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Fahad Altaf

@fahadaltaf1

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Principal Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and production-grade generative AI.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior technical role where I can lead ML strategy and teams, build production-grade MLOps, and deliver measurable business impact in a collaborative, compliance-focused environment.

I am a Principal Machine Learning Engineer with 11+ years of experience delivering enterprise-scale solutions across NLP, computer vision, deep learning, and generative AI. I build and optimize cloud-native ML platforms, deploy production-ready models, and apply advanced methods—transformers, GNNs, and explainable AI—to solve high-impact business challenges.

I lead technical teams, define AI strategy, and mentor engineers to raise organizational ML maturity while ensuring scalable, reliable, and compliant systems. My work has reduced time-to-market for ML features, cut deployment cycles dramatically, improved model performance and latency, and established governance for fairness, monitoring, and explainability.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Principal Machine Learning Engineer

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Sparq

Jun 2022 - Present (3 years 4 months)

Architected enterprise-scale ML platforms processing millions of daily transactions, reducing time-to-market for ML features by 35% and establishing monitoring, fairness, and explainability governance.

MLOps Transformers Model Monitoring Explainable AI Mentorship

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Ispectra

Jul 2019 - May 2022 (2 years 10 months)

Designed and deployed ML models improving predictive accuracy by 20%, streamlined CI/CD model pipelines to cut deployment cycles from weeks to days, and improved inference latency by 40% via model compression.

Hyperparameter Tuning Model Compression CI CD Monitoring Python

Data Scientist

Centaur Labs

Mar 2017 - Jun 2019 (2 years 3 months)

Developed predictive and prescriptive models from large-scale datasets to improve forecasting, personalization, and anomaly detection, and delivered interactive dashboards to increase stakeholder trust.

Statistical Modeling Python R SQL A B Testing Data Visualization

AI/ML Associate Engineer

12C Inc.

Jun 2014 - Feb 2017 (2 years 8 months)

Prepared datasets and automated preprocessing pipelines reducing manual effort by 25%, prototyped baseline ML models, and contributed to reproducible workflows and model evaluation practices.