Yousef Ahmad
Asst. VP, Model Lifecycle Optimization
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolYousef Ahmad is an analytics-driven data scientist and emerging leader with 10 years of experience building and operationalizing predictive models across consumer finance at Synchrony. Currently Asst. VP for Model Lifecycle Optimization, he combines hands-on modeling, model risk management, and product analytics experience developed through a selective rotational BLP and successive roles advancing to lifecycle ownership. A University of Illinois CS-adjacent grad with training in econometrics, applied statistics, and informatics, he has a track record of translating large-scale campaign and transactional data into high-impact decisioning models and dashboards. He’s led small R&D teams (including blockchain sandboxing for decentralized warehousing) and mentored hiring as part of Synchrony’s recruitment committee, showing an appetite for technical leadership beyond pure modeling. Notably, he was repeatedly chosen for competitive programs and extended internships—evidence of both technical skill and consistent business impact.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Econometrics and Quantitative Economics, Minor: Applied Statistics, Informatics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Econometrics and Quantitative Economics, Minor: Applied Statistics, Informatics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Arabic, Spanish
Github Skills (64)
api-authentication10
javascript-client9
mongoose9
sdk9
member9
tracks9
react8
sustainability8
mern8
raven8
google-api8
expressjs8
javascript7
spotify-api7
desktop7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hack4impact-uiuc/kids-save-ocean
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
A sustainability project accelerator 🚀
Contributions:75 commits, 89 PRs, 183 pushes in 6 months
sustainabilityacceleratorenvironment
hack4impact-uiuc/mern-template
Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
A starting repository for setting up a MERN project
Contributions:3 reviews, 15 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 1 month
reactsettingexpressjsexpressmern
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.