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Farhan Zaidi
Farhan Zaidi has over 25 years of experience in Software Architecture, Data Engineering and software development in a variety of languages and technologies. He is skilled in designing data-driven, enterprise-grade software systems, as well as Embedded Systems and Systems Programming. His recently co-founded DreamAI with a vision to apply Deep Learning technology in a variety of domains, with a special focus on Computer Vision for Medical Diagnosis, Natural Language Processing and general Predictive Analytics for business problems.
Farhan holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering, Lahore, Pakistan. He has worked for several Silicon-Valley companies in the past in the US as a Senior Software Engineer, and also held key positions in Software industry in Pakistan. Farhan also provides training and consultancy services on Python, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Advanced Predictive Analytics. He is the author of a Video course on Machine Learning with Python, published by Packt Publishers UK in September 2018 and also given hands-on trainings on Python and Machine Learning in collaboration with one of Pakistan’s premier Universities as part of a skills enhancement program for working professionals and graduating students. He has also written blog articles on applying Deep Learning for Computer Vision problems and is actively involved in solving real-world problems. Further details of his work can be found at Linkedin
Umar Murtaza
More than 25 years of experience in Linux/UNIX Systems from small scale infrastructure to large data centers. Worked in the fast-paced financial market in New York Manhattan for more than 5 years. Worked on Data Center Migrations, building Disaster Recovery Sites (Data Centers) and Linux Farmhouse.
Designed and developed DevOps infrastructure on cloud (Amazon Web Services and Oracle Cloud). Hands-on in setting up scalable infrastructure, automation, monitoring, and continuous integration and deployment pipelines. Replicated the complete production infrastructure with Terraform. Managed a team of DevOps Engineers to build and support IoT based home security and automation system (goabode.com), with more than 40k active clients. Conducted workshops on Linux/UNIX Administration, Shell Scripting, Ethical Hacking, DevOps, and Python. Developed a video course on "Professional DevOps" for Packt Publishing. After a strong Linux and then DevOps background, stepping into machine learning/data science. Did "Data Scientist with Python" track certification from DataCamp.com, few other MOOCs from Coursera and edX, worked on a few projects with clients in Europe.
An AWS Certified Solutions Architect did a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan and Masters in Information Technology from the University of Maryland, USA.
Hamza Farhan
Hamza Farhan is the youngest player of DreamAI team. However, his talent, passion for Machine Learning and Deep Learning technologies and the capacity to perform relentless hard work has made him a key part of our team in a short time. After graduating with a BS in Computer Science in 2018, he joined the team and has since worked on building several Deep learning models, applications and prototypes.
He has worked on Medical Image Analysis, Image Segmentation, resolution enhancement, Food Ingredients classification and Emotion Recognition to name a few. He is well versed in building complex models and algorithms, implementing research papers efficiently and achieving excellent results through extensive experimentation. He plays a key role in the growth and success of the company and has contributed significantly to business development. His main expertise is in Python and the Pytorch Deep Learning framework.