Haitham Seelawi
Machine Learning Engineer III at Speakly
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHaitham Seelawi is a Machine Learning Engineer III with 11 years of hands-on experience and a 15-year career arc in data science and ML, specialising in NLP and Generative AI across startups, scale-ups and defence. He builds production-grade ML systems end-to-end—from model research and optimisation (quantisation, ONNX) to scalable serving and MLOps—and has driven multimodal and LLM architectures used by clients such as Microsoft, OpenAI and the UK Ministry of Defence. As a technical leader he has repeatedly scaled teams and capabilities (hiring, mentoring, training workshops) and delivered measurable impact, including seven-figure cost savings from on-prem translation and streamlined RAG pipelines. He pairs deep technical fluency with product sense, translating C-level roadmaps into pragmatic architectures like serverless ML pipelines, Ray Serve endpoints and vector-backed lakehouse designs. Notably, his work has enabled startup exits and enterprise adoption by re-architecting latency-critical NLP services (9x throughput, 80% latency reduction) for enterprise moderation use cases. He is targeting Principal/Staff or senior engineering management roles where strategic vision and hands-on delivery intersect.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Science technology and innovation policy, Master of Science (MS) Science technology and innovation policy at The University of Manchester
English, Arabic
Github Skills (79)
python10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
nlp9
optuna9
deep-learning9
representations9
crf9
optimization9
cython9
hyperparameters9
turkish9
data-science9
text-classification9
tensorflow9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Alue-Benchmark/alue_baselines
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
Repo for reproducing ALUE benchmark baselines
Contributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 months
benchmarkbaselinesbenchmarksbenchmarking
hseelawi/projcet3-udacity-mlops
May 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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