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Umar Maqsud

Senior AI Architect & Engineer

Umar Maqsud
Berlin, Germany

Experience

Apr 2023 - Present
2 years 10 months

Senior AI Architect & Engineer

Freelancer / Self-Employed

  • Consulting, design and architecture of SaaS platforms with a focus on automation, data analysis and cloud deployment
  • Defining the target architecture and managing the entire development cycle from implementation to production operation, including stakeholder coordination
  • Design, architecture and implementation of a multi-tenant SaaS platform
  • Building scalable data and machine learning pipelines (batch & streaming) for order and business data
  • Developing AI models for data analysis (KPI calculations, forecasts) and integrating them into data pipelines
  • AI-driven processing of customer inquiries (delivery status, invoice, cancellation, complaint) to automate customer service
  • Developing APIs, microservices and dashboards with Python for data-driven applications
  • Cloud deployment on AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code automation with Terraform; containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Setting up CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment with GitLab CI and governance of deployment processes
  • Implementing monitoring dashboards with Grafana to monitor services and ML pipelines
  • Implementing security and compliance requirements (GDPR-compliant data handling, logging) including identity & access management and role-based access control
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
4 years 5 months

Senior AI Consultant

Public sector client (project via IBM)

  • Consulting, design and implementation of intelligent systems for data processing and process automation, focusing on natural language processing, machine learning and scalable software architecture
  • Defining the architecture and technical implementation of AI solutions in public sector and security-critical projects
  • Modernizing existing legacy systems and migrating to containerized microservices architectures (Docker/Kubernetes)
  • Building and architecting an NLP system for automatic classification of message texts with company-specific categories and automated feature extraction
  • Developing a method to prioritize regression tests using an ML model to optimize test analysis
  • Applying semantic analysis methods in IT problem management to speed up incident handling and reduce repeat cases
  • Aligning architecture decisions with cross-functional teams and advising on model validation, explainability and knowledge integration
  • Developing backend components in Java with a focus on maintainability, clean code and integration into existing system architectures
  • Building a scalable MLOps reference architecture with automated model lifecycle management (versioning, pipeline orchestration, monitoring)
  • Responsible for the architecture roadmap, CI/CD governance (GitLab, Jenkins) and integration of the MLOps toolchain
  • Evaluating strategies for new AI components in the government environment to maximize reuse of existing solutions
Jun 2016 - Jun 2018
2 years 1 month

AI Architect & Engineer

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

  • Research and development in Industry 4.0 for intelligent analysis of sensor data, error reports and production parameters in cyber-physical manufacturing systems
  • Developing forecasting models for process optimization and methods for automated data cleaning in real-time data streams
  • Designing and researching methods for analyzing sensor data and order parameters to improve manufacturing process efficiency
  • Developing predictive analytics models with Apache Flink for streaming and batch processing of machine sensor data
  • Analyzing unstructured data (error logs, maintenance and repair reports) using NLP for automated fault detection and root cause analysis
  • Implementing methods for real-time data cleaning and ensuring data quality in continuous data streams
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
6 months

Software Engineer

IBM Watson Research Center

  • Research and development within the IBM Watson DeepQA framework (Watson Multilingual Group)
  • Design and implementation of a graph-based model for question answering based on the IBM DeepQA framework
  • Analyzing and processing natural language texts with an NLP pipeline to extract semantic relations
  • Validating the approach in collaboration with an international research team in Dublin
Jan 2012 - Apr 2015
3 years 4 months

Software Engineer

BetterTec GmbH

  • Design and development of web and backend features for a mobility platform, focusing on booking systems, user management and billing processes
  • Developing components for booking and billing systems
  • Integrating external services and APIs to include pricing information and booking functions
  • Modeling and optimizing relational databases (PostgreSQL) for efficient data management
  • Implementing core business logic for user management, invoicing and payments, including route matching
  • Agile team development using Scrum with short sprints and regular reviews

Skills

  • Hybrid Ai Architectures (On-prem & Cloud)
  • Machine Learning Pipelines
  • Mlops
  • Ml Lifecycle Management
  • Data Engineering (Batch & Streaming)
  • Architecture Definition & Stakeholder Alignment
  • Infrastructure As Code (Terraform)
  • Ci/cd Governance (Gitlab Ci / Jenkins)
  • Security & Compliance (Gdpr / Iam / Rbac)
  • Python
  • Model Monitoring & Versioning (Mlflow / Kubeflow)
  • Explainable Ai
  • Natural Language Processing (Nlp / Llm)
  • Aws Sagemaker
  • Docker & Kubernetes
  • Java
  • Microservices & Interface Architecture
  • Monitoring (Grafana)
  • On-prem Ai Platforms (Open Source Stack)
  • Sql & Databases
  • Data Warehouse

Languages

German
Native
English
Native

Education

Oct 2012 - Sep 2015

Technical University of Berlin

Master of Science · Computer Science · Berlin, Germany

Oct 2008 - Sep 2012

Technical University of Berlin

Bachelor of Science · Computer Science · Berlin, Germany

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