Skip to content
View CarlChaaya's full-sized avatar

Block or report CarlChaaya

Block user

Prevent this user from interacting with your repositories and sending you notifications. Learn more about blocking users.

You must be logged in to block users.

Content in all repositories owned by your account will be closed.
Maximum 250 characters. Please don’t include any personal information such as legal names or email addresses. Markdown is supported. This note will only be visible to you.
Report abuse

Contact GitHub support about this user’s behavior. Learn more about reporting abuse.

Report abuse
CarlChaaya/README.md

Carl Etienne Chaaya

Associate at Kearney focused on Digital & Analytics engagements, blending operations strategy with data science and AI engineering. I turn ambiguous business problems into measurable impact—whether it is right-sizing medical rosters, forecasting critical supplies, or automating trading workflows.

Snapshot

  • Role: Associate, Digital & Analytics @ Kearney (based in Dubai, serving clients across the Middle East)
  • Background: BE Electrical & Computer Engineering (Artificial Intelligence emphasis), American University of Beirut
  • Focus areas: Applied machine learning, optimisation, time-series forecasting, productisation of analytics solutions
  • Community: 500+ professional connections, 2K+ followers, active mentor and curriculum contributor in AI communities

Experience

Period Role & Organisation Highlights
2024 → Present Associate, Kearney Lead cross-functional teams delivering analytics transformations; manage workstreams from discovery to implementation.
2023 → 2024 Senior Business Analyst, Kearney Built LLM-enabled tooling, designed data platforms, and delivered AI roadmaps for regional clients.
2022 → 2023 Business Analyst, Kearney Embedded with Advanced Data Analytics practice; delivered ML/AI proofs of concept and operational dashboards.
2021 Teaching & Research Assistant, American University of Beirut Supported ML and AI coursework; researched reinforcement learning applications.
2020 Machine Learning Engineer Intern, Zaka Authored ML curriculum content and implemented analytical models for education partners.

Certifications & Skills

  • DeepLearning.AI: Deep Learning Specialization, Generative AI with Large Language Models
  • DataCamp: Machine Learning for Finance, Time Series Analysis
  • Technical stack: Python · Flask · FastAPI · PyTorch · Stable Baselines3 · OR-Tools · PuLP · Pandas · NumPy · SQL · Azure · Docker · GitHub Actions
  • Methods: Operations research, LLM applications, computer vision, time-series forecasting, reinforcement learning

Selected Projects

  • Duty Scheduler — Production-ready Flask service generating balanced medical intern duty rosters with optimisation and Excel export workflows.
  • Volunteer Workforce Scheduler — OR-Tools CP-SAT optimiser and Tkinter UI used by Lebanese Red Cross teams for fast roster creation.
  • Bitcoin RL Trader — Stable Baselines3 DDPG trading agent with Alpaca paper-trading integration and CLI deployment.
  • Gym Rubiks Cube Solver — Custom OpenAI Gym environment and DQN notebooks achieving 83% 3×3 cube solve accuracy.
  • PPE Inventory Forecasting — ARIMA-based forecasting workflow predicting protective equipment consumption for emergency services.
  • AgriDoc — YOLOv5 fine-tuning for crop disease detection across agricultural imagery datasets.

Let’s Connect

Pinned Loading

  1. CarlChaaya CarlChaaya Public

    AI & optimisation engineer building scheduling, forecasting, and trading systems.

  2. AgriDoc AgriDoc Public

    YOLOv5 model fine-tuned for disease detection in agriculture

    Python

  3. bitcoin-rl-trader bitcoin-rl-trader Public

    Stable Baselines3 DDPG agent for Alpaca paper-trading Bitcoin

    Jupyter Notebook

  4. gym-rubiks-cube gym-rubiks-cube Public

    Custom OpenAI Gym environment and DQN notebooks for solving the 3x3 Rubik's Cube

    Jupyter Notebook