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Qamar Zia

@qamarzia

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Senior AI and data science leader delivering production ML, agentic AI assistants, and analytics solutions.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior roles where I can design and ship production AI/ML systems, lead small teams, drive pre-sales solutioning, and collaborate with engineering to scale agentic AI and analytics in finance or healthcare.

I am a senior AI and data science professional who designs and ships production ML systems, agentic AI assistants, and vision/NER pipelines to extract actionable insights from unstructured data. I have delivered banking analytics (churn, RFM segmentation, cash optimization), healthcare forecasting and classification models, and integrated LLMs into product workflows.

In advisory and consulting roles I built research analytics for sovereign bonds and FX using Bloomberg BQL/BQuant and Macrobond, developed interactive Dash apps for analysts and PMs, and orchestrated Airflow ETL pipelines and backtesting/forecasting frameworks. I collaborate closely with engineering to productionize notebooks, deploy telephony chatbots and Microsoft Teams integrations, and establish MLOps practices including model registries and monitoring.

I combine domain experience in financial services and healthcare with strong engineering and leadership skills—leading small teams, driving pre-sales and solution architecture, and mentoring junior contributors. I hold certifications from IBM and Microsoft and have earned multiple digital badges across Data Science, GenAI, Azure ML, Watsonx, and MLOps.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior AI Consultant

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ReportEQ

Mar 2024 - Present (1 year 8 months)

Convert leads into clients and scope end-to-end AI engagements, architecting and deploying LLM integrations and telephony chatbots with Microsoft Teams while delivering Vision OCR and Document NER pipelines for accurate data extraction.

LLM Vision OCR Microsoft Teams Python MLOps Pre Sales

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Senior Data Scientist

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Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

Nov 2022 - Present (3 years)

Built research analytics and interactive Dash apps for sovereign bonds, FX and developed markets, orchestrated Airflow ETL pipelines ingesting BQL/Macrobond data, and implemented backtesting and forecasting frameworks to support PMs and research teams.

BQuant Dash Apache Airflow Backtesting Frameworks Python Data Engineering

Data Scientist

TenX

Jan 2022 - Mar 2024 (2 years 2 months)

Led delivery of banking analytics, managed a team of 4, and built end-to-end customer analytics including deposit and credit-card churn models, RFM segmentation, and cash optimization forecasts to improve retention and reduce logistics cost.

Churn Modeling Model Monitoring Python ML Engineering

Associate Data Scientist

Cube Healthcare Systems

Sep 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 3 months)

Owned end-to-end ML for revenue cycle use cases, delivered a claim denial prediction system from ingestion to deployed REST API, and implemented production monitoring to improve reliability and latency.

ETL SQL Python REST APIs Model Monitoring Dashboards Mentoring

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

COMSATS University Islamabad

Bachelor of Science, Computer Sciences

2015 - 2019

Activities and societies: Final Year Project: Emotiv EEG-based smart-home light control (EEG feature engineering, pattern-matching, Arduino integration).

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Sciences with a final-year project using Emotiv EEG signals to control a smart-home light via feature engineering and Arduino integration.