Saheel Ahmed

Experience

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  Atlan

  Oct 2018 - Nov 2018

  Data Science Intern

  ■ Worked as a data science intern with the analytics team, where I focused on data ingestion and exploration.■ Investigated location data across 600+ districts, employing Python scripts for standardization and integration.■ Developed web scrapers to ensure ongoing data retrieval from the client's API.

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  Blue Sky Analytics

  Feb 2019 - now

  ■ Led a team of 5 data scientists, delivering 10+ global datasets for climate risk, carbon markets, and asset monitoring.■ Achieved a 50% increase in team velocity within the first 6 months of assuming the role, optimizing operations and expediting project delivery.■ Fostered collaboration across 3 teams of 15 members, prioritizing technical debt reduction, milestone planning, and monthly sprints.■ Reported directly to the CTO and oversaw end-to-end data research and development operations.■ Acted as a liaison between client requirements and development strategies.■ Played a pivotal role in the hiring process, conducting technical interviews for data scientists.■ Slashed the research-to-development turnaround time by 50% through enhanced task context. Show less ■ Served as an IC with a primary role in dataset development and deployment using climate and satellite data in combination with machine learning.■ Spearheaded the creation of an Inference system, overseeing code and infrastructure for 10+ datasets.■ Contributed to the development of global datasets addressing critical climate change concerns, including air pollution, carbon emissions and sequestration from forest and crop fires, fire forecasting, quantification of surface water extent and quality, and the assessment of drought and floods through groundwater depletion and river water level forecasting.■ Conducted comprehensive research, literature reviews, result comparisons against ground truth and similar projects, presenting findings to domain experts from institutions such as IIT Delhi, NASA, ECMWF and JSC. Documented each aspect of the work and authored white papers and research papers detailing methodologies and results.■ Established a real-time validation metrics monitoring system for assessing prediction accuracy against ground truth.■ Led data engineering efforts, developing an AWS-based Geo-Services data pipeline for ETL processes from scratch. Designed and implemented the pipeline entirely in Python using the GDAL library, resulting in significantly improved data accuracy and a 100% increase in efficiency.■ Managed the daily processing of 500 GB of geospatial data, encompassing optical, SAR, and weather data while supporting 20+ geospatial functions. Ensured complete flexibility to handle various data formats and streamlined Lambda package management through containerization using Linux-based Docker images. Additionally, established CI/CD pipelines.■ Presented project achievements at notable venues such as FOSS4G 2022, IIT Delhi CERCA, ECMWF, ISRO NRSC, JSC Germany, and NASA. Show less

  • Data Lead

    Sept 2022 - now

  • Senior Data Scientist

    Aug 2020 - Aug 2022

  • Data Scientist

    Jul 2019 - Jul 2020

  • Data Science Intern

    Feb 2019 - Jun 2019