Parvez Ahammad
Director Of AI, QuickBooks Growth And Discovery at Intuit
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolParvez Ahammad is a Director of AI who builds and ships large-scale ML systems that move product and business metrics—most recently leading the AI transformation of QuickBooks for 50M+ small businesses. He has a rare blend of deep research (PhD from UC Berkeley, 20 granted patents, best-paper awards at KDD/WSDM/AAAI) and product-led execution across LinkedIn, TurboTax, and startups where he launched agentic AI experiences and core recommendation stacks. Parvez has repeatedly taken legacy rules-based systems to modern AI stacks, delivering measurable revenue and engagement wins while embedding privacy, fairness, and explainability into production. He hires for intellectual curiosity and customer obsession, cultivating teams whose combined impact outstrips expectations. Outside product work he has left durable technical artifacts—such as the Perceptual Speed Index later adopted in Chrome Lighthouse and open-source SalientWatersheds—underscoring a history of practical, widely used contributions. Based in Sunnyvale, he pairs academic rigor with operator instincts to scale ambitious AI programs end-to-end.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Osmania UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (23)
crowd9
benchmark8
exploratory8
large-scale7
timing7
scale7
ssim7
performance-tuning6
trace6
perf6
devtools4
stress-testing4
visualization3
mojolicious3
website-performance3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pahammad/SpeedPerception
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Perceived UX of Web Apps in the Wild : Benchmark data, exploratory analyses and insights from large-scale crowd sourcing
Contributions:70 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
benchmark-dataexploratoryanalyseswildscale
pahammad/visualmetrics
Jul 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:4 pushes in 10 months
incrementalspeedindexspeed-indexperformance-metrics
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