El Amin Ouzzane

Building intelligent agents since 2008: first robots, then oil & gas, now enterprise AI. I lead AI that works in the real world, and I build guitars, circuits and instruments.

El Amin Ouzzane

Work

Eighteen years, one thread: systems that decide on their own, and that people can trust.

2024 – now · CGI, Montréal

AI Technical Director, Agentic AI

Sets the agentic AI direction for Greater Montréal and the Global Delivery Center. A multi-agent architecture review for a major Canadian bank cut the cost of a review by ~98%. Redesigned a predictive-maintenance rules engine for a global mining leader, from 10 minutes on 7 servers to seconds on one.

2019 – 2024 · AIQ, Abu Dhabi

Lead Data & ML Engineer → Lead Solutions Architect

One of the first 12 employees. Led 20 engineers and built the dataiq platform and its AIQFlow pipelines, the base for 25+ AI products. A drilling optimization programme worth ~$37M a year; well-image analysis from 3 months to minutes.

2014 – 2019 · Huawei

Solutions Architect

Migrated billing for 20M+ subscribers to a convergent platform, and designed the offers that ran on it.

2010 – 2014 · Telecom & embedded

Software Engineer

An SMS gateway at 1,000 messages a second, VoIP, an augmented-reality SDK, IoT trackers.

2008 · Robotics research

Multi-agent robotics

Autonomous agents controlling a mobile manipulator. MSc in Intelligent Agents (University of Bath), 7 IEEE papers.

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Lab

Things I build because I want them to exist.