About

Mufeed Patel is an experienced Assistant Vice President - Data Scientist at Barclays with a passion for data science and a love for mathematics. He has worked on Deep Learning, AI, and Blockchain Technology, and is an expert in building intelligent machines. With almost 10 years of experience, Mufeed has a proven track record of driving and building scalable data-centric products and strategies, working on challenging data and scalability problems. Mufeed is proficient in Python and R for statistical analysis, prototyping analytics solutions, and building ML models, as well as Keras and PyTorch for building deep learning models on GPUs for recommender engines, vision, and NLP tasks. He is also skilled in advanced SQL and Excel for querying databases, quick charting, and making sense of data, as well as ElasticSearch and Grafana for dashboarding large volumes of data. Mufeed has experience with Apache Spark (Scala) for ETL, Apache Storm feature engineering on big datasets, and deep learning, as well as Spark, Hadoop, and Hive - Big Data Tools. He is also proficient in Tableau and Qlikview - Data visualizations tools, Apache Kafka and Spark – Real-time analytics on streaming data, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for cloud deployments. Mufeed's current role is as a Data Engineer at an American Healthcare company where he is redesigning the fulfillment process by leveraging Hive & Python for data understanding & analysis. He is using statistical tools for solving customer challenges, and has exposure to Multivariate Analysis Techniques (Linear & Logistic Regression, Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis, and Decision Tree Modelling) for data management exploratory analysis. Mufeed's past experience includes working as a Senior Data Scientist at Safecity, a non-profit based out of Mumbai, India which crowd maps data on gender-based harassment and uses innovative Data Analytics to combat it. He also worked as an Outreach Intern at Greenpeace, one of the world’s biggest NGOs, where he was responsible for coming up with an innovative activity/model for effective campaign awareness and success. In his leisure time, Mufeed enjoys swimming, playing basketball and chess, and is a curious reader of space sciences such as Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Astronomy. He is also a novice writer who loves reading fantasy fictions. Mufeed's personal website is mufeedpatel.com, and he is active on Twitter, GitHub, Kaggle,