Alaa Awad is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Etsy, where he is a tech lead on the Ad Ranking team. With a decade of experience as a software engineer, he has honed his expertise in several industries including healthcare, automotive, and finance. Over the past five years, Alaa has focused on applied data science, leveraging his knowledge to build end-to-end machine learning systems at scale used for search, ad-bidding, recommendations, and computer vision.