Omar Reid
AI Engineer at Boston Globe Media
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolOmar Reid is an AI Engineer with 10 years of experience building production ML and backend systems across startups and media organizations, currently accelerating AI innovation at Boston Globe Media. He has led engineering teams from first hire to CTO, shipped a Class 1 medical device therapy app, and founded a profitable AI agency that delivered a $1M+ revenue uplift for an esports client in two weeks. Technical strengths span NLP, computer vision, scalable Python backends, Kubernetes, and LLM integrations—demonstrated by work improving OCR by 50% and building private PyPI and insights pipelines. Omar pairs hands-on prototyping (document-reading APIs, chatbot MVPs, AI assistants) with product-focused deployment, translating complex models into newsroom and business value. He’s also an active writer on ML career and technical topics, blending entrepreneurial judgment with measurable engineering outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of BathMathematics Chemistry and Physics, Mathematics Chemistry and Physics at Archbishop Tenison's CE High SchoolGCSE's, GCSE's at Archbishop Lanfranc School
English, Japanese, jamaican creole
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Github Skills (52)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
reido2012/JapaneseArticleScraper
Feb 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
reido2012/VirtualKitchen
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:17 PRs, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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