Sajid Alam
Senior Software Engineer I at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSajid Alam is a Senior Software Engineer at QuantumBlack (AI by McKinsey) with four years of experience building production-ready AI and data engineering platforms. He is a core maintainer of Kedro, contributing backend, CLI and CI/CD improvements that make the project enterprise-ready and more scalable across multi-cloud environments. Comfortable across the full stack, Sajid blends Python backend engineering with React frontend design, cloud-native infrastructure, and performance optimisation to deliver maintainable pipelines. He progressed from a QuantumBlack scholarship recipient to a senior role, reflecting a strong mix of technical delivery and community leadership through mentorship and open-source stewardship. Currently exploring agentic AIs, RAGs and MCP servers, he seeks projects that bridge cutting-edge AI research with robust, enterprise software practices. Based in London, he combines rigorous academic training in AI with hands-on experience shipping cloud-integrated tooling used broadly in data science teams.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Edmonton County SchoolMaster's degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence at Queen Mary University of London
Bengali, English
Github Skills (9)
kedro10
python10
pipeline10
cli10
pytest9
testing9
mlops9
cd8
cicd8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kedro-org/kedro
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Kedro is a toolbox for production-ready data science. It uses software engineering best practices to help you create data engineering and data science pipelines that are reproducible, maintainable, and modular.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 389 reviews, 75 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Sajid contributed to the improvement of the Kedro codebase. They worked on features related to the Kedro CLI, specifically around config file handling and pipeline imports for IPython/Jupyter. The user also implemented changes to the codebase related to micro packaging and the CI/CD.
experiment-trackingpythonsciencepipelinedata-science
SajidAlamQB/kedro-plugins
May 2023 - May 2023
First-party plugins maintained by the Kedro team.
Contributions:15 releases, 64 PRs, 107 pushes in 14 days
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