Azhar Aga

Engineering Manager

Slough, England, United Kingdom21 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led AI platform development for insurance solutions.
Expert in MLOps and cloud architecture.
Strong background in embedded systems and software engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled Engineering Manager with expertise in AI, cloud solutions, and embedded systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

MlopsData Warehousing

Other Skills

TritonCross-Functional Team BuildingAI model deploymentCross-Functional CollaborationJavaScriptEmbedded SystemsLinuxSoftware DevelopmentFirmwareRTOSC++Embedded SoftwareARMEmbedded LinuxDevice Drivers

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Languages, APIs and Specifications • Amazon service configurations relating to complex server architecture setup (VPC, Security Groups, zones, ELB, ALB, NLB), SNS, SQS, API gateway, IOT Core, S3 • Data engineering - Amazon RedShift, Kinesis, Kinesis Data Analytics, Amazon EMR, Spark, DynamoDB streams, PostgresSQL • Google Cloud platform configurations relating to complex server architecture setup. GKE, GCE, • Serverless: Lambda, Cloud Functions, RedShift spectrum • Container Orchestration Platforms: Kubernetes and ECS • MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL, Google Cloud Datastore • C, C++, Python, JavaScript, Node.Js, GoLang, C# • Google Pub/Sub, Cloud End points • IaaC : Ansible, Cloud formation and Google Cloud Deployment Manager • WebKit browser development, Opera Browser Application development Configuration Management and Development Methodologies • Jenkins, GoCD, Octopus, Bitbucket Pipelines • TDD and BDD methodologies using Cucumber.js, SpecFlow, NUnit etc. • Micro-service and Monolithic architecture patterns. Hardware Platforms worked on • x86 and x86_64 • ARM11, A7 • T9, Tx49 Development environments/ Platforms • Linux, pSoS, V-Kernel, ThreadX • GNU C/C++ for x86, GNU ARM (ARM 11, ARM V7), DIAB

Experience

21 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

3 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Tractable

Engineering Manager

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · Hybrid

Tractable is an AI-first company focused on leveraging AI to solve traditional insurance challenges,
such as car and home inspections and estimations. Using advanced visual models, this product line
helps justify repair costs from body shops or usability of car parts, ultimately reducing costs per claim
for insurance companies or help to pick the right parts to reuse for salvage.
At Tractable, I lead the development of next-generation platform capabilities that empower
researchers to deliver innovations to customers 10x faster while maintaining cost efficiency. My
work focuses on accelerating model development and ensuring seamless deployment through highly
available, model-driven applications.
My key responsibilities include:
Collaboration with Stakeholders: Working closely with Product Managers and Go-To-Market
teams to ensure the product offers an ideal 'Product-Market Fit' solution across different regions.
Driving AI Ops Maturity Roadmaps: Working Research Senior leadership in defining AI
maturity for training and inferencing of models.
Customer Support and SLA Management: Establishing support teams to promptly resolve
customer issues and ensure compliance with contractual SLAs.
Improving of Research / Data Scientist experience: Overseeing development lifecycle of AI
models, applying a wide range of best practices commonly associated with MLOps.
Best Practices Advocacy: Promoting CI/CD, SecOps, and automated testing best practices to
enable faster and safer product delivery.
Team Leadership and Development: Leading, coaching, and mentoring a team that includes
team leads, full-stack engineers, and ML engineers.
Cost Management: Responsible for overseeing the technology budget, managing overall
product line costs, and working closely with engineers to optimise operating expenditures.

MLOpsTritonData WarehousingCross-Functional Team Building

Dyson

Engineering Manager

Apr 2017 – Jul 2022 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Singapore

Dyson is a leading consumer electronics firm that manufactures state of the art lifestyle products
such as environmental controllers, beauty products etc. I am part of the connectivity vertical that
provides cloud solutions to these products enhancing their user experience.
My responsibilities in this group are
Responsible for service delivery of solutions developed across a business vertical.
Ensure site reliability by seeking to develop/employ tools making Monitoring and fault detection
efficient.
Uphold principles of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and ensure all the teams are aligned
amongst themselves.
Peer with other technical leads to chalk out the architecture direction.
Architect solutions that makes CI possible ensuring Code quality.
Architect solutions that make CD possible, ensuring zero downtime occurs when new micro
services are deployed.
Responsible for the overall cost of the solution, making optimum architecture changes to keep
the costs down.
Liaising with suppliers and cloud infrastructure providers resolve customer issues and ensure
best practices.
Lead Cross cultural teams and build competence to sustain optimum delivery velocity
Mentor young engineers and delegate responsibility to experienced engineers.
As a resource manager address the concerns of the engineers, conduct performance reviews
and provide timely feedback
Responsible for interfacing with call centers and other stake holders to resolve customer complaints.
Establish a hiring process to induct new engineers in to the team.

Continental

Software Architect

May 2016 – Apr 2017 · 11 mos

Continental Automative is a leading automotive company specialising in interior electronics. I am a part of a vertical within Continental that provides telematics solutions to leading car manufactures in Europe and Japan. I had an active role in development of a telematics control unit (TCU).
My responsibilities in this group are
Design and architect various core modules in the TCU.
Oversee security aspects of the TCU
Contact point for various system issues raised by the customer.
Come up with internal test architecture, whereby making the automating inter-module integration.
Provide innovative ways to facilitate make the system developer friendly (Tools for logging/profiling/heap checking etc.)
Mentor young engineers.

Philips innovation campus

2 roles

Chief Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2010 – Apr 2016 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Singapore

Philips Consumer Entertainment lifestyle business line deals with a range of entertainment products that are marketed by Philips. These include audio, headphones, video, home cinema, multimedia, home communications and accessories – delivering meaningful innovation in sound and entertainment.
My responsibilities in this group were
As a senior member of staff to help peers and mentor juniors over the technical aspects of the project
Develop rapid prototypes and Proof of concepts as product proposals to the management team
Architect, design and develop various frameworks and ecosystems as a part of product development lifecycle
Actively involved in making sure to reduce costs to the business line by innovating tools and frameworks which provide more control at fractional costs
To interact with various stake holders in the product and ensure smooth product development

Software Engineer

Feb 2005 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr 11 mos

Over the two plus years that I have been on a contract with Philips, my responsibilities were as below
Develop and maintain the software modules given to me.
Extensive interaction with the customer to cater to their problems
Understand the Software and Functional Requirements that important for a global product release
Contribute in making effective modules to make robust lesser bug prone products

Toshiba software (india) pvt. ltd.

Senior Mobile Multimedia Embedded Engineer

Jan 2007 – Sep 2010 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Toshiba Embedded Software, is a research and development facility for Toshiba Semiconductor Company Japan. Established in 2002, this company develops reusable software components for a varied range of Toshiba Semiconductor products.
My responsibilities in this group were:
Acting as a lead engineer taking on the responsibility from development to deployment for the software modules
To interact with customers, clarifying their concerns and taking feedback from them
To guide co-workers in various activities
To design and deploy product level documentation that would make the user understand the usability of the product