About Me

Mazen Alotaibi

AI Staff Engineer @ DEEP.SA | Cursor Ambassador | Ex-Senior ML Engineer @ Malaa | M.Sc. in AI, B.Sc. in CS from Oregon State University. Building intelligent systems and bridging research to production.

6+

Years in AI

3

Publications

5

Certifications

5/19

Goals Achieved

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Experience

My professional journey

Jun 2025 - Present

AI Staff Engineer

DEEP.SA

Leading AI initiatives at a Saudi AI startup focused on technology and internet solutions.

AI Systems Engineering Leadership
May 2025 - Present

Cursor Ambassador

Anysphere

Advocating for AI-powered development tools and helping developers discover the future of coding.

Developer Advocacy AI Tools
Dec 2025 - Present

Member

DAL | دال

Non-profit association supported by Misk Foundation & SDAIA, empowering data science and AI enthusiasts through workshops, datathons, and job shadowing at major tech companies. Focused on Vision 2030 digital transformation.

Misk Foundation SDAIA Vision 2030
May 2023 - May 2025

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Malaa Technologies

Improved ML systems for Personal Finance Management, built Data Infra for internal auditing, and implemented backend features at this Saudi FinTech startup.

ML Systems Data Infra FinTech
Oct 2022 - May 2023

Faculty Research Assistant - ML Engineer

Oregon State University

Core member of Machine Common Sense (MCS) challenge team. Helped achieve 1st place in majority of tracks against Berkeley and MIT. Built two-stage tracker combining appearance and motion cues.

DARPA MCS Object Tracking 1st Place
Sep 2020 - Aug 2022

Graduate Teaching Research Assistant

Oregon State University

Contributed to DARPA's Machine Common Sense challenge. Built tracker with Online Tracker, Appearance Matching, and Reasoning Agent modules. TA for Python, Databases, Algorithms, Networking, and Graph Theory courses.

Research Teaching VOE Detection
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020

Data Scientist

CGRB - Oregon State University

Built image labeling tool (jQuery/NodeJS) improving performance 10x. Designed ML pipeline to auto-label 100K+ bird sound samples using HMM, FFT, and K-means clustering.

Data Pipelines Audio ML Bioinformatics
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019

Lead GPU Computational Researcher

CGRB - Oregon State University

Developed Tech Data AI Demo presented at IBM Think 2019 (sponsored by IBM, NVIDIA, OpenPower). Contributed to DL projects: Owl Sounds, Plankton, and Seeds Classification.

GPU Computing Deep Learning IBM Think 2019

Education

Academic background

M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence

Oregon State University

Supervised by Dr. Fuxin Li at Deep Machine Vision (DMV). Research focus on object tracking and anomaly detection.

2020 - 2022

B.Sc. Computer Science (AI)

Oregon State University

Minor in Actuarial Science. VP of OSU ML/AI Club (2017-2019). Lead GPU Computational Researcher at CGRB.

2015 - 2019

Certifications & Awards

Credentials and achievements

PyTorch Ambassador Award

The Linux Foundation / PyTorch

Oct 2023

Mastering LLMs For Developers & Data Scientists

Maven

Jun 2024

Full Stack Deep Learning

Full Stack Deep Learning

Oct 2022

Deep Learning Specialization

Coursera / DeepLearning.AI

Jan 2020

TensorFlow Developer

Coursera / DeepLearning.AI

Aug 2019

Publications

Research papers and contributions

Masader Plus: A New Interface for Exploring +500 Arabic NLP Datasets

arXiv 2022

Web interface for browsing Arabic NLP datasets with data exploration, filtration, and API access.

View paper

Discriminative Appearance Modeling with Multi-track Pooling for Real-time Multi-object Tracking

arXiv 2021

Novel multi-track pooling module for discriminative appearance modeling in online tracking.

View paper

Leveraging System Architecture to Optimize DL/AI-based Processing of Massive Data Sets

IBM Think 2019 2019

Evaluation of GPU architectures for processing massive audio, video, and DNA sequence data.

View paper

Skills

Technical expertise

Programming
Python, JavaScript, Bash, C/C++, Julia
Data
NumPy, Pandas, SQL, NoSQL, ClickHouse, Kafka
Machine Learning
PyTorch, HuggingFace, scikit-learn, JAX, TensorFlow
MLOps
MLFlow, Docker, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Kubernetes
Web
Flask, FastAPI, Node.js, Express.js, React

See my full tech stack for tools and workflows.

Life Goals

Things I want to achieve

Inspired by Chip Huyen's "List 100". A collection of things I want to do before I die.

Live in another country (US)
Get an affiliation on Twitch
Become one of the authors of a paper at a top-tier conference
Get a Masters Degree
Publish a Python package
Become the first author of a paper at a top-tier conference
Publish more than 25 posts
Publish an NPM package
Get a PhD Degree
Work as a scientist in any of the FAANG companies
Live in a different country for over 2 years (other than US)
Be fluent in another language
Teach a course
Teach a graduate-level course
Write a book
Get a patent
Start a company
Start a non-profit organization
Program/write every day for a year

5 of 19 goals achieved

Let's Connect

Whether you have a question, want to collaborate, or just want to say hi - I'd love to hear from you.

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