Senior Software Engineer @ Founded in 2014, Beamery is the world’s most advanced Sourcing and Recruitment Marketing platform. We are on a mission to make recruitment better by empowering companies to treat candidates like customers, and focus on communication not process. Beamery provides cloud-based software that enables talent acquisition teams to source faster and more effectively, build talent pools and improve the candidate experience. Find out more at www.beamery.com From August 2015 to Present (5 months) London, United KingdomResearch Engineer @ From May 2015 to September 2015 (5 months) Associate Researcher @ I have been part of several projects that are on the cutting edge of Business Intelligence technologies where i was actively participating in development tasks using JavaScript, HANA XS Engine and SAP UI5. Moreover, i have applied parts of my PhD Research in the areas of Information Retrieval and Data Integration to enrich Business Intelligence. Highlights • UI/UX Lead for project remix • Lead Developer for the Semantic Enrichment of Enterprise Data project (SEED) • Developer and Front-end Lead for the Business Intelligence Graph project (BIG) • Integrating various Semantic Enrichment and Data Integration services into SAP systems, mainly SAP Lumira From May 2012 to May 2015 (3 years 1 month) Founder @ Founder and CTO of SNARC, a startup that aims at reinventing content discovery in the web by offering a wide set of tools for consumers and publishers. SNARC has won the first award at the AI Mashup Challenge at European Semantic Web Conference 2013 and was a finalist in the European Innovation Academy 2014 From July 2014 to December 2014 (6 months) Participant @ European Innovation Academy is the most innovative technology entrepreneurship summer program taking place in Europe engaging entrepreneurial minded students from all disciplines. It is an extreme three weeks accelerator for developing entrepreneurial studies, during this period i have gained skills in: • Customer Development: Customer persona, customer validation, distribution channels, customer interaction • Technology Entrepreneurship: Protecting intellectual property, building and presenting the perfect pitch, • Business Model Design: Opportunity assessment, team formation, lean canvas model, risk assessment, defining value proposition, identify revenue streams and financial projections • User Experience Design: Paper prototyping, prototype evaluation From July 2014 to July 2014 (1 month) Nice Area, FranceDeveloper (Intern) - Business Intelligence Research Practice @ During my internship,i have worked on project RUBIX. It aims at providing an intuitive user experience while performing Instance or Schema Matching tasks. It has been implemented on Google Refine (now Open Refine), and leverages an Internal Schema Matching System called the Auto Mapping Core (AMC). From October 2011 to April 2012 (7 months) AIESEC Community Member @ I was member of the AIESEC community in Jordan which part of the global youth network impacting the world through leadership development experiences. From September 2008 to September 2011 (3 years 1 month) Developer (Intern) @ Worked Mainly as a Web developer and UI Expert (Intern): • iLifeCycle: Participated mainly in the design of the UI for this Learning Management System Technologies Used: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (jQuery). •SASTRA Portal, designed the UI for SASTRA University Portal, participated in designing the database schema, architecture, and developed the core packages for the portal. Technologies Used: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (jQuery Library), Flex, and J2EE (JSPs), AJAX. • Conform, Participated in the UI design for this form builder web application. The application was designed on PHP using CakePHP framework. Technologies Used: HTML, CSS (Blueprint Framework), JavaScript, AJAX. • iGnite Portal : Designed the Portal for Ignite Initiative . Technologies used: HTML, CSS (Blueprint Framework), JavaScript. From May 2009 to May 2010 (1 year 1 month) IT Department Team Member @ Worked as a support team member for the logistics department in ARAMEX. Mainly providing reports using Crystal reports and Microsoft SQL Server, testing new modules for deployment and participating in the design for new modules to support ARAMEX stations over the world. From March 2009 to May 2009 (3 months) Oracle Developer @ Worked as an Oracle Developer under Oracle 9i. For this very brief time, i have worked on: • Exam Scheduling System, designed an algorithm that will auto schedule exams for different universities upon certain input restrictions (number of exams conflicts, number of available rooms, number of available teachers and other university specific needs). Technologies Used : Oracle Database 9i and Oracle Developer . From February 2009 to March 2009 (2 months)

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Semantic Web & Information Retrieval @ Telecom ParisTech From 2012 to 2015 Master of Science (MS), Advanced Software Engineering @ University of St. Andrews From 2010 to 2011 Computer Engineering @ Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web From 2013 to 2013 Ahmad ASSAF is skilled in: JavaScript, Java, Databases, Programming, PHP, Software Engineering, Web Applications, Python, Artificial Intelligence, CSS, Data Analysis, Web Development, Algorithms, Semantic Web, Scrum