Career path

From dashboards to
data leadership.

From BI reporting, through machine learning and generative AI, to leading data & innovation projects up to executive level, with a PMP® on top to make the delivery repeatable.

Yahya Mdarhri at a Citoyens en Action session
Dec 2023 → Present
Digital Research & Development Engineer
International University of Rabat (UIR) · Rabat, Morocco
Vice-Presidency for Research, Development, Innovation & Partnerships. I scope, lead, and deploy data solutions as full project lifecycles (PMI/PMP standards), coordinating teams and stakeholders up to the highest institutional level.
  • Research Intelligence Platform. Turned 360+ researchers tracked in scattered Excel files into a real-time single source of truth, now at the core of institutional communications and activity reports.
  • University rankings lead. Coordinated the whole university to acquire, analyze, and submit data for THE, THE Impact and QS, turning a fragmented process into a repeatable submission cycle.
  • "Inn2Market": patent ideation & valorization. Moved a paper-based process into a structured data system with the Technology Transfer Office, giving a single trackable pipeline from idea to market.
  • Strategic database negotiations. Led Scopus & ScienceDirect renewal negotiations backed by usage-data analysis to optimize institutional spending.
  • "Tamkeen for Cities" labeling program. With the Innovation Center and the Ministry of the Interior, digitized the evaluation of sustainable, innovative cities: faster, more consistent, and scalable.
  • Governance. Member of the R&D ethics committee and the university's environmental committee.
2023 · ~5 months
AI / ML Engineer (Remote)
Niloom (formerly abxr) · New York, USA · distributed team
  • Generative AI for AR/VR. Led an AI assistant that generates AR/VR scenes automatically, and built generative-AI capabilities to create 3D assets from scratch: core features of the startup's product, shipped within an internationally distributed engineering team.
2022
Business Intelligence Engineer
Sanlam Data Factory · Casablanca, Morocco
  • Financial & accounting reporting. Designed and deployed Tableau dashboards, transforming raw, unstructured data into decision-ready reporting used for business monitoring.
Selected project

Open-source NER, in the wild

Multilingual Named Entity Recognition model

Medtech Group · published on Hugging Face

Production-ready NLP resources that handle Arabic (let alone Arabic alongside French and English) are scarce. I fine-tuned and published an open entity-recognition model on Hugging Face that reads all three, and extends past the usual academic labels to the identifiers real document work depends on: IBANs, card and ID numbers, contact details.

NLPNERAR · FR · ENmBERT Hugging Face50K+ downloads
Research

Publication

Contemporary Management Research · 2025 · Open Access

Examining the Impact of Influencer Attributes on Consumer Trust and Purchase Intention: A PLS Path Modeling Approach

Kerkri, A.; Madani, M.A.; Dani, M.; Mdarhri, Y. · Engineering Sciences Laboratory (LSI), ENSA, Mohammed Premier University, Oujda

A study of how the perceived authenticity, attractiveness, and informativeness of Moroccan social-media influencers shape consumer trust and purchase intention, with trust as the mediating factor. Using PLS path modeling on 291 respondents plus k-means clustering, we found that attractiveness and informativeness drive trust (which in turn drives purchase intention), while perceived authenticity did not significantly affect trust.

Read the paper → View on Scopus DOI: 10.7903/cmr.23860
Education & certification

Where it's grounded

PMP certificate issued to Yahya Mdarhri by the Project Management Institute, certification number 4407525
PMP® certified

Project Management Professional (PMP)®

Project Management Institute (PMI)
Certification No.
4407525
Issued
9 June 2026
Expires
9 June 2029
Verify on the PMI registry →
Expected 2027

Master's in Project & Program Management

Rabat Business School

Formalizing the management craft that complements the engineering side.

2023

State Engineering Degree in Data Science & Cloud Computing

ENSA Oujda

The technical foundation: ML, data engineering, and cloud.

2018

Baccalaureate, Mathematical Sciences (Option B)

Rabat

Where the love of structure and problem-solving started.

Volunteering

Citizen Mentor, Les Citoyens

Supported data-driven citizen initiatives (public-interest censuses and studies led by civil society) and mentored teams during data hackathons and events.

Languages

Three languages, daily

ArabicNative
FrançaisProfessional
EnglishProfessional
What I can offer → My music & project