Awesome-CV/cv/experience.tex
derek-thomas f74f0dd62b feat: add Derek's CV using Awesome-CV format
Migrates Derek's CV from res.cls to Awesome-CV (lualatex).
Updates awesome-cv.cls font to Source Sans Pro for Docker TeX Live 2025 compat.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-30 19:27:12 -05:00

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\cvsection{Experience}
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\begin{cventries}
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\cventry
{Machine Learning Success Engineer} % Job title
{\href{https://www.huggingface.co/}{Hugging Face} (World-leading Open-source AI Unicorn)} % Organization
{Abu Dhabi, UAE} % Location
{Dec. 2022 -- Present} % Date(s)
{
\begin{cvitems} % Description(s) of tasks/responsibilities
\item {Drove HF's largest-ever quarter (Q1 2024): single-handedly supported Account Executives to achieve 120\% of team goal}
\item {Guided Fortune 500 to startup teams on Agentic Workflows, LLM fine-tuning, RAG, synthetic data generation, and model evaluation for Finance \& Healthcare}
\item {Deep expertise in inference optimization: quantization, compact models, multi-LoRA serving, and \href{https://huggingface.co/blog/billion-classifications}{large-scale profiling}; published on \href{https://datavistics.github.io/posts/arabic-rag-1/}{Arabic RAG}, \href{https://huggingface.co/spaces/derek-thomas/fawkes}{Speech-to-Speech}, and Multi-LoRA}
\item {High-impact speaker at GITEX Dubai, Seoul, and Singapore; grew ML Success team by 300\%; pioneered HUGS and SafeCoder}
\end{cvitems}
}
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\cventry
{Customer Facing Data Scientist} % Job title
{\href{https://www.datarobot.com/}{DataRobot} (AutoML Platform)} % Organization
{Abu Dhabi, UAE} % Location
{Nov. 2021 -- Sep. 2022} % Date(s)
{
\begin{cvitems} % Description(s) of tasks/responsibilities
\item {First Data Scientist in the MENA region; conducted DataRobot's \href{https://www.datarobot.com/webinars/getting-started-with-transformers-and-mlops/}{largest-ever Hugging Face partner webinar}}
\item {Delivered 20+ AI use cases across 10 clients: banking propensity models achieved 5x--13x conversion lift; \href{https://www.datarobot.com/customers/oyak/}{manufacturing} drove \$1.6M/yr savings and $\sim$200K ton CO\textsubscript{2} reduction}
\item {Pioneered Transformer integration with AutoML \& MLOps monitoring; led DataRobot's first NLP client enablement session}
\end{cvitems}
}
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\cventry
{Lead Data Scientist / Lead Data Engineer} % Job title
{UAE Government Contractor} % Organization
{Abu Dhabi, UAE} % Location
{Feb. 2021 -- Sep. 2021} % Date(s)
{
\begin{cvitems} % Description(s) of tasks/responsibilities
\item {Built hybrid cloud Big Data platform processing 6M documents/day as team lead}
\item {Replaced NLP/Geoparsing vendors with Transformer models: saved \$1.9M, improved sentiment recall 20\% and NER accuracy 23\%}
\end{cvitems}
}
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\cventry
{Senior Data Scientist} % Job title
{\href{https://g42.ai/}{G42} (AI Startup $\rightarrow$ Unicorn)} % Organization
{Abu Dhabi, UAE} % Location
{Apr. 2019 -- Feb. 2021} % Date(s)
{
\begin{cvitems} % Description(s) of tasks/responsibilities
\item {Arabic $\leftrightarrow$ English MT competitive with Google ($\pm$3 BLEU); led Data Engineering responsible for 78\% of BLEU improvement; Apache Airflow pipeline for 24B sentences}
\item {Improved SotA Entity Linking with BERT for 40K articles/day knowledge graph; adaptive PyTorch binarization filter cut OCR character error rate 50\%}
\end{cvitems}
}
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\cventry
{Data Scientist} % Job title
{\href{http://saal.ai/}{Saal.ai} (AI Startup)} % Organization
{Abu Dhabi, UAE} % Location
{Mar. 2018 -- Apr. 2019} % Date(s)
{
\begin{cvitems} % Description(s) of tasks/responsibilities
\item {Built NLP REST microservices: Stance Detection (BERT) and Graph Attention Networks for Text Classification; 7-day oil price forecasting}
\end{cvitems}
}
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\cventry
{Data Analyst; Systems Engineer; FPGA Engineer} % Job title
{Rockwell Collins (Government Avionics)} % Organization
{Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA} % Location
{Jan. 2014 -- Dec. 2017} % Date(s)
{
\begin{cvitems} % Description(s) of tasks/responsibilities
\item {Developed a real-time data model yielding over \$15,000 in savings its first week of deployment}
\end{cvitems}
}
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\end{cventries}