Tarek Amr
Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Adyen
Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolTarek Amr is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist with 13 years of experience who transitioned from a nine-year career in network and security engineering into machine learning after earning an MSc in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. He has led ML teams and productionized models across marketplaces and auction platforms—building recommendation systems that doubled conversion at TicketSwap and models that reduced fraud and increased sales at Catawiki. A pragmatic tinkerer, he pairs strong ML expertise with full-stack web development skills (Python, Ruby on Rails) and has authored books on D3.js and Scikit-Learn, reflecting his emphasis on explainable models and visualization. Based in Haarlem, he blends product-focused experimentation with engineering discipline and maintains wide curiosity across behavioral economics and blockchain, often surfacing cross-domain insights that improve model impact.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
General Secondary Education, General Secondary Education at Dar El TarbiyaBSc., Electronics & Communications, BSc., Electronics & Communications at Cairo UniversityMaster of Science (MSc), Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Distinction, Master of Science (MSc), Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Distinction at University of East Anglia
English, Arabic, Spanish, Dutch, French
Github Skills (44)
wikimedia10
italia10
unsupervised-machine-learning9
python9
machine-learning9
machine-learning-algorithms9
scikit-learn9
toolkits9
amr9
scikit8
open-data8
data-science8
arff7
merge6
structures6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gr33ndata/5atma
Jul 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:44 commits, 1 push in 10 months
gr33ndata/corpus-esaren
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 13 days
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