Aamir Syed
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple
Singapore, Singapore
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Top SchoolAamir Syed is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of hands-on expertise in applied NLP and generative AI, now driving ICT4-focused NLP work at Apple in Singapore. He has repeatedly built production-ready, cost-efficient ML systems—from sharded text clustering and few-shot entity recognition to in-house fine-tuned SLMs that cut costs by over 50%—and led ML teams as a founding engineer at Graphene AI. His strengths span information retrieval, RAG/agentic architectures, scalable microservices, and practical multimodal pipelines, with a knack for turning prototype research into reliable products. An active mentor in competitive coding and hackathons (Smart India, UNESCO India-Africa), he blends technical leadership with community building. Notably, he engineered a memory-efficient short-text clustering approach ('Blitz Clustering') and routing-enabled agentic RAGs that reflect his emphasis on pragmatic, data-first AI.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at Ramaiah Institute Of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at National University of Singapore
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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5kreached
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Github Skills (60)
sentence-embeddings10
topic-models10
topic-modeling10
nlp10
tf-idf10
information-gathering9
transformers9
machine-learning9
bert9
discovery9
python8
natural-language-processing8
blueteam8
coreference-resolution8
coreference8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Viole-Grace/AdNAN
Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
Viole-Grace/Movie_Recommendation_System
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
A Python-based Program that recommends movies based on Emotion
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 24 days
pythonemotionmoviesflaskmachine-learning
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