Asad Mahmood

Asad Mahmood has a diverse range of work experience. Asad worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Clinical Ink starting in 2023. Prior to that, they were a Software Engineer at Propay (Pty) Ltd from March 2023 to May 2023. At Propay, they worked on developing and maintaining a member-based platform using PHP and the Laravel framework. Asad also worked on a Unified payment platform and optimized communication between services using Python and Kafka.

Before joining Propay, Asad worked as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon from July 2022 to March 2023. Asad was part of the Physical Stores team and contributed to the development of a React-based frontend and Java-based backend for a receipt lookup feature. Asad also worked on setting up internal services using AWS services like CloudFormation, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, API Gateway, and Lambda.

From July 2021 to July 2022, Asad worked as a Full-Stack AI/ML Engineer - NLP at GSK. Asad worked on a Knowledge Graph project, developing a React-based frontend application with search engine capabilities, Named Entity Recognition (NER), and Relation Extraction (RE) tools. Asad used Semantic UI React and Recoil JS for frontend development.

Asad also has experience working at the University of Iowa, where they served as a Teaching Assistant from January 2019 to May 2021 and as a Research Assistant from August 2018 to September 2020. Asad'sresearch involved using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to enhance user privacy. Asad developed tools such as Mutant-X, an authorship obfuscation tool, and Obfuscation Detection, which utilized pre-trained language models for text analysis.

Furthermore, Asad worked as an AI/ML Engineer at GSK from May 2020 to August 2020, where they designed and implemented pipelines for fine-tuning BioBERT on Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks. Additionally, they added BioBERT models to existing information extraction pipelines and integrated Metamap Entity Linking into existing APIs.

Before their roles at GSK, Asad worked as a Research Assistant at Lahore University of Management Sciences. Asad worked on various projects, including a reverse image search tool, automated detection of inappropriate video content on YouTube, and in-game analysis of soccer matches using a proprietary dataset.

Overall, Asad Mahmood has a strong background in software engineering, AI/ML, and research, and has worked with various technologies and industry-leading companies.

Asad Mahmood pursued their Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences from 2014 to 2018. Following this, they went on to obtain their Master's degree in Computer Science at the University of Iowa from 2018 to 2021.