Affan Syed
VP Of AI Engineering at Ignite - National Technology Fund
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
Summary
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Top SchoolAffan Syed is a VP of AI Engineering and seasoned technology leader with a decade of experience building cloud-native, big-data and IoT systems from research prototypes to commercial platforms. He has progressed through leadership roles at Emumba and AN10, architecting microservices-based IoT/IoE platforms and driving digital transformation for telco operations while scaling engineering and budgetary operations. His background blends academic rigor—a USC PhD and university research leadership—with hands-on product delivery in SDN/NFV, IoT, and data engineering, enabling him to bridge research, product and customer-facing engineering. As a national advisor on AI, Big Data and Cloud Computing panels, he shapes technology strategy at the country level in Pakistan. Known internally as an “architect-engineer” who admits to being “not enough coding” on GitHub, he nevertheless ships complex distributed systems and cultivates teams that operationalize advanced research. He brings a pragmatic, systems-first mindset to applying AI at scale, informed by both academic research and multi-cloud production experience.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, PhD at University of Southern CaliforniaBE, BE at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
Urdu
Github Skills (67)
ebpf10
bpf10
bcc10
monitoring10
linux10
networking10
python-client9
benchmark8
nearest-neighbors8
approximate8
semantic8
sink7
duplicates7
elasticsearch7
duplicity7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
affansyed/bpf-docs
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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