Omar Kaheel
Data Scientist
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Kaheel is a data scientist with eight years of experience applying machine learning and analytics to renewable energy, sustainability, and atmospheric science problems. Based in Seattle, he currently builds energy market forecasting models at Ascend Analytics and has prototyped portfolio simulators, emissions estimators, and price-forecasting tools for ERCOT, CAISO, and MISO. His background spans academic research in collaborative AI and robotics, automating large-scale field-campaign reporting at NCAR, and mentoring hundreds of student founders on commercialization and product strategy. Omar blends hands-on engineering—Python, TensorFlow, ROS, and cloud tooling—with domain expertise in power markets and policy modelling, and often frames technical work to inform commercial decisions and policy outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
English, Arabic, French
Stackoverflow
11reputation
26reached
0answers
1question
Github Skills (6)
machine-learning6
hash6
imputation6
python6
scikit-learn6
search-engine4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
okaheel/Interactive-Heatmap
Dec 2019 - Sep 2021
Interactive Heatmap that shows data sets
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
pythondata-setsheatmap
okaheel/dash-cgd-prod
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
This repository supports the NCAR DASH Search system.
Contributions:6 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
search-enginedashsearchncar
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