Ahsan Ahmad # Director of Data Science & AI Location Chicago, United StatesDesired Salary UnspecifiedWork preference On-site / Full TimeLinks Status Open to offers Field / Industry Data Science & Analytics * SharePreferences:Job Level: LeadRelocation: NoNotice Period: ImmediateCategory: Data Science & AnalyticsSkill Assessments:This user has not passed any tests yet No languages specified. Report [Overview](#overview) * [Portfolio](#portfolio) ## About Me Data Science and AI leader with 9+ years of experience across healthcare, pharmacy, retail, and enterprise environments, specializing in analytics strategy, predictive modeling, patient engagement, geospatial analytics, retail intelligence, and AI-driven decision systems. Proven ability to lead cross-functional analytics initiatives, translate complex data into executive-ready insights, and build scalable AI and healthcare analytics solutions using Python, SQL, R, Snowflake, Databricks, NLP, LLMs, and cloud-based ML platforms. ## Skills ### [Python](https://jobicy.com/talent/python.md)[SQL](https://jobicy.com/talent/sql.md)[AWS](https://jobicy.com/talent/aws.md)[Kubernetes](https://jobicy.com/talent/kubernetes.md)[Docker](https://jobicy.com/talent/docker.md)[Azure](https://jobicy.com/talent/azure.md)[CI CD](https://jobicy.com/talent/ci-cd.md)[Machine Learning](https://jobicy.com/talent/machine-learning.md)[GCP](https://jobicy.com/talent/gcp.md)[Tableau](https://jobicy.com/talent/tableau.md)[Power BI](https://jobicy.com/talent/power-bi.md)[A B Testing](https://jobicy.com/talent/a-b-testing.md)[ETL](https://jobicy.com/talent/etl.md)[R](https://jobicy.com/talent/r.md)[Snowflake](https://jobicy.com/talent/snowflake.md)[Databricks](https://jobicy.com/talent/databricks.md)[Business Intelligence](https://jobicy.com/talent/business-intelligence.md)[Spark](https://jobicy.com/talent/spark.md)[Data Warehousing](https://jobicy.com/talent/data-warehousing.md)[MLOps](https://jobicy.com/talent/mlops.md)[NLP](https://jobicy.com/talent/nlp.md)[MLFlow](https://jobicy.com/talent/mlflow.md)[KPI Analysis](https://jobicy.com/talent/kpi-analysis.md)[Healthcare Analytics](https://jobicy.com/talent/healthcare-analytics.md)[Recommendation Systems](https://jobicy.com/talent/recommendation-systems.md)[Sagemaker](https://jobicy.com/talent/sagemaker.md)[Model Monitoring](https://jobicy.com/talent/model-monitoring.md)[Streamlit](https://jobicy.com/talent/streamlit.md)[LangGraph](https://jobicy.com/talent/langgraph.md)[Gradio](https://jobicy.com/talent/gradio.md)[Cohere](https://jobicy.com/talent/cohere.md)[LLMs)](https://jobicy.com/talent/llms.md) ## Experience Director of Data Science & AI @ DIGITALYTICS.AI Nov 2025 - Present Lead data science, analytics, and AI initiatives across healthcare, pharmacy, retail, and enterprise clients. Design predictive analytics and AI-driven engagement solutions, manage cross-functional initiatives, and lead development of healthcare analytics platforms. Also worked as an AI/ML consultant for CVS Health on retail analytics and operational intelligence solutions. Senior Healthcare Data Researcher @ WALGREENS CO. Jul 2024 - Oct 2025 Partnered with senior leadership on digital transformation and applied AI initiatives across clinical healthcare, pharmacy analytics, patient engagement, and enterprise data science programs. Designed scalable analytics workflows and multimodal data integration pipelines using Snowflake and Databricks, and led geospatial analytics-driven patient outreach systems. Senior Data Scientist @ AUTUMN8 AI Jan 2022 - Jul 2024 Led analytical research and model evaluation initiatives focused on machine learning deployment efficiency, operational scalability, enterprise AI performance, and production readiness. Developed an ML toolkit for model recommendation and contributed to an AutoDL platform with pre-deployment SLA analysis. Machine Learning Engineer @ VOLTAIRE.AI Jun 2020 - Dec 2021 Developed predictive recommendation systems and personalization models supporting targeted marketing, customer engagement, audience segmentation, and campaign optimization. Built analytics-driven email recommendation systems and worked extensively with AWS technologies and distributed ML deployment environments. Data Scientist @ VEON TELECOM COMPANY Jan 2018 - Nov 2019 Created NLP and analytics algorithms to process customer feedback and improve customer satisfaction. Led a team of two ML engineers on churn analysis and prediction, mentored interns, and collaborated with data warehouse and engineering teams on production analytics workflows. ## Education DePaul University Mar 2022 Master of Science, Data Science FAST NUCES University Jul 2019 Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Portfolio not available.