Shafaq Abdullah

Founder & Managing Director

2018 - Current

Lead AI Earth Fund and AI Infrastructure to accelerate energy transition and human skills development towards sustainable planet.

Founder and CEO - Smart Last-Mile Circular Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities

2021

- Leading Go-to Market Strategy and Biz Dev - Leading AI Infrastrucutre for Sustainability/Climate Solutions with focus on Last-Mile delivery solutions - Leading AI Earth Fund to super charge climate talent and climate solutions adoption. We thank our partners, investors, mentors at Elemental Excelerator and LACI for their support and guidance throughout our journey of building towards just and sustainable planet with opportunities for all. #circulareconomy #energytransition #sustainablecities #AIforSustainability #EquityRiskFundModel

Venture Scout

2022

Founder and CEO- Parkonomik- Smart Parking for Sustainable Cities

2017 - 2024

Next-gen data-driven mobility solution. Building sustainable Cities by making underutilized parking accessible. By creating this new stream for restaurants, turned Parkonomik into profitability with $0 ad spend and subscribers using the parking app. Also led Machine Learning, AI Model for Parking Congestion-Index for demand-generation engine. #smartparking #sustainablecities #smartcities #parkingops

Advisor

2018 - 2020

Helping C-level at Twine achieve growth (user acquisition- CPNS) and profitability (retention - LTV and churn) via Data Science initiatives.

Director Data Infrastructure & Analytics

2016 - 2017

● Responsible for building product roadmap and execution, prioritization, resource scheduling across Data. ● Cross-functionally working across org to help solve use-cases,reporting and metrics for accounting, finance, growth, digital, customer service, operations and sales. ● Built a Realtime Data Platform having Data Lake and Warehouse which ingests data from multiple sources (streaming transactional logs, DSPs, Google Analytics, REST API, financial & order management systems powering recommendation engines ● Built, mentored and scaled teams ● Instilling culture of agility, innovation, transparency, challenging status-quo and data-driven ● Heading Engineering & Product for Data-Driven initiative of Honest's journey of Democratizing Data & being Descriptive -> Predictive -> Prescriptive Stack: spray, akka, spark, AWS, Redshift, Hive, Elastic search, R, scykit-learn, NLP, MLLib, kafka, Structured Streaming, Zoo keeper, maxwell, mysql, Cassandra, Oracle JDE

CoFounder & CTO

2014 - 2016

Big Data + Machine Learning + SaaS ● Building Product Roadmap, Setting Business Goals, Managing Strategic Partnerships, Helped raised > $1MM funds with $10MM projected ARR ● Heading development of horizontally scalable Multi-tenant Data Platform for ingesting, processing (NLP and Machine learning)- creating 100M node knowledge graph representing latent entities relationship and storing data from mobile (photos, apps, sensors) ensuring security and privacy from scratch. ● High-Performant, Multi-tenant Realtime SaaS with Authorization and Access control for Richer User Profile improving engagement and monetization. Spark, Hive, Spray, Akka, ElasticSearch, R, Memcache, AWS, EMR, Scala, Java

Principal Engineer - Data Engineering

2012 - 2014

Leading Metric driven scalable and highly available data transport (real-time), processing and storage platform and data-driven services (Churn API, Mobile Ad Attribution for User Acquisition) Interfaced with Marketing, BI, Growth for use-cases and requirements. Mentoring software engineers, leading architecture, design and Development, best practices for SDLC Akka/Java/Scala/Kafka/Spark/Shark/Rest API/Recommendation/Kinesis/DynamoDb/MySQL/Red Shift/GO

Principal Enigneer/ Director, Software

2011 - 2012

- Architect and develop SDK for Virtual enterprise container isolating personal space from corporate space by securing data in-tranist and at-rest on Android as BYOD solution. Strategic partner initiatives. Involved in M&A, business evaluation. - Co-authored 6 patents in the area of Mobile Applcation Management, Mobile Security , Application Wrapping, Application Tunnel for secure transfer of enterprise data on mobile platforms (including US patent# 61649134) - Design and development of push/pull services - Leading an off-shore team for enterprise mobile app development

Cofounding CTO

2011 - 2011

- Bringing predictive analytics for minimizing treatment risks - A Web application based on MonogoDB/Hadoop stack to predict outcome of surgical operation to help doctor, patient, insurance provider make an informed decision