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Ahmed Abid

@ahmedabid

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Staff Machine Learning Engineer driving scalable AI systems and MLOps across industries.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building and scaling production ML/AI systems with strong MLOps, cross-functional collaboration, technical leadership, and opportunities to influence architecture and governance.

I am a Staff Machine Learning Software Engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and building scalable machine learning and software systems across Healthcare, Intelligence, Technology, Finance, and Consulting.

I have 4+ years of technical leadership experience and a track record of turning proofs-of-concept into governed, production-ready AI services, including real-time streaming features, continuous learning pipelines, and observability solutions.

I've led ML infrastructure and MLOps practices, advised clients on ML maturity and build-vs-buy decisions, and taught Mining Big Data topics such as Spark, NoSQL, and distributed systems as an adjunct faculty instructor.

My work emphasizes architecture best practices, deployment automation, and cross-functional collaboration to reduce time-to-production, improve model reliability, and deliver measurable business value.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Staff Machine Learning Engineer

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ServiceNow

Oct 2024 - Present (1 year)

Building AI agents to forecast customer risk, benchmark performance, and surface account health insights; established modular AI service architecture and operational best practices for audit-ready deployments.

Terraform Snowflake Azure Kubernetes Kafka Databricks Spark MLOps

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Adjunct Faculty Instructor

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DePaul University

Apr 2024 - Present (1 year 6 months)

Instructing 'Mining Big Data' covering Hadoop, Hive, Spark, NoSQL, streaming systems, Linux, and distributed systems to graduate and undergraduate engineers.

Hadoop Spark Kafka Flink NoSQL Distributed Systems Linux Big Data

Lead Software Engineer

Logic20/20

Jun 2023 - Oct 2024 (1 year 4 months)

Led ML infrastructure and MLOps consulting practice, defined architecture standards, and delivered real-time streaming feature pipelines and production ML systems for forecasting, imagery, GenAI, and ranking.

AWS Kinesis Flink Terraform Snowflake Airflow Python Spark MLOps

Senior Software Engineer

ResMed

Aug 2021 - Jun 2023 (1 year 10 months)

Led design and delivery of a self-service ML platform supporting batch/real-time inference, continuous learning, and observability, reducing time-to-production and improving model reliability for global data science teams.

Terraform Airflow Snowflake AWS Sagemaker Python Spark Datadog Grafana

Senior Software Engineer

Circinus, LLC

Jan 2020 - Aug 2021 (1 year 7 months)

Led ML infrastructure design and continuous inference pipelines for NLP at scale, building ETL pipelines ingesting billions of records/hour and guiding data science teams on production deployments.

PyTorch TorchServe Docker Spark Terraform Airflow Elasticsearch MLFlow Sagemaker

Software Engineer

Circinus, LLC

Jul 2018 - Dec 2019 (1 year 5 months)

Built full-stack ML applications for topic modeling and network databases, accelerating analyst workflows from weeks to minutes and contributing to contract win supporting $100M/year.