About

Ahmed Kamal is a highly skilled and experienced Tech Lead with a passion for building and shipping data products that enhance people's lives. He is currently leading the AI Platforms team at Careem, an Uber subsidiary, and the MENA super-app operating in the ride-hailing, delivery, and payments domains, serving over 30 million users. Ahmed has extensive experience in machine learning, software engineering, big data engineering, and problem-solving, making him an expert in product management and design. As a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Careem, Ahmed is leading the machine learning infra team to build an end-to-end machine learning platform with several components covering the stages of ML development. By decreasing the development and time to production of ML use cases from weeks to hours, Ahmed has saved hundreds of thousands of dollars every quarter. He has also enabled thousands of models on production on a large scale and built new solutions for democratizing ML usage, including auto-ML and generic time-series forecasting capabilities. Ahmed's past experience includes working as a Machine Learning Engineer and Data Science Engineer at Careem, where he led a team for building the Careem Machine Learning Platform (YODA) and designed and built the first version of the Careem Big Data Platform. He has also developed different infra pieces for automating the creation of real-time pipelines transforming and ingesting terabytes of data monthly using Apache Parquet, Kinesis, AWS Lambda, Cloud Formation, Hive HCatalog, and solved Careem's ad-hock querying needs by adopting Presto. Ahmed's technical expertise includes AI, Senior Software Engineer, ML, Software Engineer, Data Engineering, Data Scientist, infra, test, product manager, Spark, AWS, HDFS, Apache Airflow, Big Data, Hadoop, and Apache Hive. Ahmed holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Engineering from Tanta University and completed his General Secondary Education from Ibrahimya Secondary School. He is a Lead Speaker at AI Monday @ Berlin 2019 and has spoken at several other conferences. Ahmed is a proficient problem solver and has relevant experience of 10.53 years.