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Name: Saif Ahmed

Type: User

Company: @sparksandhoney

Bio: CTO @sparksandhoney omnicom. ML Engineering Director @kineticadb, CTO @dochuddle, Grad @ucberkeley and WallSt Hedge Fund Quant Chief.

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Blog: https://linktr.ee/saifrahmed

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.

Experience


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

Education


	UC Berkeley	M.S. Information and Data Science
	Cornell University	B.S. Computer Science
	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


	Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner

Saif Ahmed's Projects

matplotlib

matplotlib: plotting with Python

mazes

A selection of maze generators based on Mazes for Programmers by Jamis Buck. Written in Python. Exported as ASCII and SVG

medalpaca

LLM finetuned for medical question answering

mediapipe-holistic-tracking

medrefglass

Fun facial recognition hack for Google Glass. To run you need to put your own API key/secret in: MedRefAppEngineServer/web/oauth.properties

meta-vision-api

Hacky Meta Glasses GPT4 Vision Integration

meteorjshackathon

MeteorJS Hackathon

methods3-fall2018

Website for Methods 3 Fall 2018 student projects

midi.js

:musical_keyboard: Making life easy to create a MIDI-app on the web. Includes a library to program synesthesia into your app for memory recognition or for creating trippy effects. Convert soundfonts for Guitar, Bass, Drums, ect. into code that can be read by the browser. Supports multiple simultaneous instruments and perfect timing.

midiutil

A pure Python library for creating multi-track MIDI files

mids-cloudera-hadoop

MIDS W261 - Cloudera Hadoop on Docker

mids-w251-final-project

Repo for final project of "MIDS W251 - Scaling up Really Big Data" course

mids_head_start

Resources for coming up to speed on everything necessary to tackle the MIDS curriculum

min-dalle

mirror-quickstart-python

Google Mirror API's Quickstart for Python

ml-feynman-experience

Collection of statistical models implemented with Python on Google Colab

ml-rest

REST API (and possible UI) for Machine Learning workflows

ml4a-guides

practical guides, tutorials, and code samples for ml4a

mlwithtf

Machine Learning With TensorFlow

mobilenetv2-yolov3

MobileNetV2-YoloV3-Nano: 0.5BFlops 3MB HUAWEI P40: 6ms/img, YoloFace-500k:0.1Bflops500KB:fire::fire::fire:

models

Models built with TensorFlow

motion

AI assisted motion detection for Home Assistant

mozjpeg

Improved JPEG encoder.

mpandroidchart

A powerful Android chart view / graph view library, supporting line- bar- pie- radar- bubble- and candlestick charts as well as scaling, dragging and animations.