I work with founders and companies to design, build and launch
software products. My work spans product architecture,
full-stack engineering, infrastructure, AI and data systems.
Contact me at
youssef@blankresearch.com
or read my resume in pdf format.
I owned the production application layer of an AI fleet-management platform used by hundreds of European companies, 40+ APIs and the workflows behind them. Document pipelines that turn fleet paperwork into structured data, agentic optimization, cost analysis, financial anomaly detection, authorization, and the frontend that surfaces it.
React, Next.js, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS, LLM APIs, RAG, pgvector, AI agents, evaluation pipelines.
Founding engineer. Took the platform from nothing to production and owned it there: architecture, databases, infrastructure, deployment, observability. I designed and built the real-time auction engine, the AI recommendation system and the payment infrastructure, together they carry ~$100M in transactions a month.
Next.js, React, Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS, PyTorch, embeddings, collaborative filtering, vector similarity search, transformer/LLM embeddings, ranking models and recommendation pipelines.
Founding engineer. Rebuilt the product into a consumer social platform and owned V2 end to end. The social layer (real-time messaging, posts, comments, likes, profiles, book tracking, discovery) and the data platform underneath it: 150M+ books aggregated, normalized and indexed from multiple sources, feeding a recommendation pipeline that turned reading activity into personalized discovery.
Next.js, React, Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS, WebSockets, web scraping, ETL, search indexing, recommendation systems, data pipelines and CI/CD.
