Summary
Ahmed Ali is a multidisciplinary engineer and data scientist based in Canada who blends more than a decade of industrial experience in oil, gas and power generation with extensive academic roles across multiple continents. As a licensed professional engineer and former senior engineer at TransAlta and Suncor, he led reliability programs, capital projects and RCFA investigations, while in industry roles he productized machine learning models and built end-to-end data science applications that dramatically improved performance. In academia he has over a decade teaching, curriculum design and supervision experience—mentoring graduate students to completion and publishing 20+ papers—complemented by a PhD in Computational Fluid Mechanics. Now teaching MBA courses and consulting as a data scientist, he uniquely translates deep engineering rigor into actionable ML solutions for business clients. An unusual strength is his track record of moving from large-scale physical systems design to millisecond-scale software optimizations, showing both systems-level thinking and hands-on model delivery.
6 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree, Machine Learning, Nanodegree, Machine Learning at Udacity
Data Engineer with Python - Career Track, Data Engineer with Python - Career Track at DataCamp
Vibration Analysis: CAT II, Vibration Analysis: CAT II at Mobius Institute
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Cairo University
Diploma of Applied Data Science and Big Data, Diploma of Applied Data Science and Big Data at WeCloudData
Ph.D., Computational Fluid Mechanics, Ph.D., Computational Fluid Mechanics at Loughborough University
High School Diploma, Sciences, High School Diploma, Sciences at Althaghr Secondary School
Arabic