Hashem Alsaket is a Principal AI/ML Engineer based in New York with seven years of experience building and operationalizing advanced machine learning systems across startups and enterprise teams. He has held leadership roles at SumerSports and SumerBrain where his work is credited with disrupting a $163 billion industry, and he currently splits time between product-driven engineering and stealth research. His background includes roles at Nielsen—where he contributed to sound recognition work with multiple patents—and hands-on software engineering at UnitedHealth and other research labs, giving him a rare blend of applied research and production-grade delivery. Educated in AI/ML and statistics through Northwestern and the University of Illinois system, he pairs strong theoretical foundations with a track record of shipping models that scale in complex identity, signal-processing, and recommendation domains.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Studies Complex Analysis Computational Statistics Statistical Theory Probability Theory, Graduate Studies Complex Analysis Computational Statistics Statistical Theory Probability Theory at University of Illinois Chicago
Master of Science - MS AI/ML, Master of Science - MS AI/ML at Northwestern University
Machine Learning Visiting Graduate Student, Machine Learning Visiting Graduate Student at University of Chicago
Open-source tools for prompt testing and experimentation, with support for both LLMs (e.g. OpenAI, LLaMA) and vector databases (e.g. Chroma, Weaviate).
Contributions:1 PR, 43 pushes, 9 branches in 9 months
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Hashem Alsaket - Principal AI ML Engineer at SumerSports