Portrait of Majd Al Kayyal

Systems Architect

Designing distributed systems, LLM platforms, and cloud-native software in Munich.

5 yrsBuilding production systems
LLMsMulti-agent β€’ LangChain/Graph
Web Services.NET Core β€’ FastAPI β€’ Express
DatabasesSQL Optimization
Cloud ServicesAWS β€’ Azure
Distributed SystemsKafka

About Me

Research-driven engineer delivering enterprise AI systems

I’m a Senior Software Engineer & Assistant Manager at KPMG Germany, building scalable backend and AI-driven systems. My work bridges research and enterprise β€” from multi-agent systems and RAG pipelines to production-grade software engineering and mentoring global teams.

Technical Skills

A snapshot of tools I use to ship

Languages

C#PythonTypeScriptC++SQL

Frameworks

.NET CoreFastAPIExpressReactNestJS

Cloud & Infra

AWSAzureDockerKubernetesAzure DevOps

AI & LLM

LangChainRAGPyTorchMulti-AgentSFT

Data & DBs

PostgreSQLMongoDBSQL Server

Leadership

Agile/ScrumMentorshipPMCode Reviews

Professional Experience

Impact, not just responsibilities

KPMG Deutschland β€” Senior Software Engineer Β· Assistant Manager

Jul 2024 – PresentMunich
  • Co-led a 40+ engineer global team delivering KPMG’s Transfer Pricing Reporting platform.
  • Architected modules for multi-ToC reports and compliance-driven master file generation.
  • Cut report generation time by 90% via refactoring + Azure Functions microservices.
  • Integrated AI/LLM capabilities for intelligent automation.

McKinsey & Company / TUM β€” LLM Research Engineer (Thesis)

Oct 2024 – Apr 2025
  • Developed StrategicAI, a multi-agent LLM system for structured decision support.
  • Built RAG pipelines and dynamic prompting frameworks using LangChain and AWS.
  • Outperformed ChatGPT-4o in strategic reasoning; published at ECML 2025.

Fusionbase / TUM β€” AI Systems Engineer Β· Project Lead

Oct 2023 – Jun 2024
  • Led CreateData4AI platform (Next.js + FastAPI + MongoDB + Ray).
  • Reduced processing from 6 days to 5 minutes with distributed embedding computation.

PwC Deutschland β€” Associate Software Engineer

Apr 2023 – Jun 2024
  • Built and maintained internal AuthaaS SSO platform.
  • Integrated Prometheus & Grafana for observability.
  • Implemented regression tests reducing incidents by 40%.

TelyPay (Maaly) β€” Senior Software Engineer & PM β†’ Technical Consultant

Feb 2022 – Nov 2024
  • Founded and led the engineering team; delivered Oman’s first Open Banking integration.
  • Built NLP-based personal finance app; led AWS cloud migration.
  • Won β€œBest Financial App in Oman” (COMEX 2023).

Webware β€” Full-Stack Developer

Feb 2020 – Apr 2021
  • Developed cross-platform donation app for Dar Al Atta.
  • Integrated payments, SMS, and email notifications.

Education

Academic foundations

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

M.Sc. Data Engineering and Analytics
cGPA: 1.3 / 1.0 β€” DAAD Scholar

German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)

B.Sc. Computer Science
cGPA: 4.0 / 4.0 β€” Rector’s Medalist, DAAD Bachelor Scholar

Awards & Honors

Recognition for excellence

DAAD Master Scholarship β€” top 5% academic excellence
Academic Rector’s Medal β€” top graduate at GUtech
DAAD Bachelor Thesis Scholarship β€” research at RWTH Aachen
OES Scholarship β€” full merit-based undergrad scholarship
ICPC Oman Champion β€” 1st place nationally

Research & Publications

Where theory meets practice

StrategicAI: Multi-Agent Decision Support System β€” Published at ECML 2025

Research collaboration with McKinsey & Company and Technical University of Munich.