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Zara Ahmed

Zara Ahmed

Early-career ML — evals, fine-tuning, small models
Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging FaceRemote (US) · America/New_York3 yrs · IC3
ScreeningHotInboundActively lookingUS citizen
AI match score
81/ 100
Good
Last touched3w ago
OwnerMei Lin
Comp expectation$200,000–$260,000
Flight risklow

Work history

6 roles, 3 total years.

  • HF
    Machine Learning Engineer
    Hugging Face
    Oct 2024Present
    1 yr 6 mo
    Remote (US)Team of 15AI/MLgrowth

    Owned headcount, roadmap, and delivery for the team.

    Shipped a retrieval-augmented product feature
    +47% task-completion rate in the user cohort
    Drove a quality-eval framework to production
    28+ teams onboarded in 6 months
    SQLRAG pipelinesPythonHugging Face TransformersLangChainAWS
  • GI
    Staff Machine Learning Engineer
    GitHub
    May 2022Oct 2024
    2 yr 5 mo
    Los Angeles, CATeam of 14Developer Toolsenterprise

    Drove applied ml work end-to-end with partner teams.

    Drove a quality-eval framework to production
    29+ teams onboarded in 6 months
    Shipped a retrieval-augmented product feature
    +84% task-completion rate in the user cohort
    Vector databasesMLOpsPyTorchHugging Face Transformers
  • GI
    Senior Machine Learning Engineer
    GitLab
    Apr 2019May 2022
    3 yr 1 mo
    Paris, FRTeam of 16Developer Toolsenterprise

    Drove applied ml work end-to-end with partner teams.

    Drove a quality-eval framework to production
    60+ teams onboarded in 6 months
    Hugging Face TransformersPythonLangChainPyTorchMLOps
  • AS
    Applied ML Engineer
    Asana
    Feb 2018Apr 2019
    1 yr 2 mo
    Berlin, DETeam of 12SaaSenterprise

    Drove applied ml work end-to-end with partner teams.

    Shipped a retrieval-augmented product feature
    +48% task-completion rate in the user cohort
    Drove a quality-eval framework to production
    76+ teams onboarded in 6 months
    MLOpsHugging Face TransformersPyTorchLangChainAWS
  • NE
    Applied ML Engineer
    Neon
    Jan 2015Feb 2018
    3 yr 1 mo
    New York, NYTeam of 9Developer Toolsstartup

    Drove applied ml work end-to-end with partner teams.

    Drove a quality-eval framework to production
    33+ teams onboarded in 6 months
    Shipped a retrieval-augmented product feature
    +77% task-completion rate in the user cohort
    Hugging Face TransformersMLOpsPythonLangChainPyTorchVector databases
  • RE
    Applied ML Engineer
    Replicate
    Sep 2012Jan 2015
    2 yr 4 mo
    New York, NYTeam of 6AI/MLstartup

    Drove applied ml work end-to-end with partner teams.

    Shipped a retrieval-augmented product feature
    +21% task-completion rate in the user cohort
    Vector databasesRAG pipelinesSQLMLOpsLangChainHugging Face Transformers