Naumaan Nayyar
Senior Manager Of Applied Science at Amazon
Sammamish, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNaumaan Nayyar is a Senior Manager of Applied Science with 11+ years of experience building end-to-end ML and optimization solutions across industry and healthcare, currently leading science for Amazon’s people management products impacting 350K+ employees. He blends deep theoretical expertise—from PhD-level research in online learning, control and optimization—to pragmatic production delivery of GenAI, NLP, recommender and causal-inference systems at scale. A founder and former CTO in digital health, he has translated complex optimization problems into near real-time production pipelines and patented approaches for hospital operations. Naumaan also has a strong mentoring and teaching pedigree, having led interdisciplinary science teams, internal mentorship programs at Amazon, and taught data science courses at General Assembly. He’s comfortable moving between research, product strategy and large-scale engineering, and often invents domain-specific models (e.g., custom short-text embeddings and supervised group outlier techniques) that outperformed off-the-shelf baselines.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineeering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineeering at University of Southern CaliforniaNarayana Junior College, IndiaIndian Institute of Technology BombayInternational Indian School Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
English, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Telugu
Github Skills (27)
python10
mqtt9
automation9
privacy9
home-assistant9
iot9
home-automation9
jekyll9
raspberry-pi9
documentation8
garden8
asyncio8
internet-of-things7
macos6
addon6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gracej90/generalassembly_DS
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:32 commits in 2 months
naumz/oshpd
Mar 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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