Ahmed – Python, AI agent development, LLM
Ahmed is a Senior AI/ML Engineer with 14 years of experience building production-grade systems using Python and distributed architectures. He has led development of multi-agent AI products, RAG pipelines, and scalable backend systems across startups and large tech companies, including Microsoft and Lyft. His work combines strong ownership with hands-on execution, from architecture design to performance optimization. He communicates effectively with stakeholders and translates product needs into AI-driven solutions. His background spans large-scale data processing, performance optimization, and early-stage product development, and he is comfortable mentoring and operating in fast-moving startup environments.
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Head of AI / Technical Lead
Built a production-grade multi-agent AI system that converts natural language into data insights, dashboards, and reports by interpreting complex schemas, generating and validating SQL queries, and automatically producing visualizations and summaries.
- Took product from prototype to full production system;
- Designed end-to-end multi-agent architecture (querying, validation, visualization, insights);
- Built a semantic layer enabling accurate SQL generation across complex schemas;
- Implemented RAG pipelines for large-table retrieval and context enrichment;
- Reduced latency from 12s to 1.5s and cut retries by ~50%;
- Developed pipelines to convert unstructured Excel data into structured datasets;
- Built evaluation and validation frameworks to ensure AI output correctness;
- Led system architecture, task decomposition, and cross-functional execution;
- Collaborated directly with customers to translate ambiguous needs into AI solutions.
Lead Software Engineer
Improved large-scale identity resolution by designing more effective blocking strategies that increased matching accuracy while maintaining performance at scale.
- Designed advanced blocking strategies improving match coverage;
- Built an evaluation & experimentation framework for algorithm quality;
- Increased recall and matching accuracy in identity resolution;
- Enabled systematic testing of algorithmic improvements;
- Contributed to roadmap decisions around measurable ML quality improvements.
Senior Software Engineer
Designed and deployed infrastructure optimization systems to reduce cloud costs and improve performance across large-scale production services.
- Led company-wide DynamoDB best practices and architecture;
- Built a custom autoscaling system outperforming AWS defaults (~4 minutes faster);
- Saved ~$1.5M/year through DynamoDB architecture optimizations;
- Generated $80K+/month savings via autoscaling improvements;
- Migrated massive datasets (billions of records) safely and efficiently
- Conducted infra audits, uncovering $100K/month waste.
Machine Learning Research Engineer
Designed and built NLP systems and research prototypes to improve readability, language understanding, and large-scale text analysis, resulting in multiple publications in top NLP venues.
- Built Smart Reader, a system providing contextual linguistic insights (syntax, semantics, lexical info);
- Developed algorithms for improving text readability and word wrapping;
- Conducted large-scale analysis of Arabic dialects from social media data;
- Published multiple papers in top-tier NLP conferences;
- Translated theoretical ideas into working systems and prototypes.