Asif Imran
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer at NextRoll, Inc.
Kansas City, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAsif Imran is a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer and PhD-trained scientist with 11 years of experience turning ML research into production at scale, primarily in advertising and recommendation systems. He has led teams at NextRoll to build real-time bidding, multi-modal recommendation and contextual bandit systems that improved CTR by double digits while serving millions of daily predictions. His background in high-energy astrophysics and large-scale data acquisition informs a rigorous approach to causal inference, A/B experimentation, and low-latency MLOps pipelines. Beyond ads, he has contributed data-science tooling and interactive visualizations—such as a COVID-19 dashboard mapping state-level cases—demonstrating hands-on data engineering and visualization skills. Based in Kansas City and open to remote roles, he combines deep research experience with product-focused execution across distributed teams.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) High Energy Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) High Energy Astrophysics at Iowa State UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics at Grinnell College
Bengali, English
Github Skills (11)
vi10
data-visualizations10
pandas10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
altair10
python10
co10
covid-testing10
jupyter9
data-science9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
github/covid19-dashboard
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
A site that displays up to date COVID-19 stats, powered by fastpages.
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Asif contributed to the development of an interactive map visualizing confirmed COVID-19 cases in the US by state. Their work involved data manipulation using Pandas, creating interactive charts with Altair, and integrating geospatial data. The user also worked on cleaning and transforming the data from a CSV source. Furthermore, the user made revisions to the visualization, including making California the default state displayed.
nteractanalyticspythonreactdata-science
aimran-adroll/python-rocksdb
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Python bindings for RocksDB
Contributions:1 release, 47 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
python-bindingsrocksdb
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