AI & Data Professional 7+ yrs in AI/ML, Data Engineering & Applied Research Award-Winning IEEE-Published Researcher

01 · About

The short version

AI and Data Professional with 7+ years of experience delivering data-driven solutions in AI/ML, Data Engineering, and Applied Research across diverse industries including financial services, real estate, and utilities across North America. Certified Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer, holding an MSc in Computer Science (York University) and a BSc in Software Engineering. Applied research experience at the Data Mining Lab, York University, with award-winning work published at the IEEE MDM Conference (Versailles, France). Internationally recognized through EU funding to complete Bachelor’s thesis project at Uppsala University, Sweden. Proven ability to design and deploy scalable ML/AI models, implement analytics pipelines, and collaborate with stakeholders to drive measurable business impact.

I conducted research as an Erasmus Scholar @ the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden in the area of Cloud Computing.

During my graduate studies at York University, I was working under the supervision of Prof. Manos Papagelis.

Currently

Senior ML Platform Engineer

Apple · Jun 2026 - Present

Education

MSc Computer Science

York University

Certified

Professional Machine Learning Engineer

Google Cloud

Research

Best Paper Award

IEEE MDM 2020 · Versailles, France

02 · Work

Where I've built things

9 roles across industry, research and teaching. Hover the timeline, filter by focus, or open any tile for the full story.

Jun 2026 - Present

Senior ML Platform Engineer

Apple

Working across large-scale multi-tenant Kubernetes compute infrastructure and the ML/analytics products that run on top of it — from the capacity layer up to the user-facing application

Kubernetes
LangGraph
LLM Agents
Time-series Forecasting
+2

May 2026 - Sep 2026

ML Engineer

AnswerLayer

Built the machine learning platform for AnswerLayer from the ground up, from writing the product spec to shipping it. That includes a separate ML service, model storage on AWS S3 and Postgres, secure service...

ML Platform
Forecasting
Clustering
AWS S3
+2

Jan 2026 - April 2026

AI Engineer

Optimize Financial Group

Engineered autonomous AI agents to analyze advisor-representative consultations, extracting compliance insights to improve client service quality and regulatory adherence

AI Agents
AWS Lambda
Docker
Amazon ECR
+2

Nov 2025 - Jan 2026

Data Scientist

Mercor

Contributed to rubric-driven AI model training, focusing on reasoning quality, instruction adherence, and robustness

LLM Training
Model Evaluation
Dataset Design
Jupyter

Apr 2023 - Mar 2025

Data Engineering Consultant

N. Harris Computer Corporation

Designed Data Pipelines to extract, transform and load (ETL) data from customer information systems (CIS) into meter data management (MDM) software using Rules Engine (proprietary ETL tool) and SQL

ETL Pipelines
SQL
REST/SOAP APIs
Power BI
+2

Apr 2022 - Jan 2023

Machine Learning (MLOps) Engineer

Badal.io

Built end-to-end machine learning models (training, deployment & evaluation) using AutoML and custom model training by leveraging Vertex AI, BigQuery, Docker and Dataflow for a client in financial space....

Vertex AI
BigQuery
AutoML
Dataflow
+2

Jan 2018 - Dec 2022

Graduate Teaching Assistant

EECS, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University

Taught multiple courses at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department

Java
OOP
Android
Databases
+1

Jan 2018 - Apr 2020

Graduate Research Assistant

Data Mining Lab, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University

The research was related to trajectory data mining, machine learning, and statistical inference

Trajectory Mining
PostGIS
Python
Statistical Inference

Aug 2015 - Jan 2016

Erasmus Scholar

Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing, Uppsala University

Designed a framework inside SNIC using Apache Spark, SparkR & Jupyter Notebook to simplify computations of highly parallel scientific applications

Apache Spark
SparkR
Jupyter
Cloud Computing

03 · Projects

Selected projects

Research prototypes and data experiments, most with code you can read.

Research

Learning Semantic Relationships of Geographical Areas based on Trajectories

Developed a framework to understand semantic relationships between geographical areas based on object movement paths i.e., trajectories. (Best Paper Award for IEEE Conference on Mobile Data Management 2020)

Python
networkx
pandas
PostgreSQL
PostGIS
+2

View code

Search

Expert Developer Recommendation Using Very Large Datasets

Built a search engine to find expert developers by utilizing GitHub datasets.

SQL
Google BigQuery
Elasticsearch

View code

Cloud

Towards Moving Scientific Applications in the Cloud

Cloud computing provides usability, scalability and on demand availability of computational and storage resources, remotely. These are the characteristics required by scientific applications and that’s why we used it. The proje...

OpenStack
Apache Spark
Jupyter
Cloud Computing

View code

Data Science

COVID-19 - Risk of Geographical Areas being infected

This experimental project was done as a use-case to predict COVID-19 infection hotspots for a probable second wave of cases in Manhattan area.

PostgreSQL
PostGIS
Python
numpy
pandas

View code

04 · Research & Writing

Published, cited, and shared

Best Paper Award

Learning Semantic Relationships of Geographical Areas based on Trajectories

S. Mehmood, M. Papagelis

21st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) · Versailles, France, 2020

A framework that uses the movement paths (trajectories) of cars, pedestrians and other objects to infer semantic similarities between geographical areas.

Trajectory Mining
Graph Analysis
PostGIS
Python
Statistical Inference

13citations on Google Scholar

Read on IEEE Code

Medium · Jun 2020

COVID-19: Risk of Geographical Areas being infected

Towards Data Science

Trajectory Mining
PostgreSQL
COVID-19

Medium · Apr 2021

Calculating Zakat using Python

Python in Plain English

Python
Programming

Stack Overflow

How to add an image to the "drawable" folder in Android Studio?

Tools I reach for

AI & LLMs

LangGraph
LLM Agents
RAG
Google Gemini
OpenAI
Cohere
DeepSeek
Ollama
Claude
Cursor

Machine Learning

scikit-learn
TensorFlow
Keras
PyTorch
Vertex AI
AutoML
Time-series Forecasting
Clustering
NLP

Data & Analytics

Python
pandas
numpy
PySpark
matplotlib
seaborn
Power BI
Tableau
ETL Pipelines

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Lambda
EC2
ECR
S3
GCP
BigQuery
Azure Databricks
Kubernetes
Docker
GitHub Actions

Databases

PostgreSQL
PostGIS
MongoDB
MySQL
Oracle

Languages & Tools

Python
Java
C#
C/C++
JavaScript
TypeScript
React
FastAPI
Matlab
VS Code
Jira

Curious about

06 · Education & Recognition

Learning, awards, and giving back

Jan 2018 - June 2020

MSc Computer Science

York University

My studies at York University were focused on extensive research. I accumulated a wealth of knowledge in the area of Data Mining, Big Data, Data Science and Machine Learning. I published research ...

Sep 2012 - Jul 2016

Bachelor of Sciences in Software Engineering

University of the Punjab

Four years of undergrad at University of the Punjab helped shaped my understanding of cloud computing, software development, and its requirements engineering. During the course of my studies, I ear...

Certification

Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer

Issued Sep 2022 - Expires Sep 2024

Certification

Introduction to Quantum Computing

March 2020

Honors & awards

Best Paper Award, IEEE MDM 2020
2020
York University Graduate Fellowship, full duration of MSc Computer Science
Jan 2018
Vice-President Organization, EECS Graduate Student Association, York University
2018 - 2019
Pakistan Youth Delegation to China, representing Pakistani youth
Aug 2016
Erasmus Mundus Exchange Scholarship, semester at Uppsala University
May 2015
Winner, 17th In-House Speed Programming Competition, University of the Punjab
May 2015

Community

Sep 2025 - Present

Ghusul Volunteer and Developer

Hamilton Mountain Masjid

• Volunteering for Ghusul services in the community

• Developed a web application for the community to schedule Ghusul volunteers - Live app

Jul 2022 - Apr 2026

Data Science Mentor

SharpestMinds

• Helping recent graduates and folks from different backgrounds to transition into Data Science.

• Mentor Profile

Jun 2021 - Jun 2022

Research Fellow

Aggregate Intellect

• Open sourcing NLP (natural language processing) packages to increase the visibility of aggregate intellect in tech community - Github

Nov 2019

Volunteer

IBM

• Actively contributed to organizing IBM’s CASCON x EVOKE 2019 conference.

07 · Connect

Let's build something together.

Open to conversations about ML platforms, LLM agents and data systems.

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Saim Mehmood

The short version

Where I've built things

Senior ML Platform Engineer

ML Engineer

AI Engineer

Data Scientist

Data Engineering Consultant

Machine Learning (MLOps) Engineer

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Graduate Research Assistant

Erasmus Scholar

Selected projects

Learning Semantic Relationships of Geographical Areas based on Trajectories

Expert Developer Recommendation Using Very Large Datasets

Towards Moving Scientific Applications in the Cloud

COVID-19 - Risk of Geographical Areas being infected

Fresh from GitHub

Published, cited, and shared

Learning Semantic Relationships of Geographical Areas based on Trajectories

COVID-19: Risk of Geographical Areas being infected

Calculating Zakat using Python

How to add an image to the "drawable" folder in Android Studio?

Tools I reach for

AI & LLMs

Machine Learning

Data & Analytics

Cloud & DevOps

Databases

Languages & Tools

Curious about

Learning, awards, and giving back

MSc Computer Science

Bachelor of Sciences in Software Engineering

Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer

Introduction to Quantum Computing

Honors & awards

Community

Ghusul Volunteer and Developer

Data Science Mentor

Research Fellow

Volunteer

Find me around the web

GitHub

LinkedIn

Google Scholar

Stack Overflow

Medium

Let's build something together.