Ahmed El-Shimi

Ahmed El-Shimi is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Speechace, a Seattle AI company dedicated to the advancement of spoken language assessment and feedback through Machine Learning. Ahmed holds a BSc. in Computer Engineering from Boston University and has worked in Machine Learning, Cloud and Infrastructure R&D for 20 years. Prior to Speechace, Ahmed spent 15 years at Microsoft in leadership roles at Product groups and Microsoft Research. His tenure spanned positions in Redmond (WA), Dublin (Ireland), Cairo (Egypt), and Mountain View (CA). Ahmed has spoken at dozens of academic and corporate conferences such as LinuxCon, SNIA Storage and Networking World, Huawei STW, and Microsoft Build. His work has been published at prestigious publications such as USENIX ATC and he holds multiple worldwide patents all of which in technologies that have been productized with commercial success.