Ammar Alyousfi
ammar.alyousfi@outlook.com | +971 50 952 4537
- I'm a data science manager with 3+ years of experience in building end-to-end data products from idea to deployment, managing and analyzing billions of data points to create insightful tools used for brands like Toyota and Gillette among others.
- My work has been featured on TechCrunch, The Hustle (2M readers,) Tubefilter, and Hacker News front page.
- Extensive experience in Python, SQL, big data tools like BigQuery and Athena, and cloud services (AWS and GCP.)
- Solid foundation with a Master’s degree in data science from a prominent university.
Employment
Senior Data Science Manager @ Touchstorm | NY, United States (Remote)
September 2022 - Present
Data Science Manager @ Touchstorm | NY, United States (Remote)
July 2020 - August 2022
- Built YouTube Listening Tool which allows brands to see who is talking about them on YouTube and what they are saying. This includes video reporting, influencer monitoring, sentiment tracking, product success analysis, and comparisons with competitors on all of these aspects.
- Developed Channel Performance tool which allows brands to track how they are doing on YouTube with tens of insightful visualizations covering every aspect of channel performance.
- Built a tool to explore trends on YouTube for any topic by doing an advanced analysis of hundreds of billions of data points.
- Built robust data pipelines to sync hundreds of gigabytes of data from a MySQL database to a data lake to enable immensely faster processing and analysis of the data. This enabled creating powerful products that make use of data collected over the years.
Student Mentor @ Udacity | CA, United States (Remote)
May 2020 - August 2020
- Reviewed and assessed student projects in the AI for Healthcare specialization.
February 2020 - August 2020
- Worked on projects in data analysis, NLP, data scraping, and automation. Had a 100% Job Success score.
Data Science Intern @ Boost Connect | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
April 2019 - July 2019
- Performed extensive data analysis on millions of records which uncovered useful business insights.
Education
Master of Data Science @ University of Malaya | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
- GPA:3.98/4 (with distinction)
- Research project : built and deployed a machine-learning system to predict taxi-trip duration.
- Relevant courses: Data Analytics, Data Mining, Machine Learning for Data Science, Big Data Application and Analytics.
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering @ Princess Sumaya University for Technology | Amman, Jordan
Sep 2012 - Sep 2016
- GPA: 93.9% (first rank)
Projects
Analysis of all YouTube trending videos in the US in 2019: Got featured on The Hustle newsletter (2M+ readers) as the lead story, TechCrunch, Hacker News' front page, Social Blade, Tubefilter, and others.
Analysis of 40,000+ international football matches between 1872 and 2018
Kaggle competitions: Participated in machine-learning competitions on Kaggle and ranked in the top 5% in one of them.
Analysis of stock prices in Malaysia: Analyses applied included sentiment analysis, stock-prices correlation, investment recommendation, and clustering.
Skills
Concepts: Data analysis, business intelligence, data visualization & dashboarding, big data management and analysis, end-to-end product development, machine learning, NLP, computer vision, full-stack software developement.
Programming Languages: Python, SQL, JavaScript, R.
Cloud Computing: AWS (Athena, Glue, DMS, Lambda, EC2, QuickSight, etc.), Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Natural Language, Vision, Vertex AI, etc.)
Frameworks & Tools: Pandas, Plotly, Dash, Looker Studio, Streamlit, Jypyter Notebook/Lab, Matplotlib, MySQL, Flask, Django, HTML, CSS, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Git, Selenium.
Languages: English: fluent; Arabic: native.
Certifications
IBM Data Science Professional Certificate [9 courses] (2019)
Certificate of the completion of SAS Graduate Joint Certificate Program Curriculum in Data Science (2019)
Outstanding student award certificate (2015)
