# Fuad A. > AI Product Manager @Arize AI, Fellow @Susa Ventures | ex Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter | Host @Next Iteration Podcast Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/fuad Interested in AI for the bleeding-edge. If you want to chat, reach out at fuad98ali@gmail.com www.fuadali.com (he/him/his) ## Work Experience ### Senior AI Product Manager, LLM @ Arize AI Jan 2025 – Present | New York, NY Building the future of LLM observability and evaluation. Arize is the leading AI observability platform to help AI/ML engineers discover issues, diagnose problems, and improve the results of machine learning models. In short, we are here to build world-class software that helps make AI work better. ### Co-Founder @ The Next Iteration Podcast Jan 2019 – Present | Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Scaling podcast focused on ethics, technology, and psychology to 10,000 listeners (top 5% globally) • Previous/Upcoming Guests: Nick Caldwell (VP Eng, Twitter), and Henry Peck (PM, J&J) ### Product Manager @ Federato Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Promoted from engineering to co-lead the Product Organization at Federato. Overseeing new feature development and launches across the company, defining our partnership plan with external vendors, and increasing the scalability of existing product features. ### Software Engineer @ Federato Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Building better products for risk analysis and underwriters through machine learning. Engineering across the stack, with an emphasis on user-centric design, shipping quickly, and solving real problems for actual people. ### Software Engineer @ Twitter Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States Building software to ensure the health and safety of 200 million users on the platform, keeping Twitter free of abuse, misinformation, hate speech, and extremism. ### Venture Fellow (VFP2) @ Susa Ventures Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Working on sourcing, diligence, and post-investment support as part of the Susa Fellowship program. Susa is a seed-focused firm that believes VC should be a meritocracy that funds the best ideas and teams. Their portfolio includes Robinhood, Flexport, and Viz.ai. ### Flight Software Engineer @ SpaceX Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Brownsville, Texas, United States “You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great - and that’s what being a spacefaring civilization is all about. It’s about believing in the future and thinking that the future will be better than the past. And I can’t think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars.” ### Software Engineer @ Twitter Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States • Drove Twitter’s mission of healthy conversation forward by engineering a content review system for abusive Tweets, resulting in more efficient removal of hate speech & misinformation • Built an email notification manager in Scala to reduce turnaround time for reported content by up to 25% • Using Scala to build data pipelines and content aggregation platforms ### Software Engineer @ Tesla Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California • Worked with functional programming in Scala to enable resilient and fault tolerant distributed systems applications in Kafka and Akka • Significantly shortened load times for the Tesla Mobile App by building a clustered micro-service in Kubernetes that handles massive request loads gracefully using circuit breakers and back pressure • Contributed to the hierarchical asset aggregation system for the Tesla Virtual Power Plant, enabling Autobidder ### Data Scientist @ Office of the Director of National Intelligence Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Washington D.C. Metro Area • Researching data compression techniques for high-volume, encrypted DNA data • Architecting large scale software platform to preprocess and compress DNA information ### Software Engineer @ Wealthsimple Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Toronto, Canada Area • Developed backend to increase speed and reliability of deposits and withdrawals using Ruby on Rails • Implemented filtering algorithm in Java to sort and visualize transactions between financial institutions • Architected production-grade email notification service, enabling back-end state machine to notify customers ### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Publicis Sapient Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Toronto, Canada Area • Developed a machine learning powered chatbot by employing K-Means Clustering on click-stream data • Analyzed the performance of $500 million+ eCommerce site to identify bottlenecks, resulting in faster load times ### Student Partner, McPherson Institute for Excellence in Teaching @ McMaster University Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Hamilton Ontario • Developed a new course for the Engineering Faculty • Facilitated focus groups, analyzed student sentiment, and drew conclusions based on student opinion ### Web Developer @ McMaster University Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Life Sciences Department, Chow-Fraser Lab • Visualized data using D3.js to inform research into water quality, resulting in identification of key conservation zones ### Teaching Assistant @ McMaster University Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Engineering Profession and Practice ### Software Engineer @ pickup Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Hamilton, Ontario • Ride-share startup incubated at the Forge that connects students commuting to school with drivers • Engineered a progressive web app using React and Firebase, redesigned frontend to decrease bounce rate by 20% • Utilized the Gale-Shapley algorithm to match riders with available drivers, deployed using Firebase Cloud Functions ### Multi-Organ Transplant Student Researcher @ University Health Network Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Toronto, Canada Area • Developed a machine learning algorithm in Python to detect severe liver disease, enabling early life-saving treatment • Trained and validated machine learning models by normalizing and cleaning patient data • First author on Meta-Analysis published in the Canadian Liver Journal - bit.ly/nashgen ### Youth Rugby Development Intern @ Toronto Inner-City Rugby Foundation (TIRF) Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Toronto, Canada Area • Part of a team of 40 interns that helped to introduce the sport of rugby to over 22,000 youth across inner-city Toronto • Pitched to school principals, ran house leagues, logged numbers and statistics for program participation, and recruited athletes at community centres • Collaborated with 40 other interns to schedule Rugby Festivals for 400+ children ## Education ### Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering McMaster University ### International Baccalaureate Diploma in High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates Victoria Park Collegiate Institute ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ahmedfuadali --- Source: https://flows.cv/fuad JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/fuad/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29