Burhan Qaddoumi
Professional Experience
Crexi Incorporated
Data Engineer (Data Science Team)
Cross functional engineer supporting the data science team for enhancing commercial real estate data products.
- Established platform projected to reduce operation costs $1.5M and expedite data extraction process 20%, as well as provide labeled datasets for fine tuning and evaluating LLMs or multimodal models.
- Selected for the tiger team created to build a POC Agentic system using LangGraph, Kafka, AWS, and OpenAI.
- Investigated table structure recognition (TSR) performance metrics for evaluating production unstructured data extraction pipeline. Discovered error in research publication open source code and submitted pull request.
Ultralytics Incorporated
ML Community Manager
Part-time manager of online communities and developer advocacy program, with two direct reports, of open source software (OSS) deep learning computer vision (CV) developer with +70M downloads and +200k daily active users.
- Built and managed online developer communities from the ground up, achieving over 1k daily online users.
- Organized, coordinated, and speaker on panel discussion at an international live streamed event.
Solutions Engineer
Involved with software development, product improvement, and customer success for CV OSS startup.
- Achieved optimized model deployment up to 45% faster by improving TensorRT export and INT8 quantization.
- Delivered product enhancement in the form of a VS Code extension for accelerating developer productivity.
- Flourished in the startup environment, voluntarily leading projects, workshops, meetings, and process improvement.
Tetra Bio Distributed
Prototype Design & Development Engineer
Founding engineer of non-profit building innovative open-source medical devices.
- Co-authored research publication for a medical device accessory, achieving 80% improvement in pass/fail tests.
- Rapidly enhanced product designs using finite element analysis (FEA) and fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations.
Wolfspeed Incorporated
Process Engineer - ML/CV Software Engineer
Establishing CV models for process inspection in semiconductor wafer fabrication.
- Delivered 330% increase in training dataset within 30 days of start, with domain specific synthetic data generation.
- Demonstrated POC classification model achieving 98% precision, vastly outperforming prior 18 months of efforts.
Corning Incorporated
Process Inspection Development Engineer
Delivered industrial CV models and established ML development processes, defect detection and classification.
- Improved PyTorch model performance (all classes) 5-7%, by detecting label errors in training dataset.
- Shortened data annotation time 40% using traditional CV, model-assisted labeling, and advanced data analysis.
Measurements Engineer
Establish measurement systems for process control and defect detection for display glass division.
- Developed and launched an optical system for glass defect (fractography) inspection analysis.
Micatu Incorporated
Mechanical Design Engineer & CAD Admin
Prototype to production design of all projects for optical measurement systems and ePDM vault admin.
- Made improvements to mechanical documentation and simplified product designs for improved scalability.
- Optimized polymer 3D printer output 3x, maintained 24/7 uptime, and reduced material costs by over 50%.
Education
-
Bachelor of Science - Physics - Magna cum Laude
Certifications
Institution | Certificate | Program |
---|---|---|
NVIDIA | DLI | Computer Vision for Industrial Inspection |
NVIDIA | DLI | Fundamentals of Deep Learning |
Solidworks | CSWA | Mechanical Design |
Solidworks | Admin | PDM |