Imtihan Ahmed

Imtihan Ahmed is a highly experienced Senior Machine Learning Engineer currently working at Pinterest since August 2024, focusing on building machine learning pipelines for web crawling and automatic content extraction as part of the shopping content mining team. Prior to this role, Imtihan held a similar position at Mozilla.ai, where expertise in large language models was applied to enhance performance through fine-tuning and integration of evaluation frameworks. Previous experience at Meta involved significant advancements in machine learning models for creator recommendations, leading to improved user engagement. Imtihan's career also includes roles at Wish, IBM, Cisco, and Apple, complemented by academic contributions as a teaching assistant and graduate researcher at the University of Toronto, where involvement in software project management and machine learning education was notable. Imtihan holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Alberta.