My name is Saif. I'm an accomplished product leader, quantitative platform developer, and ML practitioner who has consistently tackled tough, real-life problems and successfully delivered lasting platforms and solutions.

I'm especially good at balancing ground-level efforts with user interaction, stakeholder management, and organizational savvy to help deliver solutions which will be accepted and flourish in difficult enterprise settings. I have significant professional experience leading major strategic initiatives with complex quantitative/analytical components. I prefer being hands-on at least part of the time – analyzing data, prototyping solutions and working with teams on-the-ground.

Having done both Platform and Partner Engineering for over a decade, I bring deep ground-level experience instead of just applying theoretical enterprise architecture. Everything from evaluating components for correctness to facing Regulators to defend firm interests. My past work lives on -- at stock exchanges, global clearing facilities, banks, hedge funds, hospitals, and at US defense+intelligence facilities.

	sparks & honey	Chief Technology Officer SVP, Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC)
	Kinetica	Director of Engineering, ML Director of Developer Relations
	DocHuddle	Chief Technology Officer
	AIG Investments	Chief Quantitative Technologist Derivatives Quant Team Lead @ AIG FP Systems & Business Architect @ AIG Markets Front Office Developer (CDS & Rates)@ AIG Investments
	Goldman Sachs	Sr. Associate, Derivatives X-Technology
	Accenture	Sr. Consultant, NY Capital Markets Group

	UC Berkeley	M.S. Information and Data Science
	Cornell University	B.S. Computer Science
	The Rockefeller University	Summer Fellow SEED Fellow

• Bill Clinton Award for Academic Achievement
• Westinghouse Science Talent Search National Semifinalist
• Hal Varian Award winner for best graduate project: “DeepJams: ML Meets Music Composition”

	Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner