Tarek’s diverse experiences stem from a grounded background in Machine Learning research to an elaborately arrayed industry experience in Fintech
Regarded as a jack of all trades, he has previously utilised his ML skillset in various NLP applications, before a gradual shift towards distributed systems and data engineering in the banking industry.
Slowly but surely, his appetite translated into a fresh move towards tech leadership, building teams from the bottom up in the areas of investment and payments processing.
Currently based in Amsterdam, Tarek is currently running the realtime business monitoring team at Klarna, digging deeper into the topics streaming processing and serverless computing.
During his free time, he likes to fiddle around with analog synthesizers, delve into the intricacies of filter coffee, or discover the wonders of street photography.