About Abdellahi El-Moustapha

AI engineer working across agents, RAG, and product delivery. Based in Paris and working as an AI engineer at NORMA DEV, with a focus on agent systems, retrieval, evaluation, and practical AI infrastructure.

I build AI agents, RAG applications, evaluation workflows, and LLM-backed products. The work is mostly hands-on: choosing models, wiring tools, testing behavior, and shipping interfaces people can actually use.

Open to serious AI builds, consulting work, collaborations, and technical talks.

Non-technical and community background

Beyond engineering, Abdellahi builds communities, organizes events and conferences, represents Mauritania internationally, and has completed leadership and entrepreneurship programs.

Extra-curricular activities and community leadership

  • Nouakchott AI Build — Founder & President (05/2026 - Present). Founded and lead the largest tech event in Mauritania, bringing builders, founders, students, and the national tech ecosystem around AI, hackathons, and product innovation. nouakchottaibuild.tech
  • Paris AI Community — Founder & Community Manager (2024 - Present). Founded and manage an AI community in Paris with 200+ members. Organize meetups, workshops, and hackathons. parisaicommunity.tech
  • ESP Data Club (CLEF-AUF Member) — Founder (2021). Founded the first student-led AI and data science community in Mauritania. esp-data-club.com
  • Mauritanian AI Community (RIM AI) — Executive Board Member (01/2024 - Present). Contributes to AI policy discussions and educational initiatives in Mauritania; advocates for responsible AI development. rim-ai.com
  • Global AI Hub — Community Lead (04/2022 - Present). Lead community engagement for a global AI network; coordinate international collaborations and events. globalaihub.com

Selected achievements, leadership, and recognition

  • World Bank Group Youth Summit 2024 Delegate — Selected delegate on sustainable development and AI for development goals.
  • I2COMSAPP-2024 organizer — Key organizer for the first major international AI conference in Mauritania.
  • One Million Leaders (OML-MENA-2024) Fellow — Fellow focused on AI entrepreneurship and innovation in the MENA region.
  • ESP Data Challenge 2023 Best Notebook Prize Winner.
  • Harvard Aspire Leadership 2023 Alumnus — Leadership development with strategic thinking and cross-cultural management in tech.
  • B Global Talent Business Challenge Candidate 2023 — Represented Mauritania in Spain.
  • AfriCanarias Entrepreneurship Challenge Candidate 2022 — Represented Mauritania connecting African entrepreneurs with European markets.
  • Mauritanian Engineering Community Forum 2022 Organizer.
  • YOUNGA Summit 2022 Delegate.
  • YOUTEX Future Leaders 2022 Participant.
  • GDSC-ISCAE (2021-2022) Core Team Member.
  • African Debate Championship 2021 Candidate — Represented Mauritania on politics, economics, and international relations.

Global exposure

  • Stanford & Silicon Valley Learning Trip focused on AI research and agent development practices.
  • UC Berkeley AI Product Engineering Certification — 2-week intensive on AI product design, agent architecture, and UX.
  • Multiple hackathon wins and placements: 1st GDG Paris (2026), 1st Open Build Mistral Paris (2025), 2nd World Wild Web (2025), 3rd RAISE Summit (2026), Finalist Columbia University AI for Good NYC (2026).

Hackathons and competitions

  • 1st Place — Google Developer Group Paris (2026) — Dayflow.
  • 1st Place — Open Build Mistral Hackathon, Paris (2025) — VocaTinder.
  • 2nd Place — World Wild Web Hackathon (2025) — AceTrack AI.
  • 3rd Place — RAISE Summit Hackathon (2026) — Flashdeal / Sell Baby Sell track.
  • Finalist — Columbia University AI for Good, NYC (2026) — CareScript.

Education

  • Master of Data Science and AI — Aivancity School for Technology, Business and Society, Paris, France (2024 - 2026).
  • Engineering Diploma in Data Science — Higher Polytechnic School (ESP), Nouakchott, Mauritania (2021 - 2024).
  • Preparatory Classes for Engineering Schools — Institut Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles d'Ingénieurs, Nouakchott, Mauritania (2019 - 2021).

Work experience

  • AI Engineer at NORMA DEV, Paris (July 2025 - Present) — production AI agent systems, multi-agent orchestration, ReAct reasoning, LLM evaluation, search for autonomous agents, RAG evaluation.
  • Data Science Intern at Groupe Image et Concept, Paris (Oct 2024 - Jan 2025) — generative AI in creative workflows, video generation pipelines.
  • Data Engineer at Central Bank of Mauritania (Mar 2024 - Aug 2024) — automated data pipelines and Power BI dashboards; reporting from 5 days to 5 seconds.
  • Data Science Intern at DataTuring, Remote (May 2023 - Sep 2023) — predictive models for education with XGBoost, SHAP, and policy recommendations.

AI expertise focus

  • AI Agent Development — ReAct, ReWOO, LangGraph, CrewAI.
  • LLM Systems — RAG pipelines, fine-tuning, production inference.
  • AI Infrastructure — vector databases, agent evaluation, MLOps.