Shakeel Raja
Global Director Data And Artificial Intelligence
Pakistan
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Top SchoolShakeel Raja is a Global Director of Data and Artificial Intelligence with nine years of hands-on experience building end-to-end AI products, data platforms, and engineering teams across industry and government. He blends deep technical expertise in machine learning, deep learning, data engineering and cloud orchestration with a strong background in curriculum design and workforce upskilling from roles at Flatiron School and City, University of London. At TechGenies he shapes enterprise AI strategy and delivery across 12 countries, and previously led talent-intelligence and agentic-AI initiatives as Principal Data Scientist at TalentEdgeAI. His career includes applied analytics for public-sector pandemic response, real-time IoT analytics for telecommunication infrastructure, and production ML for hospitality pricing—demonstrating an ability to move research ideas into operational systems. Notably, he pairs academic rigor (MSc Distinction in Data Science/AI) with practical teaching and consulting experience, making him equally comfortable mentoring teams or architecting large-scale solutions. Based in Pakistan, he is focused on embedding measurable business impact through applied AI and capability building across distributed organisations.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Education (Cert. Ed.), Higher Education/Higher Education Administration, Certificate in Education (Cert. Ed.), Higher Education/Higher Education Administration at London Metropolitan UniversityMSc in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Distinction, MSc in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Distinction at City, University of LondonMSc, Manufacturing Information Systems, MSc, Manufacturing Information Systems at Coventry University
Urdu, Punjabi, English, pothohariProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ShakeelRaja/python-for-loops-lab-data-science-alpha
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:82 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
ShakeelRaja/Structured-Augmented-LSTM
Feb 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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