Ahmad Baracat

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Me πŸ˜…

🦾 Building ko-br: physical AI for warehouse robots. Might pivot to cute educational bots 🧑

🏠 Cairo for 26 years β†’ London for 8 years. Now between Cairo/London/SF

πŸš€ Startups = economic growth engines. Read Paul Graham and Naval on wealth

πŸ’» ML at Amazon Alexa & Meta WhatsApp

🍏 Agritech startup with Wuyang during COVID: Cold-called farmers, landed UK's #2 apple producer. Built drone yield estimation MVP in weeks

πŸ‘Ύ Love training computer vision models: satellite β†’ SEM β†’ Alexa β†’ Robots

❀️ Interests: Entrepreneurship, education, design, engineering, economics, cognitive psychology

πŸ•Ή Created Windows Phone games featured in 150+ countries with Aley

πŸ’ͺ Exceptional Talent (Global Talent) visa: Left Amazon during depression, built a startup visa-free. Best year of my life

🏹 Practiced surfing πŸ„πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ, horse riding πŸ‡πŸ», swimming πŸŠπŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ and archery 🏹 in UK

🎹 Piano since age 7 (Trinity grade 8) thanks Mum & Nana. SoundCloud | YouTube

🎾 Tennis since age 7 (casual now) thanks Dad

πŸƒ Run ~6km/30min (occasionally longer)

πŸ“š Track my reading

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ« Taught data science in Arabic: courses on SkillShare/Youtube

✏️ Essays on blog

🦦 Beavers are my favorite animals: family bonds & landscape engineers. Watch this