About Furqan
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- Carbon Re/Gigaton,Lead Machine Learning EngineerApril 2026 - Today (3 months)United KingdomCore Focus: Collaborated within a cross-functional engineering team on the end-to-end development and production deployment of machine learning algorithms for industrial process optimisation, targeting energy efficiency in heavy industries. Digital Twins: Engineered high-fidelity process digital twins utilising Bayesian optimisation, establishing robust pipelines to version and deploy serialised model artifacts to an AWS S3 model store for real-time inference.Predictive Control & Impact: Contributed to the design of multivariable predictive controllers leveraging these digital twins to achieve tight, simultaneous control of critical KPIs; helped minimise precalciner temperature standard deviation, delivering a collective £140,000 reduction in annualfuel costs.
- VoltawareHead of Energy InsightsMay 2023 - March 2026 (2 years and 10 months)Team Leadership: Led and managed a cross-functional team of Data Scientists, Data Analysts, and Machine Learning Engineers to enhance and scale Voltaware's AI energy analytics platform.Stakeholder Management: Interfaced directly with energy utilities to align technical capabilities with business intelligence demands, managing expectations and presenting complex data insights.Product Architecture: Coordinated the end-to-end architecture and algorithmic enhancements of the energy insights product, processing large volumes of smart meter time-series consumption data.Business Value: Directed the commercial deployment of the AI insights engine for a major EU energy utility, successfully scaling data-driven personalised insights to 50,000+ energy customers.
- VoltawareSenior Data ScientistJuly 2021 - May 2023 (1 year and 10 months)United KingdomProduct Development: Designed and fully implemented the first version of the AI energy analytics library to classify and disaggregate major home appliance loads based on raw time-series smart meter electricity profiles.Technical Execution: Engineered custom preprocessing and feature engineering pipelines that integrated supervised classifiers (XGBoost, Random Forests) with unsupervised learning (GMM, KMeans) to compute high-accuracy, appliance-specific cycle analytics. Coordinated the containerisation and deployment of this python-based analytics engine to AWS cloud.Key Results: Achieved 85–90% accuracy in appliance detection and cycle classification, providing the baseline algorithmic validation required for subsequent utility rollouts.
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