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Mohammed Affan

Software Engineer

New York, New York, United States5 yrs 7 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led a team to innovate ML applications.
  • Achieved 10000% increase in job execution capacity.
  • Contributed to Theano with significant performance improvements.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning Engineer with a strong focus on Cloud Computing and Software Development.

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Skills

Core Skills

BlockchainSoftware DevelopmentMachine LearningCloud Computing

Other Skills

AI Platform DevelopmentAWSAlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceArtificial Neural NetworksAudio Pipeline DevelopmentCC#C++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Cloud SolutionsCommunicationComputer VisionData EngineeringData Science

About

I am a software engineer at Arena, an startup focusing on ML applications in the CPG and manufacturing space. I have a master's degree in computer science from NYU, where I developed a passion for machine learning and distributed systems. I am deeply passionate about harnessing my knowledge in Machine Learning and Cloud Computing to innovate and build cutting-edge, scalable products from the ground up, ensuring they deliver substantial value to customers. My drive is fueled in collaborative, diverse environments where I can continuously engage with new technologies and industry domains. I am particularly invigorated by the challenge of creating something entirely novel, aspiring to not only contribute significantly to my field. My ambition is to explore uncharted territories in computer science, applying my skills to forge new paths and achieve notable breakthroughs.

Experience

Dydx

Software Engineer

Mar 2024Dec 2024 · 9 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Led team to deliver affiliates features for the protocol, indexer and front-end
  • Redesigned revenue sharing mechanism at protocol to be transparently shared across multiple recipients
  • Implemented social features including username generation and leaderboards
  • Enabled Cosmwasm on dYdX and worked with 3rd parties to provide functionality for integrating their contracts
cosmos sdkBlockchainGo (Programming Language)Rust (Programming Language)cosmwasmSoftware Development

Arena

Software Engineer

Apr 2022Feb 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Tech lead for the promotions team, leading a team for 5 people comprised of engineers and machine learning scientists.
  • Extended the machine learning platform by creating a job execution service which increased number of jobs which can be run at
  • a time by 10000%.
  • Data engineered and deployed several ML models giving personalized recommendations to millions of users in several countries
  • Re-engineered critical machine learning pipelines using AWS step functions which reduced time by 50% and cost by 90%.
  • Led effort to implement a pricing engine which uses reinforcement learning to update client prices for the customer.
  • Led effort and designed integration points with external partners along multiple channels.
  • Managed internal and external stakeholders to align on business outcomes and designed systems to achieve those outcomes.
Machine LearningSoftware DevelopmentAWSData EngineeringReinforcement LearningCloud Computing

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2020Apr 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Worked for the Alexa for PC UWP app and another undisclosed Alexa application.
  • Developed and tested cloud solutions enabling the team to turn on/off app features remotely.
  • Led effort to completely revamp core orchestration of Alexa UWP app. Provided technical direction and overall designs which
  • were reviewed and approved by five teams across two sub organizations.
  • Revamped the entire audio input mechanism for Alexa UWP app which led to decrease in User Perceived Latency (UPL) by up to 50%.
  • Designed and developed audio pipeline for a new Alexa application which multiple partners are going to utilize.
  • Mentored and evaluated intern to successful completion of project.
Software DevelopmentCloud SolutionsTechnical DirectionAudio Pipeline DevelopmentCloud Computing

Md.ai

Software Engineer Intern

Feb 2020May 2020 · 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Built features for machine learning model training, testing, and inference on the company's medical imaging AI platform.
  • Designed and developed the machine learning model deployment framework, allowing users to deploy models on the platform
  • Collaborated with partners to integrate their machine learning models with the AI platform.
Machine LearningAI Platform Development

New york university

3 roles

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sep 2019Feb 2020 · 5 mos · Greater New York City Area

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Jan 2019May 2019 · 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

Graduate Research Assistant

Jan 2019May 2019 · 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern

May 2019Aug 2019 · 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Interned for the Alexa for PC team
  • Designed, developed and tested grouping of smart home devices and controlling those groups for the Alexa PC UWP app using C# and XAML.
  • Efficiently synced cloud data with the app and implemented CRUD operations.
  • Designed UI for the features and linked it with the logic using MVVM pattern to create a smooth user experience.
  • This feature was then subsequently released in production and used by millions of users
C#XAMLUI DesignSoftware Development

Google summer of code

Student Developer

May 2017Aug 2017 · 3 mos · Remote

  • Contributed to Theano, which is a Python library that allows you to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficiently.
  • Achieved a speedup of 40% on GEMM convolution implementations by implementing several optimizers and completely overhauling the outdated Meta-optimizer.
  • Developed and tested forward and backward passes for 2D and 3D grouped Convolutions. Each operation was implemented for both the CPU and GPU using Python, C++, CUDA and CUDNN.
  • Analyzed the source code/conventions of TensorFlow, Caffe and Torch to ensure maximum cross compatibility.
  • Implemented and tested 2D and 3D Separable Convolutions.
  • 17 pull requests, 180+ commits and 4000+ lines of code contributed.

Education

New York University

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Jan 2018Jan 2020

Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, BANGALORE

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2014Jan 2018

JAIN College

Science

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Sri aurobindo memorial School

High School

Jan 2000Jan 2012

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