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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YouTube Channel
→ GO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/anas_riad

Request services via LinkedIn or Email below:
r.riadanas@gmail.com

Anas Riad

Two months. 250M views. 700K comments.

One question: who should Steven Bartlett invite next?

I’ve always loved The Diary of a CEO.

It’s one of those podcasts that makes you think deeper, 
about business, people, and purpose.

So I decided to turn my curiosity into a real AI project.

For the past two months (on the side of my main work), I built an AI system that analysed every episode of The Diary of a CEO in 2025, every topic, every guest, every comment.

Here’s what it did:

- Ran 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀:
  - 𝗧𝗼𝗽-𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹: measuring episode performance through views, likes, and engagement metrics. Given them different weights.
  - 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀: using NLP, LLMs and SLMs to understand audience sentiment at scale
- Combined both layers to see what drives real engagement beyond the surface

This project wasn’t just about insights; it was about "learning".

I wanted to:

- Build a full 𝗲𝗻𝗱-𝘁𝗼-𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 from scratch
- Handle real, messy text data at scale (emojis, sarcasm…)
- Use AWS GPU servers for training and Streamlit for deployment
- Actually ship something meaningful

It reminded me why I love data.

You don’t need to do random tutorials or fake datasets.

You can take something you’re genuinely passionate about, podcasts, football, fitness and turn it into a real AI project that teaches you 10x more.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗸:

💻 Python, NLP, LLMs, SLMs
☁️ AWS for compute
🕓 2 months (nights + weekends)
💰 ~$100 total cost

Based on the analytics, the top 5 topics were 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵, 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲,

And the most requested guest by far was 𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸.

Who knows… 

With more time and resources, I could make this even better.

Comment below if you want me to make a detailed video on how I built this.

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

XGBoost is (still) one of the best ML models in practice.

Here’s why:

If you work with structured/tabular data, there’s a high chance XGBoost will beat most other models, even deep learning in many cases.

But what actually makes it so good?

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗫𝗚𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁?

XGBoost stands for Extreme Gradient Boosting.

It builds a group of weak learners (decision trees), each one fixing the mistakes of the previous ones.

It’s part of the gradient boosting family, but far more optimized for speed and memory.

== == == 

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝘀𝗼 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹:

- Handles missing values on its own
- Built-in regularization helps avoid overfitting
- Parallel training makes it strong on large datasets
- Tree pruning and early stopping keep the model from getting too complex
- Works for classification, regression, ranking, and can be used for time-series with feature engineering

== == == 

𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗼𝗳𝗳𝘀:

- Can train slower than random forests and simple models
- Can overfit on small datasets if not tuned
- Not as clear to read as linear models
- LightGBM is sometimes faster on huge datasets, but results are often similar

== == == 

𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲:

- n_estimators → number of trees
- max_depth → how deep each tree can grow
- learning_rate → how strong each new tree is
- subsample, colsample_bytree → add randomness for stability
- gamma, lambda, alpha → regularization
- (Optional but strong) min_child_weight → helps avoid overfitting

== == == 

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘁:

- You’re working with cleaned tabular data
- You care about accuracy more than full explainability
- You want strong results without complex deep learning setups
- You don’t have GPU power for heavy neural nets
- You need a strong baseline for both competitions and real work

XGBoost is not flashy.
But it’s reliable, fast, and gets the job done when tuned well.

📌 Save this post for your next ML project.

95% of data scientists who reach out to me

Have this 1 thing in common ⤵️ 

“They excel at building ML models in a notebook”
but "They struggle to build something beyond a Demo"

Look, I’m not against notebooks, but that mindset is restrictive.

If your project only:

→ runs on your machine
→ uses static data (all clean)
→ isn’t deployed and usable

Then it’s a "SIMPLE" demo, not a "REAL" data project.

In my recent journey to bridge the gap, I’ve decided to collaborate with Markus Kuehnle on a detailed carousel that includes major points of an end-to-end ML project, such as:

→ Setting project environment
→ Exploratory data analysis
→ Feature Engineering
→ Model Registry & Experiment Tracking
→ Feature, training, inference pipelines
→ Serving layer (FastAPI)
→ Docker container (reproducibility)
→ GitHub Actions (CI/CD)
→ Deployment & monitoring

Hope it gives you more clarity on what it takes to build and deploy an ML model end to end.

PS: Find hands-on tutorials on this on my YouTube channel

📌 Save this for your next project.
♻️ Repost this to help your network in data.

Machine Learning End-to-End pipeline

The number one thing that 10x’d my life.
Personal and professional combined.

It’s sending a short recorded video with Loom.

→ When applying for jobs, adding a short video makes it personal.
→ When doing outreach, a quick recording shows you did your research.
→ When a colleague needs help but can’t meet, a short video solves it.
→ When a friend asks for feedback on a post, I send a quick video.
→ When working on a SaaS or project, a weekly recording keeps progress visible.

It builds trust, saves time, and makes communication human again.

What’s your main cheat code to improve work or relationships in the digital world?

Before: MVP in 90 days.

Now: MVP in 6 hours.

There’s no excuse not to build anymore, 
not with 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗶𝘁.

Whether it’s a business idea, a personal project, or a side hustle, you can now bring it to life using plain English.

No setup. No API keys. No coding skills needed.

Why Replit stands out

* Build in plain English.
* Vibe code anywhere.
* All-in-one workspace.
* AI integrations built-in. 
* Connect your tools.

Creators are already using Replit to:

* Launch SaaS ideas over a weekend
* Build AI-powered dashboards
* Automate boring workflows
* Turn sketches into real, working apps

I recently used it to build a data analytics scoping app, something that used to take days, done in under an hour.

Replit makes it possible to build ideas, not just talk about them.

Try it for yourself → https://replit.com

PS: Tag me if you build something cool, I’d love to see what you create.

Future Africa

This mentorship program is designed to cultivate a new generation of African leaders equipped with the knowledge and skills to develop and implement effective policies. By focusing on policy analysis, development, and communication, the program aims to empower young Africans to contribute meaningfully to the continent's socio-economic development. Through a structured approach that encompasses research, writing, and presentation, my mentees will gain a comprehensive understanding of the policy process and its impact on African societies. The mentorship component will provide essential guidance and support, fostering a collaborative learning environment.

Future Africa Mentor 2024

University of Maryland

I am not just mastering the project lifecycle from initiation to closure, but also learning the art of knowledge management to keep teams on the same page. 
The real magic here lies in storytelling-I am developing the ability to craft compelling narratives around projects. This includes crafting pitches that get buy-in (minimal viable story), framing the project in a positive light to emphasize its benefits and even weaving stories that teach and motivate. 
By the end, I’ll be a project manager who can not only handle the technical aspects but also effectively communicate the project’s purpose and inspire those involved.

I am becoming a project management professional who can not only manage the “how” but also effectively communicate the “why” and “what” through impactful storytelling.

Director of Program Services

Creative Conscience

This is a global platform that trains, rewards and supports creative thinkers to focus their talents on social environmental impACT projects

Creative Impact

Gain Digital

Founder at Gain Digital

World Spirit of the Game Foundation (SotG Global)

Regional Director Youth Program (Kenya )

Future Africa Scholar

World Bank Group Youth Summit

From the Ground Up: Local Solutions to Drive Global Impact (2023 Theme)

World Bank Youth Summit 2023 Delegate

Digify Africa

I am able to create brand strategies, audience building for startups, SEO, Social Media Marketing and Management, Content Marketing and optimize Web Analytics for brands and companies.

Digify Africa Intern

Liane Boutique

I got experienced as a Sales Attendant selling and purchasing fashion products to clients 
I am now able to offer  customer care services and also I have developed a clients satisfactory alignment

Sales Attendant

The National Treasury of Kenya, Ministry of Planning

I got experienced as a Librarian, Information Officer, Administration Assistant and as  Receptionist

Information Scientist

Driving Digital Innovation for a Sustainable Future | Knowledge Management Enthusiast | Entrepreneur

Hello, I'm Leigh. 👋

Being a Knowledge and Digital Strategist with a passion for helping people become brands and succeed online, I am dedicated to empowering generations through my understanding of how information shapes human behavior. With a love for learning and acquiring knowledge, I am constantly seeking new and innovative ways to support communities in leveraging their online presence.

I work closely with my clients to develop and implement effective, tailored solutions that drive growth and success.

I am interested in the intersection of technology and development globally and that's why I am working towards equipping brands with the worldwide required skills in order to decrease the inequality gap through talent, knowledge management and advocating for digital and information literacy.

My goal is to apply my skills to bring in solid and positive outcomes and to continuously develop my leadership capabilities while advocating for key sustainable developments.

I'm currently combining my experiences with my thirst for knowledge by pursuing a Program Management and the Art of Communication program at the University of Maryland. This program is allowing me to hone my project management skills while mastering the art of storytelling – the secret sauce to project success.

As a Creative Impact Program participant, I'm surrounded by a global network of creative minds, all focused on using their talents to tackle social and environmental challenges.

I equip you with the tools and inspiration to create positive change through social storytelling and digital communication.

I'm here to bridge the gap between technical expertise and human connection. By harnessing the power of storytelling and communication, I aim to make projects not just successful but truly inspiring.


Feel free to browse through my LinkedIn profile, which serves as part of my portfolio.

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