Ekhtiar Syed is a data science and engineering leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as Chief Product Owner - Data Service at ASML where he leads a small team to build production data-driven services. He holds a distinction-awarded Master's in Computer Science from the University of Stuttgart (funded by an EU flagship scholarship) and began his career in big data and ML roles at ING, Philips Lighting, and ASML. Ekhtiar blends hands-on expertise in machine learning, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure with product ownership, teaching part-time at JADS on Data and ML Engineering. Outside work he co-chairs PyData Eindhoven, co-founded an academic meetup (Open-DSE), and actively supports the open-source community—demonstrating a commitment to knowledge-sharing as well as delivery.
11 years of coding experience
BSc Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, BSc Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering at North South University
NCEA Level 3, NCEA Level 2, NCEA Level 1, NCEA Level 3, NCEA Level 2, NCEA Level 1 at Mount Albert Grammar School
Master's Degree, Master's Degree at University of Stuttgart
Contributions:17 commits, 6 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 8 months
spark-mlbig-datasparkfeature-storemapreduce
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