Yehya Abouelnaga

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Experience

Staff Software Engineer
Personio (HR SaaS, 1600+ Employees, $8B Valuation)
2025 – Present
Leading Personio's Money domain (e.g., salaries, compensations, management APIs) and its integration in Payroll, Analytics, Reporting, Recruiting, and Artificial Intelligence teams.
Sr. Software Engineer, Tech Lead
Amazon
2017 – 2025
Led global teams building and operating large-scale ML systems for moderating Amazon customer content (text, images, video), improving trust and safety across US, EU, AU, India, and the Middle East. Designed and launched Amazon’s first customer-facing LLM feature—automated review summaries—while defining ML and automation roadmaps in close partnership with Product and AWS teams. Built organizational depth by hiring and mentoring 40+ engineers and scientists, publishing internal research, and advising senior leadership on ML investment strategy.

Education

Technical University of Munich
M.Sc. Computer Science (With Distinction)
Specialization: Computer Vision (AI)
The American University in Cairo
B.Sc. Computer Science (Highest Honors)
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Exchange Scholar, Computer Science

Publications 862 Citations

Driver Distraction Identification with an Ensemble of Convolutional Neural Networks 347 citations
H.M. Eraqi, Y. Abouelnaga, M.H. Saad, M.N. Moustafa
Journal of Advanced Transportation, Machine Learning in Transportation Issue, 2019
Real-time distracted driver posture classification 344 citations
Y. Abouelnaga, H.M. Eraqi, M.N. Moustafa
32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2018, Montreal
CIFAR-10: KNN-based Ensemble of Classifiers 134 citations
Y. Abouelnaga, O.S. Ali, H. Rady, M. Moustafa
2016 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence
San Francisco Crime Classification 17 citations
Y. Abouelnaga
arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.03626, 2016
DistillPose: Lightweight Camera Localization Using Auxiliary Learning 15 citations
Y. Abouelnaga, M. Bui, S. Ilic
2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Prague
Audiovisual Moderation of Customer Review Videos in a Unified Framework
E. Gundogdu, Y. Abouelnaga, M. Abouelenein, P. Prokopiuk, P. Neginsky, N. Garg, L. A. Rubino, B. Pepik, S. Yadegari, M. Donoser
Amazon Computer Vision Conference 2022
Automatic Moderation of Customer Review Videos on Amazon
E. Gundogdu, Y. Abouelnaga, N. Garg, L. A. Rubino, B. Pepik, S. Gokani, P. Neginsky, S. Yadegari
Amazon Computer Vision Conference 2021