Raaid Ahmad is Head of Data Science & Engineering, Blockchain at Facebook. Filling my life with science, art, friends & family, games, nature and love. Raaid is a data science and business analytics leader with 10+ years as an analyst or manager and 4+ years as an exec in consumer internet, investing, and gaming. He also advises and invest in startups that demonstrate commitment to data-informed decision-making. Raaid's passion is scaling teams of analysts, data scientists, and engineers. He has been a member of and led teams responsible for the entire data lifecycle: collection, storage architecture, BI tools, insights, algorithm generation, and data-driven business planning. His teams have built it in-house, utilized third parties, and implemented hybrid solutions. Rather than specific industry interests, he enjoys algorithms, analysis, systemization, and team-building functions. He is passionate about FinTech, education (primarily teaching), asset management, and strategic games (video games, board games, and economic theory) however. Prior to Weebly, Raaid served as the Director of Analytics and Data Sciences at Kiwi, Inc. a Sequoia-backed mobile gaming startup, where he oversaw the central analytics team, the game economy team, and user acquisition products team. Earlier in his career he directed execution of the high-risk, quantitative trading strategies for Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund with over $120B of assets under management. He has additional work experience in world-class competitive poker, economic research, teaching and personal finance publishing. Raaid's areas of specialty are predictive modeling, behavioral targeting, machine learning, cross-functional team management, financial risk management, portfolio construction, trading strategies, poker, fantasy sports, statistical modeling, experimental design, and personal financial planning.