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Amina Farah

Former Head of AI/ML · Vellum Intelligence

Cambridge, MA, US

Brings applied ML and LLM products from research to reliable production, having shipped models used by millions daily.

16+ years experienceEnglish, Arabic

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16yrs

Operating leadership

Senior roles

Areas of expertise

5.0★

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What Amina is known for

Amina Farah is an AI and machine learning leader with 16 years spanning research and applied production systems. As Head of AI/ML at Vellum Intelligence she built and led a 25-person team that shipped fraud-detection and LLM-powered support products serving over 12 million users daily, cutting fraud losses by 38%. Before that she led the NLP group at Cardinal Text, where her team's document-understanding models became the company's flagship enterprise product. Amina advises companies on AI strategy, what to build versus buy in the LLM era, and how to ship ML responsibly and reliably.

Expertise & sectors

Core expertise

AI/ML strategy LLM products MLOps NLP Responsible AI

Sectors

Fintech Enterprise AI

Experience

Head of AI/ML · Vellum Intelligence

2018 — 2024

Lead ML Scientist · Cardinal Text

2012 — 2018

Ways to work together

15-min intro

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AI Strategy Workshop

$8,500 · 240 min

A half-day workshop to define your AI roadmap, prioritize use cases, and decide build-vs-buy across the LLM stack.

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LLM Architecture Review

$3,500

Technical review of a planned or in-flight LLM application covering evals, guardrails, and reliability.

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What people say about Amina

“Amina cut through six months of internal debate in one workshop. We finally have an AI roadmap the whole team believes in.”

GTGreg Tanaka · VP Product, Linden Financial

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