Hi, I’m

Ali Saad ElSaadany

Product Data Science And Intelligence
Bristol, United Kingdom
WHO AM I?

A well rounded Data Scientist trying to leave a big impact
A multi-sport athlete for self-discipline
An aesthete just an appreciator

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I always ask myself

What's the best next thing to do?

Where I can improve, what can I do to improve?

Professional Summary

Well-rounded Data Scientist experienced working with vast data sets to break down information, gather relevant points and solve advanced business problems. Skilled in predictive modeling, data mining and hypothetical testing. Offering 4 years of experience in startups in building data science teams, improving products and business operations.

Overview
5
years of professional experience
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History

University of the West of England, UWE

Technical Instructor
2021-03 - 2021-05 (2 months)

Job overview

  • Designed and Delivered 4 supporting sessions in Data Management in Python for MSc Data Science students.

Educatly

Senior Data Scientist
2020-01 - 2021-02 (1 year & 1 month)

Job overview

  • Designed product data roadmap in terms of data scraping, NLP usability, data modeling and analysis leading to setting short and long term goals.
  • Researched NLP methods to extract specific information from internet-pages using self-supervised learning and traditional NLP methods.
  • Cultivated test and learn culture among data science team to quickly test and try methods to come across technical challenges.
  • Scrapped +250,000 university program and scholarships globally.

RiseUp

Data Scientist
2017-10 - 2020-12 (3 years & 2 months)

Job overview

  • Developed three models to predict future investments in Startups in Egypt.
  • Measured crowd flow, and choke points during summit, leading to high content quality, and attracting bigger audience.
  • Performed AB testing to increase summit ticket sales and users engagement.
  • Implemented tools to monitor and track users' behavior and social media activities.
  • Utilized Company's data through data-driven decision making process.
  • Designed and automated 6 dashboards for different management levels, leading to high growth rate and impact.

Raseedi

Data Science Consultant
2020-01 - 2020-12 (11 months)

Job overview

  • Worked under European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - Developed credit scoring model to estimate users spending level based on mobile phone usage.
  • Conducted +20 AB testing experiments to determine users' incentive to take mini-loan.

Queen Rania Foundation

Data Science Consultant
2017-02 - 2017-06 (4 months)

Job overview

  • Learner’s segmentation Project - Segment +5M students.
  • Developed students' persona based on their behavior using unsupervised Machine Learning leading to increase quality of content, course enrollment and completion.

SAMAA Technology

Data Science Intern
2016-03 - 2016-07 (4 months)

Job overview

  • Healthcare Twitter Analysis project - Worked with large global team to build classification model to classify health related tweets.
  • Performed data exploration, phrase detection, tweets filtration, and data visualization.
Education

University of The West of England - UWE

Master of Science from Data Science
2021-01 - 2022-01 (1 year)

University Overview

  • Top Courses: Data Management, Inferential Statistics, Advanced Statistics, and Machine Learning.
  • Awarded Distinction Grade.

Nile University

Professional Diploma from Big Data and Data Science
2016-03 - 2017-06 (1 year & 3 months)

University Overview

Professional Diploma in Big Data and Data Science

  • Received Professor Moustafa Ghanem Scholarship.
  • Top Courses: Statistical Analysis and Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, Practical Data Mining and Practical Data Science.
TEACHING AND COMMUNITY-SUPPORT
  • Content Development in Big Data in Government Course, Digital Government Authority, Saudi Arabia (Sep 2021) .
  • Teacher Assistant and Content Development Contributer in Data Science and Machine Learning Course in Arabic, Edraak, Jordan (Jul 2019) (Developed in collaboration with Facebook Developers Circle in London).
HONORS AND AWARDS
  • 1st Place Winner – Hack4Community Hackathon by Open Data Institute, Cairo, Egypt (Apr 2016).
  • The Winner of the Inspiration in Education Award – Inspiration Award by Futurelearn, London, UK (Dec 2015).
  • Ironman 70.3 Finisher – Sahl Hasheesh, Egypt (Nov 2019).
HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE
  • Machine Learning: Linear/Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, SVM, KNN, Random Forest, Naïve Bayes, Boosting and AdaBoost, Latent Dirichlet allocation
  • Python: pandas, numpy, sklearn, SciPY, matplotlib, seaborn, NLTK, PyTorch, beautiful soap, and scrapy.
  • R: data.frame, dplyr, plyr, rvest, selenium, ggplot2, tidyverse, tidytext, mlr, caret, e1071, adabag, adaboost, bioconductor.
  • Others: Metabase, R Shiny, Tableau, superset, Google BigQuery, Google Data Studio, SQL, Google Cloud, Docker, git, bash and AWS.
Timeline

Technical Instructor

University of the West of England, UWE
2021-03 - 2021-05 (2 months)

University of The West of England - UWE

Master of Science from Data Science
2021-01 - 2022-01 (1 year)

Senior Data Scientist

Educatly
2020-01 - 2021-02 (1 year & 1 month)

Data Science Consultant

Raseedi
2020-01 - 2020-12 (11 months)

Data Scientist

RiseUp
2017-10 - 2020-12 (3 years & 2 months)

Data Science Consultant

Queen Rania Foundation
2017-02 - 2017-06 (4 months)

Nile University

Professional Diploma from Big Data and Data Science
2016-03 - 2017-06 (1 year & 3 months)

Data Science Intern

SAMAA Technology
2016-03 - 2016-07 (4 months)