Omar Saleh

About Omar Saleh

Data Science Lead:Work with cross functional teams and stakeholders to integrate decision analysis into the data science lifecycle, including baselining and setting thresholds on model performance to deliver required business impact.Background- Data Engineering: experience creating and managing scalable real time data streams- Analytics: engage domain experts to identify meaningful structures and generate hypotheses to test in the market- Statistics: experience in modeling distributions and quantifying uncertainty through Bayesian methods.Tools include: SAS, Teradata, Python/ Cython, Java, JSP/Servlets, SQL/Elasticsearch/Redshift, IBM MQ/AWS SQS/SQL Server Service Broker, Numpy/Scipy, Pandas, Matplotlib/ Seaborn, SciKit-Learn, fastai/TensorFlow/PyTorch, Cuda, API interception/web scraping.Latest projects:Establishing ML-Ops at Mobily, based on a holistic approach of evaluating and improving the likelihood of achieving business KPIs.Building a data warehouse for a Domino’s pizza and Dunkin Donuts franchises, including establishing near realtime data streams and storing end of day data; enabling monitoring, automation, analytics and campaign management.Identify distracted drivers via computer vision by classifying eyes on the road as well as gauging mind of the road by detecting distracting objects via multiple cameras, served either on board via Nvidia IOT or on the cloud via GRPCModeling land prices using GMMs with various market and geo-data sources as part of consultancy work.

Experience

1. Data Scientist

   IBM

   May 2023 — Present · Armonk, NY, US

   Work with clients on making data useful

Education

• King Saud University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

  2000 — 2005

• University of Bristol

  Master of Science - MS, Advanced Computing / Internet Technologies with Security

  2008 — 2009