Saif Ellafi
Product Manager, AI ML & Data Applications
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSaif Ellafi is a product manager specializing in AI, ML and data applications with nine years of experience designing and shipping cloud-native analytics and machine learning solutions across manufacturing, autonomous driving, finance, and healthcare domains. He leads a team of cloud solution architects at BSH, building reusable, production-ready data platforms that balance reliability and operational efficiency. Previously he architected large-scale data pipelines and real-time systems for clients like BMW and Fiat-Chrysler, and contributed backend and DevOps work to the widely used JohnSnowLabs spark-nlp project. Saif blends hands-on engineering in Scala, Python, and cloud IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation) with product leadership, ensuring models and pipelines move smoothly from research to production. With an economics background and early experience in HFT performance tooling and financial systems, he has a strong sense for metrics-driven decision making and system performance trade-offs. Based in Germany, he is also an active open-source contributor focused on build, packaging and deployment improvements for ML infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Estudiante, Liciatura en EconomĂa, Estudiante, Liciatura en EconomĂa at Universidad de Buenos Aires
English
Github Skills (7)
sbt10
spark10
scala10
devops9
natural-language-processing8
documentation7
python4
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
JohnSnowLabs/spark-nlp
Apr 2017 - Oct 2020
State of the Art Natural Language Processing
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:50 releases, 3014 commits, 686 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Saif primarily contributed to the build and deployment infrastructure of the project. They modified the `build.sbt` file and related configurations, integrating the `sbt-spark-package` plugin and adjusting dependencies. Furthermore, the user implemented changes related to copying assembled JAR files, suggesting involvement in packaging and distribution. The user also updated documentation.
xlnetbertlanguage-processingstate-of-the-artsentiment-analysis
saif-ellafi/foundryvtt-actor-link-indicator
Nov 2021 - Jun 2024
Contributions:6 releases, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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