Sheik Dawood
Founding Machine Learning Engineer at Vinci4D.ai
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSheik Dawood is a founding machine learning engineer with 12 years of experience building production-ready deep learning systems and research prototypes across startups and large tech companies. He blends hands-on expertise in Python/PyTorch and C++ with applied research in 3D computer vision, generative AI, and reinforcement learning, delivering solutions from 0 to 1 in small, fast-moving teams. His recent roles span automating VFX at Amazon, foundation-model research for cybersecurity at CrowdStrike, and launching Vinci4D.ai to commercialize ML-driven 3D workflows. He has a strong academic foundation from Purdue where he developed novel generative models (VAE + Neural ODE) for conditional compound generation and earlier work optimizing neural nets for FPGA inference. Based in Palo Alto, he thrives at the intersection of research and production engineering, often turning complex vision and geometry problems into practical, deployable systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering at Purdue University
English, Tamil
Github Skills (69)
docker8
rancher7
shapes7
feature-matching7
finance7
html5-canvas7
image-matching6
orchestration6
charting6
charts6
robotics6
javascript6
lightweight-charts6
typescript6
canvas6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dawood95/Purdue-ECE264
Aug 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:3 commits in 1 year 6 months
dawood95/mips-processor
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:94 commits, 1 comment in 3 months
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