Summary
Mahtab Syed is a data, machine learning, and AI leader and cloud architect with two decades of experience delivering scalable data and AI solutions across financial services, healthcare, and research in Australia. She currently leads the Data, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence - Practice, Architecture and Delivery at UST, guiding consulting, pre-sales, solution design and multi-cloud deployments on Azure, AWS and GCP to solve business problems. Previously at LAB3, she led a ~30-person engineering team delivering end-to-end data and AI programs, including data assessment, data architecture, platforms, data migration, data science, ML and MLOps. Her career also spans strategic program leadership at NAB, ANZ and Societe Generale, including cloud-native re-architecture, managing budgets up to AUD 65 million, growing teams from a handful to over a hundred, and delivering risk, compliance and finance technology solutions. Based in Melbourne, Mahtab combines governance with hands-on delivery to turn data and AI strategies into reliable, auditable production systems, including leading data infrastructure and ML initiatives for the GenV program at Murdoch Children's Research Institute.
11 years of coding experience