Ahmed Dawod
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Shopify
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolAhmed Dawod is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience applying research-grade ML to product and healthcare problems, currently building ML systems at Shopify after senior roles at BenchSci and MarketMuse. He combines a Purdue MS in Computer Science with hands-on expertise across Python, C++, PHP and Visual Basic, and a track record of shipping models for diagnostics (ovarian cancer work) and content intelligence. Comfortable moving between research and production, he has repeatedly bridged academia and industry—from teaching and lab research to consulting and startup engineering. Based in Montreal, he brings entrepreneurial instincts from early freelance and founder work alongside deep practical experience scaling ML in commercial settings.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Elsayad High SchoolMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Purdue UniversityComputer Science Pre-Masters Computer Science, Computer Science Pre-Masters Computer Science at Mansoura University College of Computer Science
Arabic, English
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Github Skills (84)
python10
automation10
deep-learning10
orchestration10
scheduler10
nlp10
monitor10
predict10
data-science10
retrieval10
apache10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
data-engineering9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Ahmedn1/PyCrepe
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
benchsci/unsloth
May 2024 - May 2024
Finetune Llama 3, Mistral & Gemma LLMs 2-5x faster with 80% less memory
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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