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Faisal Ghaffar is Co-Founder and CTO of Alethica, where he started as founding AI engineer and leads cross-functional teams building AI systems for regulated sectors including fintech, legaltech, crime analytics, and healthcare. He has over 12 years of experience across LLMs, agentic workflows, MLOps, and Web3 analytics, with prior work at IBM modernizing legacy analytics to cloud-native platforms. He has filed 17 patents and secured approximately €1.5M in innovation funding.
Co-founder & CTO at Alethica
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Experience
- AlethicaFounding AI Engineer | CTO (Co‑founder)current2024 — presentLondon and Dublin
- TechstarsFounder in Residence2025London Area, United Kingdom
- ZincEntrepreneur in Residence2024Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- AntlerFounder in Residence2024London Area, United Kingdom
- Allora LabsSenior Machine Learning Engineer – Web3 & Meta‑Models2023 — 2024
- Allora LabsSenior Machine Learning Engineer2022 — 2024
- IBMML Engineering Manager2019 — 2022Dublin Ireland
- IBMTech Lead2014 — 2019Ireland
- IBMSenior Software Developer2012 — 2014Dublin Ireland
- LM Ericsson LtdSoftware Developer2011 — 2012Ireland
- EMCSoftware Developer2010 — 2011Cork Ireland
- EricssonAutomation Engineer (ICT Internship)2010Athlone Ireland
Skills & more
Python (Programming Language)AWS SageMakerJava12Python5RRESTHTML 52JUnit2SQL5UML1CSSAnt1
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JavaScriptJSPPL/SQLWebsphereHadoopApache HadoopHiveQLBigSQLLarge Language Models (LLM)Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO)Predictive ModelingMachine Learning- IBM Blockchain Foundation Consulting — IBM
- First Patent File — IBM
- Plateau — IBM
- Call for Code 2018 - IBM Contributor — IBM
- Invention Development Team - Bronze Level — IBM
- Patent Issuance — IBM
- IBM Agile Explorer — IBM
- IBM Recognized Speaker/ Presenter — IBM
- IBM Intellectual Capital/ Intellectual Property Creator — IBM
- IBM Mentor — IBM
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Faisal Ghaffar?
- Faisal Ghaffar is Co-Founder and CTO of Alethica, where he started as founding AI engineer and leads cross-functional teams building AI systems for regulated sectors including fintech, legaltech, crime analytics, and healthcare. He has over 12 years of experience across LLMs, agentic workflows, MLOps, and Web3 analytics, with prior work at IBM modernizing legacy analytics to cloud-native platforms. He has filed 17 patents and secured approximately €1.5M in innovation funding.
- Where does Faisal Ghaffar work?
- Faisal Ghaffar is Co-founder & CTO of Alethica.
- What companies did Faisal Ghaffar found?
- Faisal Ghaffar founded Alethica.
- Where did Faisal Ghaffar go to school?
- Faisal Ghaffar studied at University College Dublin (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science); Technological University Dublin (MSc, Data Analytics); Technological University Dublin (B.Eng Computer and Communications Engineering).
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