Mohamed Jourfi

AI Engineerbuilding AI products people actually use.

MSc Artificial Intelligence student at ECE Paris. I built DarijaGPT and DAKAEi AI at DAKAEi, the startup I founded as a student, shipping agents, RAG and voice AI to production.

AI agentsRAGVoice AITool callingLLMsNext.jsReact NativeLiveKitEdge AIPythonTypeScript
01 · Impact

I ship AI to production, not just to demos.

26,000+
monthly visits on DAKAEi AI
30B
tokens processed in one year
4
hackathons, incl. a 2nd place
4
languages spoken
03 · Experience

Where I've worked.

Education

MSc in Artificial IntelligenceECE Paris, engineering school (taught in English) · Sept 2025 – Jul 2027
BSc in Software EngineeringOSTIM Technical University, Ankara (taught in English) · 2021 – 2025

Founder & CTO · DAKAEi Technologies

Dec 2023 – present
Generative AI startup, Liverpool (UK)
  • Designed and built DarijaGPT, an AI travel super app for tourists in Morocco, on web (Next.js) and mobile (React Native, App Store and Google Play).
  • Built DAKAEi AI, an AI agents platform: 26,000+ monthly visits and 30 billion tokens processed in one year.
  • Created Xyla, a voice agent engine with RAG over documents and tool calling, and built Xyla Bot, a 3D-printed robot that runs it on Raspberry Pi 5.
  • Shipped products end to end: PostgreSQL, Redis, Stripe, Sentry, Playwright tests, Vercel.
  • Led the engineering team (code reviews, roadmap) and opened a Dubai subsidiary for the Middle East B2B market.

AI Project Lead & Software Engineer Intern · Robotum Bilişim

Nov 2024 – Jun 2025
Ankara, Turkey
  • Designed an assistant robot on Raspberry Pi 5 with a real-time Python voice pipeline orchestrated with LiveKit Agents.
  • Ran Llama 3.2 3B locally on the Raspberry Pi 5, the team's first embedded AI experiment.
  • Built the robot's interface (animated eyes, Next.js) and integrated cameras, microphones and motors.
04 · Hackathons

Built against the clock.

Hack Nation

Hack Nation, agentic AI challenge (April 2026)

Swocal, AI-generated local offers based on weather, time and merchant rules. Built the React Native app, the Supabase backend and the merchant dashboard.

GDSC

Google Developer Student Clubs hackathon, Turkey (2025)

DAKAEi Edu, an AI learning platform with a memory assistant, quizzes and photo recognition of notes, built with Gemini. Team lead and AI lead.

YC

Y Combinator hackathon

Mistral

Mistral AI hackathon

05 · Toolbox

What I work with.

0115 tools

Generative AI

  • LLMs
  • AI agents
  • Tool calling
  • RAG
  • Embeddings
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • LlamaIndex
  • Prompt engineering
  • Hugging Face
  • OpenAI API
  • Anthropic API
  • Gemini
  • Llama
  • Vercel AI SDK
025 tools

Voice

  • Deepgram
  • ElevenLabs
  • OpenAI Realtime
  • LiveKit
  • WebRTC
035 tools

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • PHP
047 tools

Web & mobile

  • Next.js
  • React
  • React Native (Expo)
  • Node.js
  • REST APIs
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Laravel
0511 tools

Data & infra

  • PostgreSQL
  • Supabase
  • pgvector
  • Pinecone
  • Redis
  • MySQL
  • Vercel
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • GitHub Actions
  • Playwright
  • Sentry
06 · Contact

Let's build something.

jourfi.dev@gmail.com