About
About Sohaib Benamor
An AI-native product and software engineer based in London, beginning UpRise at Upvest in September 2026.
I care about the point where an intelligent decision becomes a real system outcome, and about the evidence required to trust what happened in between.
- Current direction
- UpRise · product engineering
- Research
- Mixed-integer optimisation
- Direction
- Product · backend · finance
- Based in
- London, United Kingdom
01 · Practice
From September 2026, I am a Trainee Software Engineer at Upvest through the UpRise Engineering Accelerator. Before this, my work spanned internal agentic workflows and large-scale data reconciliation for financial systems. It made one idea increasingly concrete for me: intelligence only becomes useful when the surrounding system can make its decisions observable, bounded, and correct.
02 · Foundation
I completed an MSc in Artificial Intelligence with Distinction at King's College London, after undergraduate study at the University of Birmingham. My postgraduate research focuses on mixed-integer optimisation, candidate reduction, experimental validation, and making formal models easier to express and maintain.
03 · Direction
Through UpRise, I am deepening the product and backend side of that work: reliable services, API contracts, event-driven systems, data integrity, and investment-infrastructure domain knowledge. I use AI aggressively for exploration and execution, but not as a substitute for understanding, verification, or accountability.