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Syed Ahmed Basharat Ali

Data scientist and analytics engineer in New York City. Payments, fraud, settlement and reconciliation data; metric definitions and semantic layers; experimentation and causal inference; LLM evaluation.

Open to Data Scientist, Analytics Engineer, Senior Data Analyst, Business Operations / Strategy & Operations, and Strategic Finance analytics roles, in New York or remote US.

Graduate Assistant, AI Implementation, Mercy University

New York. to present

  • University-wide Ethical AI Faculty Toolkit and GenAI literacy curriculum for 5,000+ students.
  • Implemented AI assistants for university departments.
  • Trained faculty.

Freelance Data Science & AI Consultant (own practice)

Through my own consulting practice I was the CEO's data person at Rime (rime.sa), a Saudi edge-AI retail camera startup.

Rime (client)

  • Traced an 80% upstream data loss across a 150-device fleet and shipped a staged fix.
  • Stabilized a 137 GB PostgreSQL backbone that was failing 8-hour Airbyte syncs.
  • Shipped an 11-model dbt migration across a multi-tenant Snowflake warehouse (50+ client schemas), with reconciliation and observability built from zero in Python and GitHub Actions. It surfaced two real sync issues on its first run.

Other clients

  • Bilingual Arabic/English AI assistant on OpenAI function calling for a KSA grocery-delivery startup.
  • CatBoost stock-availability prediction.

Data Scientist, Geidea

Saudi Arabia's largest payments processor. Riyadh. to

Promoted from Business Analyst within 6 months. Member of the executive strategy team.

  • Real-time ML anomaly detection in Talend ETL on 1M+ daily payment transactions (fraud and settlement errors), which evolved into production fraud models.
  • Merchant churn prediction and revenue forecasting (ARIMA, logistic regression) that informed a tiered retention strategy, cutting merchant churn from 35% to about 10% on a $5M+ revenue portfolio.
  • Segmentation of 40K+ merchants by MCC, interchange and chargeback behavior.
  • Settlement and onboarding data models covering 400K+ POS terminals.
  • Automated collections pipelines contributing to $8M+ in additional annual profit.
  • Automated Tableau platform for FinOps reconciliation, SLA tracking and interchange optimization across 5+ teams: 40% less manual reporting and 60% faster Oracle dashboards.

Senior Data Consultant, EY

Karachi. to

Founding member of the EY Pakistan Business Consulting data team.

  • Analytics, predictive modeling, audit automation and C-suite dashboards for GSK and National Foods, with a 30% adoption increase across 5+ enterprise clients and a 50% team-efficiency gain.
  • EY Pakistan internal reporting layer for partners and senior directors.
  • Supported an SAP BI implementation that reduced reporting effort by 40%.

Data Analyst, Proxima AI

Karachi. to

  • Data science solutions and reporting infrastructure contributing to 20% revenue growth.

Education

M.S. Business Analytics, Mercy University

New York.

GPA 4.0. Founder & President, Data & AI Club. Delta Mu Delta.

B.S. Computer Science, University of Karachi

Karachi

GPA 3.5.

Skills

Python, SQL, R, dbt, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Airflow, Airbyte, Talend, Tableau, Power BI, Metabase, scikit-learn, XGBoost, CatBoost, PyTorch, ARIMA, Causal inference, OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, RAG, MCP, Claude Code, Cursor, AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions.

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