Aziz Mustaqeem
Senior Data Scientist
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAziz Mustaqeem is a Senior Data Scientist with six years of experience blending rigorous mathematics and production-grade software engineering to solve complex data problems. Based in Old Toronto, he progressed from internships and junior roles at Health Canada and Robarts Research Institute to multiple data science positions at Capital One, now leading analytics initiatives as a Senior Data Scientist. His background in pure mathematics and computer science from the University of Waterloo informs a careful, model-driven approach to feature engineering and statistical validation. Aziz contributes to open-source database tooling—adding string-function optimizations, CLI improvements, and CSV/export fixes to the high-performance Kuzu graph database—demonstrating a knack for low-level backend reliability as well as applied ML. He’s comfortable shipping both research prototypes and production analytics, and has a pattern of turning academic insights into scalable data products. Colleagues value him for clear experimentation design, pragmatic coding, and improving developer-facing tooling that speeds team delivery.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Pure Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Pure Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
databases10
c-language10
strings10
f-string10
string-utils10
cprogramming-language10
cypher10
graph-database10
stringi10
database10
cli9
testing9
embeddable9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kuzudb/kuzu
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Embeddable property graph database management system built for query speed and scalability. Implements Cypher.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 46 commits, 33 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Aziz primarily contributed to the implementation of string functions within the Kuzu database, focusing on features such as suffix, left, and right operations. Their work included writing new code, fixing formatting issues, creating tests, and changing existing functions to use more efficient methods. The user also implemented CLI completion for node and relation tables and corrected issues with the shell's copy functionality and query processing. They further addressed EXPLAIN functionality and CSV export capabilities.
embedded-databaseproperty-graphcyphermanagement-systemgraph-databases
aziz-mu/gen_art
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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