NOUR ALBAGOURY Contact

49.64° N, 1.62° W  /  Cherbourg, France

Intelligence
for the maritime edge.

Nour Albagoury. AI engineer at a naval defense shipyard. Startup co-founder. Hackathon-winning drone tracker.

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I build AI that works where it matters. The platform a naval shipyard runs on. Software that tracks drones with nothing but a camera. And a company of my own.

Platform / Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie

Black Marlin

The shipyard's own AI platform: a private AI chat for the whole company, a suite of engineering tools, and an offline AI tablet for crews at sea. The platform was built and deployed solo, on sovereign infrastructure.

500+
users
400+
messages a day
4×
H100 NVL
People500+ users, SSO and RBAC
InterfaceChat, tools and agents in one workspace
AgentsAgentic pipelines, tool calling
RetrievalHybrid dense and sparse, reranker, GraphRAG
ModelsvLLM, GPT-OSS 120B, Qwen3 35B
ComputeSecNumCloud, 4× H100 NVL

One platform, the whole shipyard

Black Marlin Chat

A private AI assistant for every employee

Agentic search over internal documents, multiple models, single sign-on and role-based access, and meeting minutes written automatically. Used by 500+ people, 400+ messages a day.

Delivered

Edge AI tablet for ship crews

Fully airgapped. Crews ask by voice or snap a photo of a fault, and get answers from the ship's own handbook, with no connection to shore.

GA plan comparison

Every change between two plan revisions, found for you

Drag to compare two revisions of a general arrangement plan. The differences are flagged automatically.

moved added removed Rev B

AI audit, strategy and roadmap

The shipyard's AI roadmap for 2025 to 2027

An audit of AI needs across the company, every use case ranked by ROI, complexity and business impact, turned into the 2025 to 2027 AI roadmap and presented to the executive AI committee. Then company-wide training to bring every team on board.

  1. 15+departments audited
  2. Rankedby ROI, complexity, impact
  3. 2025 to 2027AI roadmap
  4. Presentedto the executive AI committee

Edge vision / EDTH Rome, July 2026

Ghostlock

First place, by unanimous vote. Software that finds, locks and follows hostile drones using a single camera, on edge hardware.

Locked

Move your pointer over the feed to fly the drone, then cut detections.

Camera only
No radar, no RF. One camera finds and locks the drone.
Never loses the lock
Keeps tracking through blackouts, evasive maneuvers and clutter.
Track, then zoom
Focuses on the target to react faster and see it better.
Runs at the edge
On board, no cloud and no link needed.

Autonomy / EDTH Rome, July 2026

Radio-silent swarm

Five UAVs cover a coastline with no live command link. Lose one, and the rest take over its lanes in silence.

5 drones flying

Each colour is one drone and its lanes. Click a drone to take it out and watch its lanes change hands.

Ventures / Co-founder

VisionFFE

Show it a room.
It finds the furniture.

VisionFFE turns any room image into real furniture you can buy from suppliers near you.

Open VisionFFE

For designers
Every item in a render, sourced and ready for the FF&E schedule.
For everyone
Find similar pieces sold in your region, filtered your way, or design your own room.
For suppliers
Shop-by-photo on their own storefront, turning inspiration into orders.

Record

Experience

  1. AI Engineer, apprenticeship

    Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie, Cherbourg

  2. Software Engineer

    Navasard AI. FastAPI services, GitHub Actions and Docker CI/CD

  3. Machine Learning Research Intern

    LISN, Paris. Constraint programming evaluation pipeline, accuracy up 25%

  4. Data Science Intern

    Fawry Quantum, Cairo. DBSCAN over 700,000+ logins, auth accuracy up 50%

Education

  1. Master, Data Science and AI (ISD)

    Université Paris-Saclay, apprenticeship

  2. Double degree, BSc Mathematics and Computer Science

    ENS Paris-Saclay and Université Paris-Saclay. Grade A, ranked 7 of 150

Stack

LLM and retrieval
vLLM, LangGraph, LangChain, GraphRAG, Milvus, BGE-M3, rerankers, Mistral OCR
Vision
PyTorch, Ultralytics YOLO, BoT-SORT, Kalman filtering, CLIP, GroundingDINO, SAM, VLMs
Infrastructure
Docker, FastAPI, GitHub Actions, Keycloak, AWS, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki
Languages
Python, Java, C and C++, OCaml, SQL. English, French, Arabic, Spanish

Let's build
what's next.

nour@albagoury.com LinkedIn GitHub CV (PDF)