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saifrahmed/README.md

hello world, its saif!

My name is Saif. I'm an accomplished product leader, quantitative platform developer, and ML practitioner who has consistently tackled tough, real-life problems and successfully delivered lasting platforms and solutions.

I'm especially good at balancing ground-level efforts with user interaction, stakeholder management, and organizational savvy to help deliver solutions which will be accepted and flourish in difficult enterprise settings. I have significant professional experience leading major strategic initiatives with complex quantitative/analytical components. I prefer being hands-on at least part of the time – analyzing data, prototyping solutions and working with teams on-the-ground.

Having done both Platform and Partner Engineering for over a decade, I bring deep ground-level experience instead of just applying theoretical enterprise architecture. Everything from evaluating components for correctness to facing Regulators to defend firm interests. My past work lives on -- at stock exchanges, global clearing facilities, banks, hedge funds, hospitals, and at US defense+intelligence facilities.

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Experience

sparks & honey sparks & honey Chief Technology Officer
SVP, Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC)
Kinetica Kinetica Director of Engineering, ML
Director of Developer Relations
DocHuddle DocHuddle Chief Technology Officer
AIG Investments AIG Investments Chief Quantitative Technologist
Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs Sr. Associate, Derivatives X-Technology
Accenture Accenture Sr. Consultant, NY Capital Markets Group

Education

Kinetica UC Berkeley M.S. Information and Data Science
Kinetica Cornell University B.S. Computer Science
Kinetica The Rockefeller University Summer Fellow
SEED Fellow

Awards

  • Bill Clinton Award for Academic Achievement
  • Westinghouse Science Talent Search National Semifinalist
  • Hal Varian Award winner for best capstone project: “DeepJams: ML Meets Music Composition”

byJavier de la Torre

Link to the talk Youtube video

Select Talks & Publications

Conference NVIDIA Financial Services Forum 2019 Asset management with modern ML and Graph techniques. Presented in London, December 2019.
Conference Spatial Data Science Conference 2021 Panel: New Types of Data for Innovative Spatial Modeling
Conference TomTom ML Conf Machine Learning on X-Rays for Low-Cost Tuberculosis Infection Detection - TomTom ML Conf
Conference HIMSS-2017 Machine Learning in Medicine - Organizational Setup and Enterprise Architecture. HIMSS-2017.
Conference HIS 2015 Infection Control via Augmented Reality. Hospital Infection Society, Annual Conference, HIS 2015.
Book Machine Learning with TensorFlow. Co-author PACKT Publishing, 2017

Certifications

AWS Cloud Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner

Pinned

  1. kineticadb/community-vaccines kineticadb/community-vaccines Public

    Could Graph Optimizations Help Deliver Donated Covid Vaccines Overseas PreExpiry?

    Jupyter Notebook 3 1

  2. kineticadb/container-kml-blackbox-sdk kineticadb/container-kml-blackbox-sdk Public

    Kinetica BlackBox Model SDK

    Python 3 1

  3. kineticadb/saferun kineticadb/saferun Public

    Jupyter Notebook 4