# Mahmoud Badawi

> Software Engineer II  @ Hive AI | Ex - Meta | Ex - Tesla | Electrical and Computer Engineering Student @ Rice

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mahmoudbadawi

An enthusiastic engineer that loves problem-solving and building stuff.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Hive
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
ML Infrastructure Engineer.

- ML Infrastructure Tools:
• Engineered and currently maintain a customizable HDFS data loading tool for ML engineers, designed to perform runtime preprocessing from remote Parquet files across a distributed architecture, utilizing PyTorch and PyArrow.

• Collaborated with the team to develop an in-house tool for tracking and visualizing ML experiment metrics.

- Data Pipelines:
• Developed the Python backend for data pipelines processing over 40 billion image/text pairs and managing more than 20 petabytes of data.

• Developed multimedia active learning pipelines that perform batch inference from remote sources, minimizing disk and memory usage while maximizing GPU utilization, and selectively saving keys and metadata of key data samples.

• Architected and implemented generative PyTorch pipelines employing GAN and diffusion models for images, and Text-to-Speech (TTS) models for audio.

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Vehicle Software Intern @ Tesla
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
• Built a full data science pipeline to collect, analyze, and use signal data using Apache Spark and Pandas in python.
• Developed & trained ML models to enhance phone key-car interaction and boost user experience.
• Deployed the developed ML models in C to be used in the vehicles

### Teaching Assistant @ Rice University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | United States
• Assisting students in programming fundamentals and computational thinking through weekly help lectures.
• Grading students’ assignments and providing feedback to the students and the professor.

### Arabic Language Consultant @ Center for Languages & Intercultural Communication, Rice University.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Houston, Texas, United States
• Designing and reviewing educational content for undergraduate Arabic language students.
• Holding Discussion tables and tutoring hours.

### Data Science Researcher @ Rice University Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Houston, Texas, United States
• Studying the potential of utilizing graph centralities other than degree centrality in capturing the structural identity of nodes in a graph to be able to better understand the abundant data in the form of networks.
• Currently testing a modified method on air-traffic networks.
• Network data includes PPI networks, communication networks, social networks, etc.

### Assistant Data Analyst @ Rice University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
•Analyzed and electronically documented hundreds of Texas elections data from the 90s using Microsoft Excel

### President @ Education USA Egypt: Competitive College Club — Cairo
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Cairo, Egypt
• Set milestones and achieved 25% higher acceptance rate for club members applying to colleges in the US. 
• Mentored applicants, held interviews and seminars, and helped EducationUSA with outreach.

### Deputy Chief Executive Officer of STEMAL @ STEM High School for Boys - 6th of October
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Cairo, Egypt
“STEMAL is an organization concerned with providing STEM high school students with a vast set of soft skills. We held a yearly scientific fair “STEM Market”, sponsored by international companies, for students to pitch their projects.”
• Enhanced the organization’s mission and vision to broaden our network and magnify our impact.
• Oversaw the organization’s performance and administered committees.

### Human Resources Manager of STEMAL @ STEM High School for Boys - 6th of October
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Cairo, Egypt
• Set KPIs, drew SWOT analyses, interviewed/hired members, and maintained a healthy work environment.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rice University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/farouk-badawi

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Last updated: 2026-04-11