Ali Habib
Manager - Data & AI
Abu Dhabi,Abu Dhabi
Summary
Data Science & Cloud Leader with 15+ years of experience driving digital transformation, AI/ML strategy, and enterprise data architecture. Proven track record in building high-performing teams, aligning data initiatives with C-suite goals, and delivering multimillion-dirham savings through AI-driven innovation.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certificate
Work history
Data Science Manager
Beeah
Sharjah, UAE
12.2020 - 05.2025
- Digital Transformation: Leading business through Al and Cloud Innovation
- Strategic Leadership: Directed ~ AED 1M cloud modernization program, migrating of legacy systems to Cloud, reducing annual IT costs by 35%.
- AI Driven Operations: Launched AI City Vision, real-time artificial intelligence system detecting overflowing bins by using Deep Learning Model.
- IoT Data Governance: Established enterprise-wide data standards for 6,288 IoT-enabled vehicles, improving fleet efficiency by 18%.
- Cost Savings: Proactively analyzed operations data & engineered policies that helped in reducing Fuel Consumption by 20-25%.
- Team Building: Scaled data engineering team from 5 to 10, implementing Agile/DevOps practices that accelerated deployments by 40%.
- Executive Influence: Presented data-driven ROI models to C-suite, securing AED 2M in AI/ML for KSA Smart City initiatives.
Data Analytics - Team Lead
Abu Dhabi Ports
Abu Dhabi, UAE
09.2017 - 12.2020
- Automated Billing Breakthrough: Built ML-based dynamic pricing for port tariffs, reducing manual billing errors & saving ~ AED 1.2M/year in operational costs.
- Revenue Growth Engine: Conceptualized MARGO, warehouse analytics platform that increased annual profits by 5%.
- Data Monetization: Partnered with finance to develop customer segmentation models, improving upsell revenue by 12%.
- Regulatory Leadership: Designed real-time vessel tracking dashboards, ensuring full compliance with GCC maritime regulations.
Data Scientist
JP Morgan Chase
Mumbai, India
02.2016 - 09.2017
- Created visualizations for improved understanding of Trade Financing Data.
- Process Re-engineering: Automated trade lifecycle reporting, cutting processing time from 48 hours to 12 hours.
- Risk Mitigation: Developed anomaly detection algorithms that reduced fraudulent transactions exposure by ~ USD 500K/month.
- Team Upskilling: Trained analysts on SQL optimization in JPM Coding camps, improvised query performance by 60%.
- Modernization: Helped leadership in Strategy & Transformation of Bank Products.
- Developed ETL framework for Business Intelligence Repository
Data & Credit Analyst
Google
Hyderabad, India
07.2014 - 02.2016
- Cost-Savings: Deployed ML-based outlier detection for G-Card transactions, preventing USD 2M/year in losses.
- SQL NLP Chatbot: Led POC for SQL based NLP chatbot that automated 50% of leadership reporting requests.
- Cloud Migration: Upgraded legacy On-Premise Credit Systems to Google Cloud, improving scalability by 300%.
- Data Analytics: Batch level consolidation of transactions in Google-Citibank fallback systems across all regions for audit & compliance.
Data Analyst
Chevron (Offshore)
Hyderabad, India
12.2010 - 07.2014
- Data Quality Overhaul: Standardized 50+ years of Oil Well Data as per PPDM standards, reducing extraction errors by 25%.
- Supply Chain Analytics: Built Qlik View dashboards that optimized fuel distribution routes, saving USD 300k/year in logistics costs.
- Performance Tuning: Improvised performance overheads of complex SQL queries.
- Identified trends in data to help inform decision-making processes.
Education
Bachelors in Engineering - Computer Science
CUSAT
India 07.2006 - 07.2010
Skills
CORE EXPERTISE
- Data Science Leadership & Mentoring
- Digital Transformation & Cloud Architecture
- Strategic Thinking & OKR Alignment
- Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management
- Agile Project & Team Management
- Data Governance (GDPR, COBIT)
- Business Intelligence & Monetization Strategy
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
- Python, SQL, TensorFlow, OpenCV
- Applied Statistics, Machine Learning
- BigQuery, Looker, Data Pipelines
- Data Modeling & Integration (Batch & Streaming)
- DevOps, CI/CD, Serverless Architectures
- Generative AI, Agentic AI, Context Modelling
- LLM, Vector Databases, LangChain, HuggingFace
Languages
English
Native
Hindi
Native
Chinese (Mandarin)
Beginner
Accomplishments
- Abu Dhabi Ports - Ibtikar Best Startup Idea 2019
- JP Morgan - Code Camp Panelist 2016
Timeline
Data Science Manager
Beeah
12.2020 - 05.2025
Data Analytics - Team Lead
Abu Dhabi Ports
09.2017 - 12.2020
Data Scientist
JP Morgan Chase
02.2016 - 09.2017
Data & Credit Analyst
Google
07.2014 - 02.2016
Data Analyst
Chevron (Offshore)
12.2010 - 07.2014
Bachelors in Engineering - Computer Science
CUSAT
07.2006 - 07.2010
Certification
GCP - Professional Cloud Architect & Professional Data Engineer
Affiliations
- Urban Gardening, Travelling, Designing, Event Management
WORK SNAPSHOT
AI City Vision (2024) - Waste Detection & Supervision using Cameras, Full fledged Artificial Intelligence product, made using OpenCV & Machine Learning helping the company detect illegal waste dumping & tracking real-time incidents.
Link - https://youtu.be/qopeYLMtxfE
Chevron DQM System (2014) - Tool made in APEX to scrape, analyze, visualize and transform rigs & well data according to PPDM Standards. All business rules implemented via SQL through NLP.
Link - https://youtu.be/EkwINKmiUqo
ADP Price Prediction (2020)- Predicting optimal prices for Freight Forwarders in response to Customer Quotes. Backend uses an K-NN analytical engine coded in SQL & Python based on Location Data.
Link - https://youtu.be/tqeMfouOGEA