Asjad K
Data Scientist
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAsjad K is a data scientist with 12 years of experience bridging academic rigor and product-focused engineering, currently based in Sydney and working at UNSW while mentoring entrepreneurs at Catalysr. He holds advanced degrees in computer science and a PhD in Applied Machine Learning, and his career spans research (Decision Systems Lab), industry data science roles, and early software engineering positions. Asjad contributes to open-source blockchain tooling—adding user-count and profile search capabilities to the Stacks core implementation—demonstrating hands-on backend experience with distributed systems. He excels at deconstructing complex problems into implementable analytics and search solutions, and brings a rare mix of doctoral-level ML expertise and pragmatic product delivery. Colleagues describe him as curiosity-driven and effective at turning novel research ideas into production-ready features.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and TechnologyPh.D., Applied Machine Learning, Ph.D., Applied Machine Learning at University of Wollongong
Urdu, English
Github Skills (21)
python10
apidoc10
api10
blockchain10
flask-ask9
mongodb-database9
flask9
mongodb9
elasticsearch8
elasticsearch-api8
elasticsearchquery8
aws-elasticsearch8
decentralization8
amazon-elasticsearch8
restful-api7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stacks-network/stacks-core
Apr 2014 - Feb 2015
The Stacks blockchain implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Asjad implemented features related to retrieving user counts and indexing/searching user profiles within the Stacks blockchain implementation. They added a function to retrieve the total active user count and integrated it into a user count API endpoint. Furthermore, the user modified and added search indexing functionalities, focusing on onename profiles and adding the ability to search by user bio.
appsblockstackdnsrustserverless
asjad99/Yanga
Aug 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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