Asad Ali

Building enterprise GenAI solutions | Careem(Uber) | x-Shopify | Mentor & Public Speaker

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

With 10 years of experience in data and tech, I am passionate about building and managing data and AI platforms that enable trusted decision making, experimentation, and innovation. I have a strong background in mathematics, statistics, as well as multiple actuarial certifications. I currently lead the Data Platform product teams at Careem (an Uber copmany), the leading super app in the Middle East and North Africa region. At Careem, I oversee the development and delivery of the Events and Analytics, Experimentation, Feature Store, Machine Learning, and AI platforms, that serve millions of customers, captains, and merchants across the region. I work closely with engineering, data science, and business teams to define the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and metrics, and to ensure alignment with the company's goals and values. I also coach, mentor and do some guest speaking to grow and give back to the community.

Experience

  • Group Product Manager - AI Platform and Applications at talabat
    Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

    Leading Gen AI product squads, focusing on workflow efficiency, consumer AI products, and shared platform capabilities.

  • Senior Product Manager - Data and AI Platform at Careem
    Aug 2022 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Led Careem’s GenAI and Data Platform teams, overseeing the GenAI platform (and applications), ML platform, feature store, event tracking, experimentation, and real-time analytics across 20 engineers and several product squads.

  • Shopify (3 yrs 2 mos)
    • Product Manager, Machine Learning Platform
      May 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Lead Data Scientist
      Jun 2019 - May 2021 · 2 yrs

  • Career Coach at The3Skills
    Mar 2020 - Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Coaching and mentoring international students find their feet in the Canadian tech industry.

  • Guest Speaker at University of Toronto
    Mar 2019 - Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    A guest speaker for the Data Science Certificate program