Talha Yaqoob
Machine Learning Engineer at Al Jazeera Media Network
Doha, Qatar
Summary
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Top SchoolTalha Yaqoob is a Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of experience building production-grade AI systems across media, healthcare, fintech, and e-commerce. He has led end-to-end ML projects—from recommendation engines and real-time data pipelines to RAG systems and multi-agent sales intelligence platforms—combining models, MLOps, and cloud automation (Terraform, Docker, AWS). At Futureproof Labs he architected a Claude-powered analytics platform and shipped LinkedIn content-generation and AI tool suites, and he now applies similar ML-driven storytelling at Al Jazeera. His background spans computer vision (YOLO, OCR, Rekognition), NLP (NER, LLMs, retrieval augmentation), and scalable analytics with Spark and Kafka. Based in Doha, Talha pairs hands-on model engineering with pragmatic product focus, often translating noisy real-world data into actionable business insights. Notably, he has experience synthesizing images and real-time character movement using advanced generative and pose models, reflecting a breadth that crosses both vision and language.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
datascientist Data science, datascientist Data science at Dice analytics Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at COMSATS Institute of Information and Technology
Github Skills (12)
video-editing9
tkinter4
object-detection3
classification3
face-recognition3
tensorflow3
tflite2
yolov52
yolov42
tensorrt2
multi-object-tracking1
opencv1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
TalhaaaYaqoob/customer-churn-predictionn
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
TalhaaaYaqoob/Korean-Number-Plate-Recognition-using-yolo-V4
May 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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