Omar Charif

I am an AI expert, data scientist and software engineer strongly focused on combining this skill set to build large-scale analytical systems. Recently I spent a lot of time investigating and integrating DevOps and MLOPs principles.

I have 10+ of experience in developing AI/Machine learning models and in software development/engineering. I have solved analytical problems in multiple industries including petroleum, energy, transportation and navigation.

Data scientist and Machine learning engineer experience

• Lead and mentored Junior data scientists, junior software developers and analysts to build data science models and write clean and scalable code.
• Developed machine learning models for time-series analysis to forecast short-term energy demand. 
• Designed, developed, and implemented a machine learning framework that is currently used to produce multiple predictive models for well-log data. This framework allows the building of end-to-end ML pipelines by manipulating a set of configuration files. It performs features selection, dimensionality reduction, sampling strategy selection, multi-stage outliers’ detections, model development, model tuning, validation, and model performance evaluation. This framework produced three client-facing products and contributed to getting multi-million dollar contracts. Maintained ML models' lifecycles using Mlflow.
• Designed and developed a rule-based framework for cleaning, transforming, merging, and summarizing well-log data. This framework allows product owners and analysts to rapidly develop scalable tools based on subject matter expertise.
• Deployed python dependency manager (poetry) and tuned it to meet the needs of frameworks described above.
• Designed and developed Azure DevOps, and Github Actions CI/CD pipelines for the framework described above.
• Scaled and automated processes to run predictive models at scale using Databricks, Airflow DAGs and Prefect.

PHD in computer and information systems specialized in Complex System from “The University of Technology of Compiegne”, France