Yaseen Ahmed

Head of AI

Toronto, Ontario, Canada3 yrs 4 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable AI solutions.
  • Proven track record in founding and leading tech startups.
  • Innovative methodologies for integrating advanced technologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI-focused technical leader.

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About

I solve problems with code. Then I scale them into companies. I've broken enough things to know what's worth building. Equal parts: Coffee, Product, Conviction. Usually the youngest in the room.

Experience

3 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs
Current Experience

Islands

2 roles

Head of AI

Promoted

Apr 2026Present · 1 mo

Lead ML Engineer

Jan 2023Mar 2026 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Leading AI / Data projects across the company.

Voqal ai

CTO & Founder

Dec 2025Present · 5 mos

  • Building the voice infrastructure for MENA.

Coachpal

Founder

Sep 2025Present · 8 mos · Delaware, United States

  • Building the OS for human performance

University of waterloo

Visiting Scholar

Jun 2024Aug 2024 · 2 mos · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

  • Worked under the supervision of Professor Tamer Özsu to develop innovative methodologies for integrating graph data structures with LLMs, enhancing model interpretability and performance
  • Engineered a comprehensive dataset generation pipeline, producing over 1,000 diverse graph structures using the Erdos-Renyi algorithm
  • Developed a rule-based serialization algorithm, translating complex graphs into Graph Description Language (GDL) with 10+ descriptive types, facilitating cross-domain applications in logistics, telecommunications, and social networks
  • Designed a synthetic prompt generation model, creating 500+ unique prompts per context (e.g., social, political networks) for model training

Qa flow

Founding Engineer

May 2024Present · 2 yrs · Toronto, ON

  • Building everything and anything AI :)

Cytwin lab

Software Engineer

Dec 2023May 2024 · 5 mos

  • Integrated advanced behavioral planning algorithms into a digital twin environment, leveraging CARLA's sensor suite, including RGB cameras, LiDAR, and radar, to enhance decision-making processes in autonomous driving environments, resulting in a 40% increase in simulation fidelity
  • Engineered an automated data pipeline that generated a comprehensive KITTI dataset from CARLA's sensor data, including bounding boxes and point clouds, optimizing training efficiency for reinforcement learning models by 50%
  • Integrated Carlafox and Foxglove into a Dockerized JupyterHub environment, streamlining the testing and validation of 3D object detection models, leading to a 30% reduction in development time and a 25% improvement in spatial data accuracy.

Microsoft

SDE Intern

Jul 2022Aug 2022 · 1 mo

  • Microsoft Advanced Technology Labs (ATL).
  • Software Development Engineering Intern.
  • ALPS-CT Team.
  • Utilized Microsoft Azure to design and implement an end-to-end Personally Identifiable Information (PII)-redaction service on videos
  • Developed and tested a UI for the PII-redaction pipeline through Flask, HTML, and CSS (bootstrap)
  • Architected a timestamp-to-speech matching system using Azure’s Cognitive Service (speech sdk)
  • Built a video-transcription module for real-time processing of audio through Azure Cognitive Services

Siemens eda (siemens digital industries software)

2 roles

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2022Jul 2022 · 1 mo

  • Designed and constructed a radar sensor-to-Raspberry Pi system for data collection and processing
  • Built a real-time frequency wave monitoring module in Python and remotely developed on it through an SSH client
  • Developed a ML model for classification of wave data with over 97% accuracy and almost no overfitting or underfitting
  • Deployed and triggered a classification model on AWS by requesting data from an S3 bucket and training through AWS Sagemaker

Machine Learning Intern

Jul 2021Aug 2021 · 1 mo

  • Siemens Factory Automations Advanced AI Group
  • Developed an end-to-end ML training pipeline for acoustic monitoring of machinery and equipment using Librosa
  • Trained various models by extracting MFCCs from audio data and passing them through a CNN
  • Leveraged Python to implement a publish-subscribe Message Queuing Telemetry Transport communication system

Education

University of Waterloo

Master's degree — Computer Science

The American University in Cairo

Bachelor of Science — Computer Engineering

Yaseen Ahmed - Head of AI | Stackforce