Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Interests
Timeline
Academic Honorary Mention
Technical Proficiency
Academic Honorary Mention
Technical Proficiency
Hi, I’m

Engr. Ahmad Khalid

Project Manager & AI Engineer
Lahore,Punjab

Summary

Dedicated AI Engineer and Project Manager with 4+ years professionally experienced in directing activities of workgroups. Develops strategies, engineer system architectures, provides training, sets goals and obtains team feedback. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Big picture focus with excellence in communicating goals and vision to succeed. Problem solver, networker and consensus builder.

Overview

5
years of post-secondary education
2
Languages
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Contractor
Lahore, Pakistan

Senior Data Scientist
06.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Spearheaded the analysis of intricate healthcare insurance use cases.
  • Collaborated with data analysts, employing robust SQL queries to architect and refine use cases on Big Data platform i.e. Impala & Hive.
  • Led comprehensive EDA for various use cases using PySpark and Python, showcasing adeptness in uncovering insights and patterns in complex datasets.
  • Engineered and deployed solutions for data clustering, focusing on optimization techniques. This effort significantly enhanced data processing efficiency and performance.
  • Excelled in developing predictive models by innovating in feature engineering, model selection, and cross-validation processes, resulting in more accurate and reliable outcomes.
  • Played a key role in the team by streamlining the productionization of model pipelines through SageMaker on AWS cloud, demonstrating expertise in deploying scalable and robust cloud-based data solutions.

Transdata LLC
Woodbridge, New Jersy

Technical Project Manager
04.2022 - 05.2023

Job overview

Achievements

  • Landed 5 Major Projects in Total and Brought business of around 265,000 USD per year

Responsibilities

  • Lead team of Database Engineers, Frontend, Backend Developers, Machine Learning Researchers & DevOps Engineers.
  • Coordinate and communication with Business Development, Content Writers, Technical Recruiters, and Management to streamline project requirements.
  • Generate technical leads to bring huge profit for company.

Major Projects

1. Document Management System for US Properties

  • Understood requirements of projects and coordinate effectively with client and developers.
  • Used JIRA for scheduling tasks, epics and sprints.
  • Designed SOTA Document Classification algorithm based upon Deep Learning solutions of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.
  • Implemented API through REST Framework and integrated Django Backend with React Frontend.
  • Deployed backend server on EC2 instance of AWS with SSL.
  • Architected automated training and inference pipeline with AWS API Gateway and Lambda
  • Designed inference pipelines of Large Language Model through Sagemaker and S3
  • Did RnD on Vector Database with ChromaDB

2. AI Health Bot - Healthcare Chat Bot for Patients

  • Gone through complete system architecture processes. Designed Database Entity relations and normalized them to avoid redundancy.
  • Deployed complete website consisting of User sign-in, chat bot with natural sounding text-to-speech with Python Django, JavaScript & Bootstrap.
  • Developed various queries to assist user.

3. Startup Maturity Scorecard

  • Developed maturity assessment algorithm for startup.
  • Built REST APIs through Django and deployed on Heroku Salesforce platform
  • Brought lead, managed developers related to Frontend, UI/UX, DevOps and Backend engineering.

Orblogic Inc
Sterling, USA

Senior AI Engineer
10.2020 - 05.2022

Job overview

  • Given responsibility of Effective API implementation for AI features in Python.
  • Conducted research to test feasibility, design, operation and performance of equipment, components, and systems.

1. Automated AI Interview Bot

  • Designed especially for Autistic people and Coded efficient Implemented full-stack software including POC (Proof of Concept), Database Design, Back-end Programming, AI Model deployments, Front-end designing and deployed into Production server.
  • Currently developing propriety solution of AI based Avatar Video interview feature with Deep Video Synthesis AI model.

2. Time and Attendance App

  • Deployed state-of-art Face Detection and Face Recognition.
  • Deep Learning Transformer for efficient person recognition.
  • Researched and Implemented Spoof Detection System on top of Face Recognition to avoid fake attendances.

3. Resume Analysis Bot

  • Designed for recruiters who receive thousands of resumes after posting job vacancy. This application automate complete process of candidate's technical and soft skills analysis.
  • Implemented both Backend with REST Framework and Frontend with Google Charts for informative visualization.
  • Made propriety algorithm for company that can rank candidates based upon job description requirements.

Estar Tech Innovation
Karachi, Pakistan

Research & Development Engineer
12.2019 - 03.2022

Job overview

Responsibilities

  • Reviewed project goals and objectives on monthly basis with project manager and design team.
  • Provided technical leadership for company to effectively steer strategic plans and future projects.
  • Successfully completed more than 10 projects with complete client satisfaction.

Major Projects

1. Learning Management System (LMS) for Educational Institutes

  • Designed Database of LMS with normalization rules for enhanced scalability.
  • Implemented backend system with Django Forms and Template Models.
  • Optimized CCTV camera streams for parallel processing using multithreading.
  • Implemented runtime AI Face Recognition based Face Recognition for Attendance.

2. Encrypted RFID based Car Security System

  • Synchronized two different implemented 256 bits Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption algorithms for ESP-32 microcontroller and Computer.
  • Implemented Frontend and Backend and worked on their integrations using REST Framework and Django framework.

3. Other Projects

  • IoT based Air Monitoring System
  • Automatic Milk Shop Machine with SMS Notification System
  • Speech Recognition based RC Car Control System with Object Detection

Robokids Pakistan
Lahore, Punjab

Machine Learning Engineer
07.2019 - 08.2020

Job overview

Responsibilities

  • Created customized applications to make critical predictions, automate reasoning and decisions, and calculate optimization algorithms.
  • Prototyped machine learning applications and quickly determined application viability.
  • Established open and professional relationships with team members to achieve quick resolutions for various issues.

Major Projects

1. Wireless Head controlled Wheelchair for Disabled People

  • Planned, Designed and Implemented Medical Technology based project with complete client satisfaction.
  • Integrated hardware with firmware program. Fine tuned hardware response.
  • Configured several kind of hardware and wrote configuration libraries in C++

2. Driver's Face Recognition and Drowsiness Detection System

  • Conducted research to test and analyze feasibility, design, operation and performance of equipment, components and systems for Driver's safety and health.
  • Trained Face Recognition model based upon ResNet-34 + KNN Architecture and achieved 99.15% accuracy on challenging benchmark Celebrities dataset.
  • Programmed complete system of Drowsiness detection with HOG + SVM based face detector and ResNet-34 based Landmark detection models.
  • Optimized memory and time and made it robust enough to be deployed in Raspberry Pi Microcontroller with SMS & Email notifications.

3. Other Projects

  • Face Recognition based Door Lock System with SMS & Email Notification using HaarCascade Face Detector & EigenFaces features.
  • Basketball Detection System using aggregate channel features (ACF) with more than 80% detection accuracy on runtime.
  • Prototype Self Autonomous car with Haarcascade based object detector on Raspberry Pi with Camera on RC Car.


UET Lahore
Lahore, Punjab

Final Year Project
06.2018 - 04.2019

Job overview

  • AI Sign to Speech Conversion Gesture Glove for Dumb People
  • Coordinated with project supervisor and team members
  • Completed product with more than 85% accuracy on gestures of random deaf and mute persons
  • Achieved 0.8s response time for Gesture-to-Speech process.

Education

MS Computer Sciences
Information Technology University, Lahore

Master of Science from Computer Science And Programming
08.2022 - Current

University Overview

  • Secured 14th Position in the Overall Merit List among 160 selected candidates

University of Engineering & Technology
Lahore

Bachelor of Science from Electrical Engineering
10.2015 - 07.2019

University Overview

  • Awarded 1st Position in Machine Learning based Final Year Project among 40 projects.

Skills

    Team Management

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Accomplishments

  • FYP featured on several media such as ProPakistani, Samaa TV, & Dunya News
  • Chaired IEEE UET Computer for 1 Year
  • Society Student Chapter and generated revenue more than 15000 Rs by conducting various workshops
  • Most Profitable Chapter of IEEE
  • UET Student Society
  • Organized Workshop on Machine Learning leading towards Deep Learning for 50 participants

Interests

Artificial Intelligence

Sign Language Classification

Instruction Level Parallelism

Integration of React in Django Templates

Timeline

Senior Data Scientist

Contractor
06.2023 - Current

MS Computer Sciences

Master of Science from Computer Science And Programming
08.2022 - Current

Technical Project Manager

Transdata LLC
04.2022 - 05.2023

Senior AI Engineer

Orblogic Inc
10.2020 - 05.2022

Research & Development Engineer

Estar Tech Innovation
12.2019 - 03.2022

Machine Learning Engineer

Robokids Pakistan
07.2019 - 08.2020

Final Year Project

UET Lahore
06.2018 - 04.2019

University of Engineering & Technology

Bachelor of Science from Electrical Engineering
10.2015 - 07.2019

Academic Honorary Mention

Programming Fundamentals (OOP in Java with Eclipse IDE):

A- Grade

Introduction to Programming (C in Linux OS):

A+ Grade

Final Year Project (Embedded Systems and Machine Learning):

A+ Grade

Technical Proficiency

  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Data Science
  • MS Office
  • Python
  • Django
  • Javascript/HTML/CSS
  • Microcontrollers

Academic Honorary Mention

MS PROGRAM


Advanced Computer Architecture

A- Grade

Advanced Operating Systems

A- Grade

Research Methodology

A Grade


BS PROGRAM


Programming Fundamentals (OOP in Java with Eclipse IDE):

A- Grade

Introduction to Programming (C in Linux OS):

A+ Grade

Final Year Project (Embedded Systems and Machine Learning):

A+ Grade

Technical Proficiency

  • Python
  • JIRA
  • REST Framework (Serializes, Integration with React CORS Headers)
  • Django (Models, Templates, Class based Views, Authentication)
  • Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Impala, ORM)
  • Javascript/HTML/CSS (Bootstrap 5, Axios, Ajax, Jquery)
  • DevOps (AWS EC2, AWS API Gateway, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, AWS Sagemaker, Heroku, GCP Vertex AI, GCP Compute Engine)
  • Machine Learning/ Deep Learning (Scikit Learn, Tensorflow, Pytorch)
  • Computer Vision (OpenCV, PIL, Imutils)
  • Natural Language Processing (Spacy, HuggingFace, GPT 2, GPT 3)
  • Data Science (Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Spark, Cloudera)
  • MS Office
Engr. Ahmad KhalidProject Manager & AI Engineer