About

Asad is a highly skilled Data Scientist with over 9 years of experience in the field of Machine Learning and Big Data. He is passionate about using cutting-edge technology to solve real-world problems, and has a strong background in backend development. Asad has a good understanding of Machine Learning algorithms and has hands-on experience with the Big Data Stack, including Apache Hadoop, STORM, HIVE, HBASE, SPARK, TEZ, ZOOKEEPER, CASSANDRA, AMBARI, and YARN. He is also knowledgeable about Neural Networks and has experience building high-throughput scalable architectures. Asad has a proven track record of translating business problems into concrete technical problems and building scalable training/deployment infrastructure for Machine Learning modules. He has experience in building highly scalable big data systems that collect, process, and store huge amounts of data. Asad is skilled in deploying methodologies using Amazon Web Services and is strong in design and integration problem-solving skills. Asad has worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Betaout, where he worked on various projects, including a recommendation system using collaborative filtering and alternating least square algorithms using MLib, predictive segmentation, and a real-time high-throughput scalable streaming system that calculates client-defined properties from real-time e-commerce events using Storm for multiple clients. He has also worked as a Backend Software Engineer at WhichApp, where he designed and developed the Web APIs for WeShare from scratch, built the recommendation engine using AWS EMR, and developed an uninstall tracking solution for WeShare. Asad has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University. He is skilled in a wide range of technologies, including AWS, ML, Spark, Big Data, Java, Mobile, HDFS, Cassandra, Redis, SQL, Backend, Python, PHP, Elastic Search, MySQL, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Kafka, Search, Ansible, NLP, Integration, Apache Hive, Docker, Neural Networks, Hadoop, infra, Software Engineer, Scikit, Pandas, Scala, iOS, and UI. Asad is eager to meet challenges and quickly assimilate the latest technologies, skills, concepts, and ideas.