Naveed Ahmad
Director of Generative AI | Foundation Models · Agents · RAG | ex-AWS • ex-Meta
- Role
- Director Generative Ai at Capital One
- Location
- Caldwell, NJ, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Naveed Ahmad
Director of Generative AI at Capital One, leading foundation model serving and GenAI platform development at scale.Previously at Amazon building Amazon Q for Business & Kendra, and at Meta/Instagram on Feed & Stories ranking systems.Technical focus: RAG architectures, agentic workflows, MCP integrations, and production LLM systems.Speaker at Google Next. 20+ years in AI/ML across telecom, media, and financial services. MS CS from UIUC. AWS Certified Solutions Architect.Always open to connecting with builders and teams working on the next generation of AI products.
Experience
Director Generative Ai
Oct 2024 — Present
Leading frontier AI/ML engineering to architect and serve CapitalOne-developed foundation models in production, powering AI applications across marketing, credit, and fraud domains.Architecting and engineering enterprise-scale graph services, enabling graph algorithm applications and knowledge graph traversal to unlock AI capabilities across critical business domains.
Education
Stanford University
Natural Language Processing Graduate Course
2010 — 2010
University of California, Berkeley
Summer Bootcamp, Deep Reinforcement Learning
2017 — 2017
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
1995 — 1998
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Master's degree, Computer Science
2002 — 2003
NYU Center for Data Science
Deep Learning
2017 — 2017
Skills
- Oracle
- Bash
- Deep Learning
- Hadoop
- Php
- Agile Methodologies
- Customer Service
- Mysql
- Python
- Sql
- Linux
- Machine Learning
- Tensorflow
- Java
- Mongodb
- Apache Spark
- Bigquery
- Javascript
- Looker
- Pytorch
- Enterprise Architecture
- Elasticsearch
- Software Project Management
- Sugarcrm
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