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
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| phaidon | Chief Technology Officer
Phaidon International |
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| sparks & honey | Chief Technology Officer
SVP, Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC) |
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| Kinetica | Director of Engineering, ML
Director of Developer Relations |
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| DocHuddle | Chief Technology Officer |
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| AIG Investments | Chief Quantitative Technologist
Derivatives Quant Team Lead @ AIG FP
Systems & Business Architect @ AIG Markets
Front Office Developer (CDS & Rates)@ AIG Investments |
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| Goldman Sachs | Sr. Associate, Derivatives X-Technology |
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| Accenture | Sr. Consultant, NY Capital Markets Group |
Education
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|UC Berkeley | M.S. Information and Data Science |
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|Cornell University | B.S. Computer Science |
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|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 graduate project: “DeepJams: ML Meets Music Composition”
Select Talks & Publications
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| 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
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|Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner