Summary
Thariq Khalid is a Senior Manager in Computer Vision with nine years of focused experience building large vision foundation models and applied deep learning systems from research to production. Based in Riyadh, he has progressed through technical and leadership roles at Elm Company—rising from Data Scientist to Principal Research Scientist and now leading the computer vision organization—after earlier ML and NLP work at Versé, Blueocean, Target and Samsung. His background blends computer vision, NLP and data science, including practical projects like online handwriting recognition for Arabic, Hindi and Farsi, which reflects a strong cross-lingual and multimodal expertise. Thariq combines hands-on model development with team leadership and product delivery, routinely translating research prototypes into enterprise solutions. Notably, his career demonstrates both deep research instincts and long-term operational ownership of ML systems in production.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Engineer's Degree, Computer Engineering, Engineer's Degree, Computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology Calicut
Arabic, English