Data Scientist & Data Engineer

I turn messy data into pipelines and models people can trust.

A junior data engineer and data scientist with a background in business informatics. I work end to end — building the pipelines, then the models on top — and I care about results that hold up under scrutiny.

Ali Akil

About

I care about the part of machine learning that's easy to skip: checking whether a model is genuinely better before I trust the number.

I came to data from business informatics. I like the whole loop: framing the question, building the dataset — and the pipeline that feeds it — when neither exists yet, then testing the result until it holds up.

My main project, OIRseg, took a segmentation model from a few hundred hand-drawn masks to a validated web app that scores Dice 0.916 on its primary class — data pipeline, model, and deployment end to end. I want more work like that, where careful labeling and honest evaluation lead to something that actually ships.

Toolbox

Languages & Data

  • SQL
  • NumPy
  • Python
  • Pandas
  • Polars
  • DuckDB

Machine Learning

  • SciPy
  • CatBoost
  • statsmodels
  • scikit-learn

Deep Learning & CV

  • PyTorch
  • ImageJ / Fiji
  • TensorFlow / Keras
  • segmentation-models-pytorch

LLM, RAG & Agents

  • RAG
  • chunking
  • LangChain
  • reranking
  • embeddings
  • Fine-tuning
  • Vector databases
  • Multi-agent orchestration

Serving & Apps

  • FastAPI
  • Streamlit
  • Hugging Face Spaces

Cloud & Data Eng

  • Spark
  • MySQL
  • Databricks
  • Azure (Synapse, ADLS)
  • GCP (BigQuery, Cloud Run)

BI & Viz

  • Plotly
  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • Looker Studio

MLOps & Quality

  • ruff
  • Docker
  • pytest
  • pre-commit
  • Git / GitHub Actions
  • Evaluation & observability

Selected Work

A few things I've built.

OIRseg — Retinal Image Segmentation

A multi-class U-Net (PyTorch) that measures disease zones in mouse retinal images, replacing hours of manual tracing per image. It scores Dice 0.916 on the primary class and ships as a Streamlit app on Hugging Face with a FastAPI endpoint.

Life Points — Nutrition & Activity Analytics

An offline-first PWA for logging activities and meals against daily calorie and macro targets. Its Insights tab smooths noisy weight logs with a 7-day moving average and forecasts goal-weight dates using an energy-balance model.

Classical ML Studies

Several scikit-learn studies from my data bootcamp. The house-price models went through four iterations of pipelines and feature engineering. Others include a CatBoost mushroom-edibility classifier from a Kaggle challenge and K-Means song clustering with PCA for mood-based playlists.

PubMed RAG

A privacy-first RAG system over 980+ PubMed abstracts on retinal disease. Embeddings run locally, so only the final question leaves the machine. A FastAPI service returns citation-grounded answers, and it plugs into OIRseg to interpret segmentation results against the literature.

Let's work together.

Open to data science roles and collaborations. The fastest way to reach me is email.