabling intelligent autonomous workflow management. LLM-based agents with tool use, reasoning chains, and multi-step task automation — built for enterprise and institutional contexts in emerging markets.
Most enterprise AI in Africa is outsourced and fragile. ORBIT is infrastructure built from inside the continent, by someone who understands what the systems need to do.
Transforms Morocco's traditional craft sector into a globally connected AI-native marketplace. Voice-to-listing AI, intelligent pricing, and multilingual product generation give 2.4M artisans access to international buyers without language or technology barriers.
Morocco's artisan economy is one of Africa's largest — and nearly invisible to global markets. Artisia is the infrastructure layer that changes that permanently.
Morocco's first AI-transformed natural cosmetics cooperative. AI pricing intelligence, customer segmentation, multilingual catalogs, and digital market access — turning a women-led cooperative into a data-driven, export-ready enterprise.
Elite Yassmin proves AI-driven transformation is replicable at cooperative scale — the template Africa's 20,000+ cooperatives need.
The first AI assistant purpose-built for Darija — the spoken Arabic dialect of 35 million Moroccans. Mainstream AI treats Darija as noise. DarijaBot treats it as signal. Closing the AI language gap that excludes an entire population from the intelligence revolution.
Language is the first gate of exclusion in AI. DarijaBot removes that gate — and creates the blueprint for underrepresented languages globally.
A WhatsApp-native AI assistant for Morocco's 20,000+ cooperative managers. Regulatory guidance, pricing intelligence, export documentation, and financial analytics — entirely in Arabic and French. Enterprise-grade AI at the grassroots economic layer.
Morocco's cooperative sector manages billions in GDP with almost zero AI tools designed for it. CoopAI fills that gap at scale — in the language it actually operates in.
The cooperative economy — 3 million cooperatives, 1.2 billion workers, $3 trillion annually — operates without a single AI system designed for its governance structure, local languages, or informal-market context. TANIT builds that infrastructure from the inside: a multilingual, WhatsApp-native AI stack giving cooperative managers pricing intelligence, regulatory navigation, and market access tools as shared public infrastructure. Owned by the networks it serves, not extracted from them. Built by a founder who ran a cooperative before she built the AI.
The AI transition is being designed for corporations. Cooperatives represent more workers than any other organisational form on Earth — and they are invisible to every AI platform in existence. TANIT makes them visible, on their own terms.
Institutional recognition from government, global technology, and international development organisations.
Selected as a U.S. State Department Fellow through the America 250 programme — designating high-potential emerging leaders in global innovation and strategic technology. One of a small cohort from the MENA region.
Certified specialist in IBM watsonx enterprise AI. Led ORBIT at the IBM Dev Day AI Demystified Hackathon — implementing multi-agent reasoning pipelines and enterprise workflow orchestration.
State-level national recognition for Link Artisanal Dakhla — an AI-powered artisan market access programme serving craftspeople in Morocco's southern Atlantic region.
National government recognition for innovation, entrepreneurship, and community impact — a rare distinction for a builder operating from Morocco's southern region, far from any capital city.
60+ real-world engineering projects and 85+ certifications across AI systems, fullstack development (React, Next.js, Node.js, NestJS), cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity. Ongoing intensive programme.
Ranked in the top 20 nationally in Morocco's Digital Skills Cup, IT Security and Cybersecurity category. One of the few engineers from Morocco's southern region to compete at national level.
IBM watsonx Engineer · AI Strategy Architect · U.S. State Department Fellow · Venture Builder · Cooperative Leader. Available for global AI strategy roles, fellowships, research partnerships, and advisory engagements.
Open to global AI strategy roles, fellowships, research collaborations, advisory engagements, and co-building.