Atlassian
Rovo Dev for software teams
Leading ML/AI initiatives behind developer-focused products: Rovo Dev, Rovo Dev Code Review, and code search, so engineers get useful AI help in the IDE, PRs, and day-to-day workflow.
ML/AI Technical Leadership · Atlassian
Mohamed
Elkamhawy
I lead ML/AI for developer products like Rovo Dev, from early ideas to systems that ship.
About
I'm part of ML/AI technical leadership at Atlassian, focused on developer AI products like Rovo Dev. I care about taking research ideas into production systems teams can trust.
I lead with clarity: aligning cross-functional partners, mentoring engineers, and driving org-level impact. I studied Computer Engineering at Cairo University, earned a Master's from the University of Washington in Seattle, and I'm enrolled in Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Professional Program.
For roles, collaboration, or speaking, use the contact form or LinkedIn. Selected work and experience are below.
Education
Formal study that anchors how I think about language, models, and production AI.
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University of Washington, Seattle
Master's in Computational Linguistics
Focused on making language models more inclusive, explainable, and robust, with strong grounding in NLP systems that ship.
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Stanford University
Artificial Intelligence Professional Program
Enrolled in Stanford's AI Professional Program, including Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning (XCS224N).
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Cairo University · Faculty of Engineering
B.S. Computer Engineering
Graduated with honors (rank 4th in class). Graduation project: Videolator.
Early milestones
A few markers from the start of the path, kept brief on purpose.
- Microsoft Imagine Cup 2013 · National winner in Egypt and Worldwide App Fast Track Award with Videolator.
- Best Student Award · Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University; among the top 8 students across universities in Egypt.
- National innovation awards · Additional recognition for Videolator including Made In Egypt, Ibtikar, and Egyptian Engineering Day (EED).
Experience
A short path through the roles that shaped how I build and lead ML systems.
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2025 – present
Atlassian · ML/AI Technical Leadership, DevAI
Leading ML/AI for developer products including Rovo Dev, Rovo Dev Code Review, and code search.
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2022 – 2025
Microsoft · Principal → Sr. Principal ML Engineer / TLM
Responsible AI for GitHub Copilot and Bing; IP and copyright commitments; security models and evaluation pipelines.
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2017 – 2022
Amazon / AWS AI · Tech Lead → Science Lead
Lex conversational AI, large-scale product understanding, and ads ranking systems with major business impact.
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2013 – 2017
Microsoft · Applied Scientist → ML Engineer
Web-scale NLP, Windows feedback intelligence, and Azure Spark / HDInsight platform work.
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2011 – 2013
TripleSoft · Co-founder / Tech Lead
Healthtech startup in Egypt: clinic tooling, early Android apps, and building a small engineering team.
Selected work
A few systems I led or heavily shaped. Full detail lives on the resume.
Microsoft
Responsible AI for Copilot and Bing
Shipped systems for PII redaction, code vulnerability detection, malware safeguards, and IP harm filtering. Built benchmarking pipelines so model quality and safety could be evaluated consistently across markets.
AWS AI · Amazon Lex
Conversation generation and NLP tooling
Designed real-time utterance expansion and conversation generation under Lex latency constraints, plus data augmentation and benchmarking tools that became part of Lex's language stack.
Amazon Ads
Sponsored Products ranking
Designed and launched a ranking feature that improved ad relevance and drove about $750M in additional revenue, while hardening auction infrastructure and engineering velocity.
Advising
I advise startups and organizations building AI products, including work with Islamic groups and community-focused teams in the MENA region and beyond.
- SILMA AI · Arabic LLM technology for the MENA region
- Velents · AI/ML roadmap guidance for the product team
- Zad Group · technology and media advisory
Research and IP
Public research and patents connected to secure, edit-time code AI.
Contact
Send a note here, or reach me on LinkedIn.