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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

qrcodereaderview

Modification of ZXING Barcode Scanner project for easy Android QR-Code detection in portrait mode and AR purposes

qrcodescan

Android手机客户端关于二维码扫描的源码，使用了高效的ZBar解码库，并修复了中文乱码。融合了ZXing代码。详细描述可见 http://www.eoeandroid.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=332855&page=1&ordertype=1#pid3990630

quickdraw

Implementation of Quickdraw - an online game developed by Google

quickstart-js

Firebase Quickstart Samples for Web

r2cnn_faster-rcnn_tensorflow

Rotational region detection based on Faster-RCNN.

raster-vision

An open source framework for deep learning on satellite and aerial imagery.

rasterfairy

The purpose of Raster Fairy is to transform any kind of 2D point cloud into a regular raster whilst trying to preserve the neighborhood relations that were present in the original cloud. A typical use case is if you have a similarity clustering of images and want to show the images in a regular table structure.

ray

A high-performance distributed execution engine

realtime_pyaudio_fft

Realtime audio analysis in Python, using PyAudio and Numpy to extract and visualize FFT features from streaming audio.

remotecv

remotecv is an OpenCV server for facial and feature recognition.

research

comma.ai for the people to experiment with

resnext

Implementation of a classification framework from the paper Aggregated Residual Transformations for Deep Neural Networks

restgpt

An LLM-based autonomous agent controlling real-world applications via RESTful APIs

retinaface-tf2

RetinaFace (RetinaFace: Single-stage Dense Face Localisation in the Wild, published in 2019) reimplemented in Tensorflow 2.0, with pretrained weights available !