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Rima A.

3x Founder, helped 3 scale ups to exits, helped 10+ Fortune 100 & 500. MVP, Scale Engineering and AI expert

I am an engineer, a patent holder in AI, a founder, and I deeply understand the challenges you face in your day-to-day taking a product to market and scaling it to meet customer demands. I lead with empathy towards teams, stakeholders, market forces, and you.

I have delivered projects across industries (consumer, advertising, infrastructure, SaaS, Gaming, aviation, automotive, aerospace, health, medical devices, insurance, global policy and more).

I have worked across teams and led teams. (sales, marketing, product, engineering, solution engineering, and data science & AI research).

While I may appear to be a jack-of-all-trades, I have designed large and complex hands-on keyboard systems to service millions of users in demanding environments and designed systems that impact large populations as well as had fun building MVPs and hacking products. In programming, I'm a python engineer primarily, but as they say engineers aren't constrained by a language.

I speak and lead the top floor well, and I am deeply embedded on the ground floor to work with everyone solving problems, moving the needle, and having fun, and making friends while doing it!

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Work

Drone Vision

Drone vision solution for detecting objects in the desert in real-time under unpredictable conditions. Supervised the data science team through the project.

Airport Security Optimization

The project involved working with teams at a prime European airport and executives from their parent and funding companies to drive the adoption of AI and lead the creation of a custom AI solution to optimize airport operations based on predictive passenger patterns.

Optimal Character Upgrade

Done for one of the top 5 gaming studios in the world and one of the top games. Find the least visible combination of character upgrades to support a player to overcome extremely frustrating failures.

Predictive Battery

Led the team building for one of the top 3 electric car manufacturers in the world, allowing for predicting battery time and battery failure.

Voice Cloning/Synthesis

For a YC startup building based in San Francisco, California.

I developed the MVP for cloning voices from a sentence said by the speaker to produce personalized videos by the speaker's voice, using one-shot encoder/decoder models. Performed R&D and supervised two research assistants.

Experience

Dec 2020 — Present
Begin.AI

Begin.AI

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Personalization infrastructure software for real-time product adaptation to keep users happy.

  • Invented a decentralized fast technology that works at very large scale.
  • Led product design and development.
  • Led teams, investment, etc.
  • Led development of high quality, general purpose user retention algorithms that are easy to deploy.
Apr 2020 — Oct 2020
OpenMined

OpenMined

Core Engineer (volunteer)

Non-profit building federated learning libraries that are recognized globally, working with Meta.

  • Worked with the founding core team on solving complex decentralized learning challenges.
Mar 2018 — Nov 2020
Lixar IT (Acquired by BDO)

Lixar IT (Acquired by BDO)

Data and AI Practice Lead

Premier AI and Data Company delivering AI research and Applied AI solutions to Fortune companies in North America and EU.

  • Built and led a solutions engineering team that was responsible for solution delivery and account growth.
  • Led data and AI teams to deliver applied AI solutions for a wide range of applications.
  • Led executive stakeholder meetings for the largest accounts that spanned teams across countries/continents for AI adaption strategies.
  • Led internal efficiency upgrades efforts prior to acquisition by BDO.
  • Coded MVPs for AI solutions for call centre voice analysis, predictive radio, predictive sales, scenario simulations and more.
  • Led R&D efforts for AI solutions in self driving cars, medical devices, aerospace, and more.
Feb 2018 — Aug 2019
Research Exchange (Acquired by Liquidnet)

Research Exchange (Acquired by Liquidnet)

Lead Software Engineer

Financial research aggregator in the UK.

  • Hands on keyboard responsible for research import/updates from a variety of systems.
  • Interface development for users to find and pay for research.
  • Team onboarding and support through acquisition transition.
Mar 2015 — Dec 2017
Mokus.io (scaled to U$1m revenue in first year of ops)

Mokus.io (scaled to U$1m revenue in first year of ops)

Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder

The leading web and mobile development business in MENA. Recruiting 300+ contract engineers to deliver cross-platform solutions.

  • Hired and led executive team.
  • Developed GTM and scale strategy.
  • Helped key clients in their product strategy working closely with their executive board.
  • Launched solutions for many recognized scale ups like Health at Hand and Democrance.
  • Built systems for engineer rotations, payouts, quality engineering, onboarding, and efficiency optimization.
Jun 2012 — Mar 2015
Nabbesh.com (Acquired by Wamda)

Nabbesh.com (Acquired by Wamda)

Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder

The leading freelancer marketplace for MENA region.

  • Build product MVP in a hackathon.
  • Built product for scale and search & matching algorithms.
  • Built reporting dashboards for user funnels and user interactions.
  • Executive board member.
  • Hired and onboarded initial team.
Jun 2010 — Jun 2012
ITP Media Group

ITP Media Group

Head of Development

A leading publisher in MENA, publishing 80+ publications, including TimeOutDubai and ArabianBusiness.

  • Hired and led dev teams across publications.
  • Led architecture design and development of a new publishing system to service high demand.
  • Built recommender systems for increasing user retention.
Dec 2009 — Nov 2010
Dubizzle (Acquired by Rocket Internet)

Dubizzle (Acquired by Rocket Internet)

Lead Developer

The leading classifieds website for MENA.

  • Built feeds systems for ads.
  • Built search algorithm, and recommender systems for millions of users.
  • Developed expansion systems for new countries/languages.