Ahmad Baracat

Essays Teaching Apps & Games Reading

Me ๐Ÿ˜…

๐Ÿš€ I believe that startups are the key drivers of economic growth and innovation. Read Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant articles to understand what wealth means for me.

๐Ÿ’ป I used to work at Amazon (Dynamic Advertising & Alexa) & Meta (Facebook) where my focus was on machine learning engineering and computer vision.

๐Ÿ‘พ I enjoy training and deploying computer vision deep learning models for classification, object detection and segmentation ranging from multi-band Satellite images and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) images to customer facing images for Amazon Alexa.

โค๏ธ My interests include entrepreneurship, education, design, engineering, economics and cognitive psychology

๐Ÿ•น 10 years ago, I created games for Windows Phone (I bet on Windows Phone and obviously lost ๐Ÿ˜…). Along with my brother, who created the visual designs, we created 5+ games. Some were featured by Microsoft in 150+ countries. Check them out.

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ I am from Egypt where I lived in Cairo for 26 years and I have been living in the UK ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง (Edinburgh & London) for the past few years.

๐ŸŽน I played the Piano seriously (thank you Mami & Nana) from age 7-19 (earned Trinity College London grade 8) and casually since then. You can listen to me playing on SoundCloud & Youtube.

๐ŸŽพ I played Tennis seriously (thank you Papi) from age 7-16 and casually since then.

๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธI love to run and usually run ~6km in 30 mins and occasionally longer distances.

๐Ÿ“š I love to read. I keep track of the books I read here.

๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿซ I love to teach. I created data science lectures in Arabic. You can check their page. They are available on SkillShare and Youtube.

โœ๏ธ I enjoy writing essays. You can read them on my blog.

๐Ÿฆฆ My favorite animals are beavers as they have strong family bonds and their engineering work can literally change the landscape. Watch this National Geographic documentary to learn more.

Timeline & Highlights

2022

2020-2021

Machine Learning in Marketing

2017-2020

Machine Learning & Computer Vision

2011-2016

Mobile Games & Apps