Programming and Development
Python, R, SQL, C++, Git, REST APIs, React, Agile/Scrum, Jira, Confluence
About
ML Scientist at Expedia Group building production machine learning systems and agentic AI applications. Experience spans recommendation systems, conversational AI, LLM fine-tuning, data pipelines, and inference services. Previous work at Alibaba Group increased recommendation conversion by 2.3%, improved dMart CTR by 30%, and automated KPI analysis to save $96,000 annually.
Technical Skills
Python, R, SQL, C++, Git, REST APIs, React, Agile/Scrum, Jira, Confluence
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Snowflake, MongoDB, Hadoop, Spark, Jupyter Notebooks, Oracle Cloud
Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, PEFT/LoRA, LLMs, LangGraph, MCP, Agent-to-Agent (A2A)
Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Tableau, Power BI, Looker
A/B Testing, Hypothesis Testing, Time Series Forecasting, Regression, Classification
Azure Data Fundamentals · DeepLearning.AI TensorFlow Developer
Professional Experience
Expedia Group · Austin, Texas
July 2026 - Present
Mojave Technologies · Las Vegas, Nevada
June 2025 - December 2025
Alibaba Group · Karachi, Pakistan
August 2022 - March 2024
Selected Work
A Mamba-based reasoning LLM
January 2025 - March 2025
Scaled test-time compute of Falcon3 Mamba 7B using GRPO, improving GSM8K math performance by 37.2% over the base model and reaching more than 1,500 downloads in 2025.
EEG brain-computer interface
October 2021 - March 2022
Built a mobile BCI application backed by an Azure-hosted deep neural network for classifying EEG signals into discrete actions; the project won Microsoft Imagine Cup 2022 in the EMEA Lifestyle category.
2023 IEEE IAS Global Conference on Emerging Technologies (GlobConET), 1-4
2020 International Conference on Smart Grids and Energy Systems (SGES), 527-532
Education
Indiana University Indianapolis · Indianapolis, IN
Began August 2024
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology · Topi, Pakistan
August 2018 - July 2022