Saarah Abdulla
Machine Learning | Project Management
Abu Dhabi,
Summary
Machine Learning customer engineer providing technical expertise and support to customers, designing and developing ML solutions. Other responsibilities include product demos, troubleshooting, customer relationship management, post-sales support, continuous learning and documentation enhancement. Recent projects include: Segment Anything Model (SAM) integration for On-Shelf Availability (WALMART), YoloV7 Segmentation model for Aircraft Detection (THALES).
Holder of Master's degree in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence with strong theoretical knowledge and research capabilities. Proficient in Python, ML frameworks with analytical, problem-solving mindset. Excellent project management skills with several years industry experience leading the development and execution of multi-million dollar contracts.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Machine Learning Customer Engineer
Dataloop AI
03.2023 - 02.2024
- Design FaaS solutions with automatic triggers to streamline annotator tasks, such as auto-reporting and annotation conversions
- Deploy packages from codebase and run services through Kubernetes deployment and monitor executions/logs
- Create automated workflows that weave datasets integrated from Cloud buckets (Google, AWS, Azure) along with human tasks (labelling, QA) and ML models
- Deploy ML models on client projects by creating a model adapter that creates a single API between model and platform (Segment Anything, YOLO, EfficientNet)
- Fine-tune models on client data, evaluate and compare based on certain metrics such as mAP, IoU, Precision and Recall.
- Create and manage automatic active learning pipelines whereby models that are utilized for pre-annotation are continuously improved by human verification (better data leads to better models)
- Create and maintain documentation, tutorials, shared client repositories to improve client experience and product utilization
- Assist with troubleshooting, debugging, resolving any issues clients encounter and proactively provide support
Digital Operations Consultant
Caterpillar SARL
08.2022 - 02.2023
- Driving execution of digital priorities and strategic initiatives as identified by Leadership Tables, Operational Excellence Programs and Services Growth Strategies.
- Conducting the Digital Excellence Program assessment with assigned dealers, establish and execute action plans and governance reviews to improve dealer digital capabilities.
- Consulting with dealers on Connectivity, Lead & Opportunity Management Data Health, eCommerce, and Fleet Management solutions.
- Act as the main digital contact for District Managers, field reps and internal business partners and provide subject matter expertise to improve digital and technology capacity and capability.
Project Delivery Engineer II
Petrofac International UAE LLC
02.2017 - 04.2020
- Led the development and execution of purchase orders i.e. ensure selection of competent tenders via analyzing proposed technical offer, scope of supply, schedule, risks and cost and provided recommendations to manage project budget
- Monitored document revision cycles and ensured key technical documents and procedures are submitted to the client for review approval
- Monitored, managed and controlled various multidisciplinary packages to ensure compliance to client specifications, on budget and timely delivery in-line with project schedule
- Performed field expediting visit to vendor facilities (local and international) to resolve queries and ensure timely execution and delivery of the PO scope of supply
- Carried out PO Close-out procedures including: final documentation, commercials and project evaluation to identify lessons learned
Instrumentation & Controls Engineer III
Petrofac International UAE LLC
10.2016 - 01.2017
- Joined the 2016 International Graduate Development Program as an Instrumentation & Controls Engineer
- Attended in house discipline training and soft skills courses
- Performed On The Job Training under direct supervision covering various technical duties
Education
Master of Science - Machine Learning
Mohamed Bin Zayed University of A.I.
Abu Dhabi 01.2021 - 12.2022
Bachelor of Science - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
University of Sharjah
Sharjah 09.2011 - 08.2015
Skills
Machine Learning/Deep Learning
undefinedPersonal Details
- Nationality: Canadian
- Recipient of UAE Golden Visa (Specialized Talents)
Accomplishments
- Winner of Siemens Women in AI Hackathon - Sep 2022
- Artificial Intelligence course - Samsung Innovation Campus - Feb 2022
- Graduate Teaching Assistant - Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence - Jan 2022
- Mentor for Teens In AI UAE initiative - Oct 2021
Timeline
Machine Learning Customer Engineer
Dataloop AI
03.2023 - 02.2024
Digital Operations Consultant
Caterpillar SARL
08.2022 - 02.2023
Master of Science - Machine Learning
Mohamed Bin Zayed University of A.I.
01.2021 - 12.2022
Project Delivery Engineer II
Petrofac International UAE LLC
02.2017 - 04.2020
Instrumentation & Controls Engineer III
Petrofac International UAE LLC
10.2016 - 01.2017
Bachelor of Science - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
University of Sharjah
09.2011 - 08.2015
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