Abdur-Rub Atta Shahid
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PGECHS Phase II, Lahore, Pakistan-https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdurrubatta
Experience Summary
Best characterized as a Data Scientist & Associate Solution Architect, goal-oriented professional; I possess the selfmotivation to succeed in the face of any challenge. Professionally, I have diversified development experience of around
7 years in Data Science & Cloud Computing, which revolves around Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine
Learning, Data Engineering, Big Data, AWS DevOps, Conversational AI. Academically, I did Masters in Data Science and
Bachelors in Software Engineering from Lahore, Pakistan.
Technical Skills
AI/Data Science (NLP)
Database
Information Retrieval
Cloud Computing &
DevOps
Conversational AI
Tools:
Web Frameworks
Data Engineering & Big
Data
Analytics
Python, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), HuggingFace BERT,
SpaCy, Text Classification, Similarity Detection, Duplication Detection, Entity Extraction,
Text Summarization, Topic Modeling, Keyphrase Extraction, Clustering, Sentence
Transformers, Personality Analysis, GPT3, Generative AI, Neo4J, Knowledge Graphs,
Recommendation Engine, ChatGPT, Generative AI, LangChain, TDD, BDD
MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Exasol
Search Relevancy, Search Optimization, Apache Solr, Content Retrieval, Content
Ranking, Elastic Search, Kibana
AWS, EC2, S3, ECS, Lambda, API Gateways, RDS, End to End Model Deployments, API
Deployments, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Microservices, Cost and Performance
Optimization, Security
Intent Classification, Entity Extraction, Dialogue Stories, Evaluation and Deployment
Colab, RASA X, RASA NLU, Rasa Core, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, PyCharm,
Eclipse, IntelliJ, Maven, Git, JIRA
Python Django & Flask, Java Spring Boot
Spark, ETL, Data warehousing, AWS EMR, Apache, Glue ETL
Tableau, PowerBI
Professional Experience
Company
xiQ, Inc
Role
Lead Data Scientist
January 2023 – Present
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Senior Data Scientist
March 2021 – January 2023
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Data Scientist
June 2020 – March 2021
Leading Data Science (NLP & Analytics) & DevOps (AWS) team at xiQ Inc. Involved in
Architecture & Infrastructure Designing and Building, Product Management, Cost &
Performance Optimizations, Research & Development.
Description
Projects
xiQ DISC Personality Prediction: Leveraged DISC-based psychometric analysis to predict
buyer personality, enabling sales and marketing teams to better understand their
customers and optimize their approach
Content Curation Automation: Developed a robust NLP & ML pipeline to automatically
curate relevant business news from public sources. Classifying them in relevant alert
categories and send push notifications & daily emails to subscribers
Global Search Optimization: Optimized search functionality for two different xiQ
products, implementing elastic search for person search, NLP Database for company
search, and Apache Solr for article search, resulting in a more efficient and effective
search experience.
xiQ Intent Data: Leveraged AI algorithms to extract key insights from publicly available
data on both companies and individuals, enabling businesses to gain a deeper
understanding of customer behavior and preferences to inform their marketing and
sales strategies.
xiQ Recommendation Engines: Designed and implemented a hybrid recommendation
engine that uses activity and firmographics data to recommend people and companies,
ideal customer profiles, and buyer groups, resulting in more targeted and personalized
messaging.
Integrating Generative AI (ChatGPT) in xiQ: Integrated generative AI capabilities into
xiQ's sales and marketing product, allowing for more effective email generation, SWOT
analysis, and insights into both individuals and companies using Vector Database.
xiQ Analytics: Built a comprehensive analytics infrastructure using Exasol as an analytics
database and Pentaho ETL and developed extensive dashboards using Tableau to
enable data-driven decision-making across different teams.
DevOps: Leading DevOps department, reducing monthly expenditure by approximately
40% through infrastructure improvements, security enhancements, and cost
optimization, and implementing efficient CI/CD pipelines.
Company
NorthBay Solutions
Role
Senior Software Engineer
Feb 2019 – June 2020
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Software Engineer
August 2018 – Feb 2019
Description
NorthBay Solutions is Premier AWS Partners.
Areas I have worked in NorthBay are Data Engineering, Cloud Data Migration, Big Data,
Cloud Computing.
Company
LiveAdmins LLC
Role
Software Engineer
June 2017 – August 2018
Description
LiveAdmins Conversational AI: Initiated and led Conversational AI Department,
transforming raw text and dialogue into predictive models for multiple industries
Academics
MS Data Science
Information Technology University (ITU), Lahore, Pakistan
Thesis: Knowledge Graphs Exploration: Opportunities, Challenges and Limitations
BS Software Engineering
University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
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