Zaid Hijazi

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Staff ML Engineer at Check Point Software · ML infrastructure · feature stores, Kubeflow

Check Point Software
Doha, Qatar · AST (UTC+3)
8+ years experience
University of Jordan
English, Arabic
Advising
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Overview

8 years in software engineering, the last 1 at Check Point Software, where I work on the ML platform team. Reduced cloud spend on ML platform by 26% in two quarters. Before that: PwC and Google. Most at home with Kubeflow and Python. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on experimentation
  • Second opinions on Python decisions
  • Working sessions on feature stores
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Survey or panel invitations
  • Offshore staffing offers

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
feature storesmodel servingPythonPostgreSQLKubeflow
AdvisingOpen to advising
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Office hours for career switchers into engineering: ML infrastructure and PostgreSQL

Topics
experimentation, PostgreSQL, Python
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Free for early founders
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Two calls a month
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Engineers moving into leadership

8 years of ML infrastructure. One call a month or async reviews.

Doha, Qatar · remote OKkubeflowfeature storespostgresql
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Experience

  1. Staff ML Engineer
    Jan 2026 - Present
    Check Point Software · 9 mo · Contract · Doha, Qatar
    • Ran 150 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.
    • Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 3 weeks to 6 days.
  2. ML Engineer
    Nov 2023 - Jan 2026
    PwC · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Ran 225 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.
  3. ML Engineer
    Feb 2021 - Aug 2023
    Google · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Replaced 116 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  4. ML Engineer
    Jun 2019 - Feb 2021
    Fawry · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Taught SQL to 109 non-analysts.
  5. ML Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
    du · 8 mo · Full-time · Doha, Qatar
    • Replaced 89 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Taught SQL to 69 non-analysts.

Projects

Experimentation benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing model serving and Kubeflow on real workloads.

Write-up: experimentation in practice
2023

A long-form guide to experimentation for people starting out.

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Education

  1. University of Jordan
    BSc, Computer Engineering
    2013 - 2017

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