Atif Abdullah Ben-Yosef Al-Siddiqi

Nominated as Expert Vetted (Top 1%) for Data Science AI, & Machine Learning on Upwork (out of 17 million freelancers). I am a creative data scientist, data engineer, and machine learning engineer with an entrepreneurial background. When street fighting with data, I believe I am a combination of Kenshi (patience) and Darius (persistence & impact) (Mortal Kombat characters). I specialize in solving business problems using data science, machine learning, data engineering, and SQL reporting. Ten years of experience in engineering, analytical analysis involving classical time series regression, data wrangling, predictive analytics, financial optimization, volumetric, and economic forecasting. I have been using Python for analytics since 2014. I have built custom Machine Learning Models using Pandas, Matrices and Algebra since 2015. I have been applying Machine Learning Modeling/Predictions using SKlearn since 2018. I use tools like Pandas, Apache Spark, Dask, and SQL for data science and AI projects. I have worked in Big Data Preprocessing, Data Quality, ETL, and designing Master Data. I have completed several end-to-end data science projects covering areas such as Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Deep Learning, Recommender systems, and NLP. I have worked previously in backend development, building RESTful APIs from scratch using Object-Oriented Python on Flask. I have completed the Data Science Nanodegree, Data Engineering Nanodegree (95%), and Deep Learning Nano Degree (In Progress) from Udacity. LLM: I have used OpenAI API, Whisperer API, Google Pegasus, Claude, Misteral AI, and DeepSeek all locally on GPU Clusters ranging from 7B, 22B, 70B, 8x22B, 235B