Donovan 💻 Grant

University of the Arts London

Imparting my knowledge in business analysis, I dispense job focused training and coaching, enabling student progression, advancing experience and ensuring wellbeing. As a business coach, I manage numerous training programmes, providing instruction and coordinating activities. Handling stakeholder communications, I partner with senior management to formulate bespoke plans. Orchestrating and facilitating groups and one to one workshops, analysing training results and testing knowledge to confirm understanding.

Here are some of the highlights of my achievements:

• Coordinating efforts with Business Analyst Managers, facilitating workshops; improving capabilities throughout business analysis teams.
• Identifying skills gaps presenting training and career coaching; enhancing careers of junior and senior staff.
• Forming strong and mutually beneficial relationships with internal and external stakeholders, collaborating with business
teams to share ideas and best practice; troubleshooting and resolving issues.
• Delivering Business Analysis on the university’s digital business transformation programme; confirming value and usability are delivered across change management plans.

Lead Business Analyst & Coach

Metadata Training

One-on-One Mentoring: Providing regular, personalised one-on-one coaching sessions to apprentices, ensuring the seamless integration of training course knowledge into practical workplace applications.

Bridging Theory and Practice: Playing a pivotal role in bridging the gap between theoretical learning and real-world workplace practices, ensuring that apprentices can effectively apply their skills.

Tailored Learning: Customising the learning process to align with the specific needs of both the employer and apprentices, ensuring that the training directly addresses the challenges faced in the workplace.

Alignment with Real-World Problems: Ensuring that apprentice learning aligns with the real problems they encounter in their day-to-day work, fostering practical problem-solving abilities.

Guiding the Learning Journey: Guiding mentees throughout their learning journey, helping them develop technical proficiency, and fostering their confidence.

Practical Skill Development: Enabling the transformation of theoretical knowledge into practical, hands-on skills, empowering apprentices to excel in their roles.

Coaching Through Challenges: Providing support and coaching to apprentices during setbacks and challenges, helping them navigate and overcome obstacles in their professional development.

Business Analyst Mentor

Heroic Public Benefit Corporation

Heroic is a dynamic platform that unites ancient wisdom, modern science, and world-class, scientifically validated tools to drive personal growth. 

In my role as a Heroic Performance Coach, I offer customised one-on-one coaching to help you unlock your fullest heroic potential and spark transformative change—one individual at a time. 

If you’re inspired, explore more at heroic.us or drop me a DM.

Heroic Performance Coach

London Metropolitan University

As a senior business analyst and coach, I executed business analysis, delivering group workshops and developing process improvements. A major part of my role, was to plan projects, share progress and evaluate results.

Here are some of the highlights of my achievements:

• Spearheaded Lecture Recording Project as part of virtual learning programme; delivered change, achieved results on time and within budget.
• Conceptualised and integrated continuous improvement initiatives, including focused project meetings; provided focused feedback and progress updates to ensure future business transformation.

Senior Business Analyst & Coach

HSBC Commercial Banking

Working with HSBC, I led requirements gathering workshops and obtained feedback from stakeholders to create business requirements documents and support the delivery of strategic initiatives and key projects.

Here are some of the highlights of my achievements:

• Motivated and coached team members; increased knowledge and confidence in use of systems, business analysis, project management and change management.
• Integrated continuous improvement initiatives; triggered improvements in reporting and strategic planning.

Visa Europe

In my role with Visa Europe, I assessed business conditions, considered project feasibility, identified areas for improvement and outlines solutions to deliver digital transformation. Partnering with internal and US stakeholders, I delivered global projects and met standards.

Here are some of the highlights of my achievements:

• Managed digital change projects; designed and instituted more transparent and secure payment options for members and customers.
• Played a pivotal role as an agile team member across three countries, mapped and documented business processes; originated improvement initiatives to achieve project deliverables.
• Contributed significantly to the launch of the new Visa Apprentice programme; delivered training and career coaching, marked assignments, tested knowledge and offered mentoring to develop a diverse range of IT professionals.

A decision maker and motivational communicator, a coordinator of key performance goals, I have coached individuals and teams to achieve digital change objectives. 

Engaging in key training activities, I am passionate about providing group and individual coaching to prepare business professionals for future business transformation. I also greatly relish new and refreshing challenges, which give me great satisfaction when I resolve issues.

A career performance coach, I deliver bootcamps providing exclusive coaching for technology professionals, enabling them to become more influential and impactful.

Presenting internal and private coaching for technology leaders and managers, I offer strategic support to enable organisational change. I am regularly called upon to deliver high performance coaching and training in value driven business analysis.

I guide business analysts and Technology professionals to move their mindset and businesses from their current position to where they want to be in the future.

As a business transformational coach and business analyst, I excel while leading challenging digital development projects and change initiatives to advance learning and improve business processes. I am a high achiever and impacting leader, with a talent for refining and advancing knowledge in business analysis, project delivery and change management within major organisations, creating and developing people and strategy to improve engagement.

As an imaginative and analytical individual, I can easily visualise the wider business, allowing me to steer change and strategic advancement to achieve results.

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𝘗𝘴. 𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵. 𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵! :)

Adway

- 39 ATS analysis & reporting to clients; improving renewal success by 70%
- Automated monthly sales reports with Python, saving 15 hours per month. 
- On our way to 100M ARR in 2025, leveraging data and tech.
- Tech stack: M365, Excel, Python, PowerPoint, Loom

Data Scientist & BI Consultant

Alterfy

Advising the software and data team in building a robust SaaS web app leveraging AI,  analytics, and data. Perform data analyst and data scientist tasks by measuring KPIs and building machine learning models.

AI & Tech Advisor

ROCK

- Led the BI using tools like BrightGauge, PowerBI, and HaloPSA to create and update over 200 reports and dashboards.
- Managed the data transition for an MSP used internally called HaloPSA which delivers a 5x growth to the company.
- Data engineering, and data science work on Microsoft Fabric (pipelines, Lakehouses, Warehouses, Notebooks...)
- Data consulting in data projects for clients.

Data Scientist

Kadogoodiz

Head of data science and analysis with the goal of fetching, cleaning, analyzing, and reporting data to senior partners.

Uhubs

+ Analyzing the data sets to extract insightful information (Python, Pandas).
+ Cleaning and feature engineering on data sets.
+ Integrated natural language processing (NLP) to analyze textual data (nltk, stemming, tokenizing).
+ Visualized insightful information (Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly)
+ Deep research on benchmarking to increase sales workflow.
+ visualizations and reporting

Consultant Data scientist

Riad coaching

Performance Coach

Setexam – The Agar Specialists

+ Maintained databases using MySQL
+ Handled part of the AWS infrastructure and migration from on-premises to the cloud
+ Cleaned data prior to training and analysis using Python (Pandas, NumPy)
+ Visualized important metrics and outputs using Matplotlib and Seaborn
+ Been part of the machine learning team and made sure to apply best practices and optimize the code.

Assistant data scientist

+ Designed maintenance software ‘Coswin 7’ and trained technical staff to use it for preventive and corrective maintenance.
+ Trained a newly hired maintenance technician to manage and use Coswin 7 for troubleshooting and effective use.
+ Automated part of the process concerning the dosing and transfer of chemicals for cleaning purposes using Allen Bradley API language.
+ Supervised and visualized in real-time the automated process via RSLogix 500.
+ Worked with IO-Link, a modern technology of sensor/actuator that was added to the company’s workflow.

Engineer Intern

Syndic8

Collective created with a bunch of friends in 2015, eager to grow the Moroccan musical scene. 
As a co-founder and musician I dealt with :

+ 10+ High-quality events all over Morocco
+ Booking 16 International renowned artists. 
+ Budgets ranging from 1000-13500£.
+ Communication over Facebook and Instagram + Ads
+ Performing live as a professional around Morocco and France

Co-Founder

+ Exploring the industrial world, API's, sensors, programs, servers, machines, supervision, maintenance...

Stagiaire en ingénierie industrielle

🤖Data Scientist | Turning Raw Data into Money Generating Insights | Data-led Growth for Your Business 🚀

Freelance Data Scientist | ML Engineer | SQL | Python | Power BI | MLOps

Data analytics and Machine learning models built 5X faster - no quality compromise. Worked with 14 clients in 7 different industries in the last 3 years. Helped current company scale to $5M+ ARR. Featured TOP RATED PLUS talent on Upwork in 2025 with 100% job completion and satisfaction.

My Toolkit:
- Data analytics: Python, SQL, Excel
- ML Engineering: FastAPI, AWS, Streamlit, great_expectations
- Data visualization: PowerPoint, PowerBI, Plotly, Matplotlib
- Data modeling: Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras
- MLOPs: CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Docker
- Additional tools: Notion, n8n, Canva, Git/GitHub

My Stats:
- 5-stars reviews on 99% of projects delivered.
- 100% Job Success Score for on-time, budget delivery.
- Helped scale currently business to $5M ARR with ATS analysis & Reporting.
- 1 year TOP RATER PLUS on Upwork.
- 1200 hours billed.
- $40k+ earned.

What You’ll Get Working With Me:
- A data analyst who is a real problem solver.
- Quick responses (within the hour on working hours)
- Clean, maintainable code and detailed documentation
- A clear “NO” if something isn’t feasible; no wasted time
- A well-crafted report or dashboard as per the requirements

My clients think:
- "Anas is great and highly knowledgeable. He is passionate about solving data science challenges and has helped me significantly streamline some of my processes, enabling better scalability.
- "Anas, was prompt and thorough and I would def use him again in the future."
- "Anas is great to work with. He made the job so fluid and his knowledge of data science makes him someone worth listening to. I’m glad I chose him for my small business. I’m looking forward to what’s coming next, and I would definitely hire him again."

Popular Clients & Products:
- Uhubs: Financial company based in London
- AllAboutGroup: Law recruitment firm based in London
- Growth Dynamics: Marketing and data strategist based in London.
- Adway: Tech and recruitment company based in Gotheborg, Sweden

About me:
- Football fan since I can remember (Real Madrid fan)
- Tennis lover and practitioner (one-handed backhand style)
- Mangas fan (One Piece, Naruto, Bleach)
- Travel addict (South Asia, Europe, Africa, America (soon))
- Reading is something I enjoy as much as coffee (oat latte fan recently)

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Request services via LinkedIn or Email below:
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Anas Riad

Generative AI is shifting fast.

These are the skills companies are already hiring for.

Been reading “Learn Mistral” by Pavel Cherkashin, and wow!

This book goes way beyond Mistral.

Yes, it walks you through how to run and build with Mistral models…
But what I really liked?

It gives you the practical GenAI foundations every builder needs right now.
No fluff, no hype, just theory + code that actually works.

Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s inside:

🤖 Local LLMs
→ How to run Mistral models locally (e.g. via Ollama)
→ Getting started with manifests, weights, and custom prompts

🧠 Tokens & Parameters
→ Understand logits, softmax, temperature, top_k…
→ Why your model outputs what it outputs

🔍 Embeddings
→ How to build your own with PyTorch or SentenceTransformers
→ Semantic search, clustering, and similarity scoring

🛠️ Agents
→ Build your own agent using the Mistral API
→ Or use n8n to drag, drop, and automate the smart way

🔎 RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
→ Covers retrieval, indexing, chunking, and generation
→ Includes real examples, not just concepts

💻 Code Assistants
→ Use Mistral inside VS Code as your coding buddy
→ Tips for better prompting and context windows

🔐 AI for Security
→ Detect anomalies, threats, and geo-based patterns
→ Use GenAI for real-world security use cases

☁️ Cloud Deployments
→ How to run Mistral on AWS (Bedrock) and GCP (Vertex AI)
→ Permissions, endpoints, and integrations that work

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Data Scientist & BI Consultant @Adway • ML Engineer • YouTube @ Anas Riad

10 Must-Know Data Analytics Tips 

(from combined 8+ years of experience)

1- Fix column types before merging
2- Use .info() and .describe() early
3- Deal with missing values
4- Use .assign() for method chaining in EDA
5- Group By summary and aggregation
6- Pivot tables for multidimensional summaries
7- Simple bar chart with Plotly
8- Apply log transform for skewed data
9- Time-based analysis (Time series)
10- Detect and visualise correlation clusters

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