Hamzah Chaudhary, Product Manager in London, United Kingdom
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Hamzah Chaudhary

Verified Expert  in Product Management

Product Manager

Location
London, United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since
April 16, 2020

Hamzah was hired as the second engineer at a seed-funded fintech company—helping them scale to $40+ million funding in series B, 70 employees, and built out multiple functions including product, marketing, and customer success. He's led the design and development of multiple B2B SaaS products that were responsible for 90% of multi-millions worth of ARR. Hamzah specializes in incorporating data science and machine-learning models into consumer-facing products and using explainability by design.

Project Highlights

Direct-to-customer Commercial Insurance Platform
Led the design and development of the UK's first direct-to-customer question-free commercial insurance platform (a reduction from 32 to 4 questions for a full commercial combined policy).
Medical Data Annotation Platform
Designed and launched a medical data annotation platform, growing organic users to over 300 actives in under four weeks and reducing the cost of labelling from $2 to $0.60 by implementing machine-learning models to optimize tasks.

Expertise

Work Experience

Co-founder

2019 - PRESENT
Scope Technologies
  • Built the world's first platform that allows doctors to complete medical data labeling tasks remotely, allowing them to earn income and contribute to medical research.
  • Reduced the cost of a data label from $2.00 to $0.60 by implementing a machine-learning model to suggest labels and monitor labeling quality. This also reduced number of judgments required per image from 7 to 3.
  • Organically grew the doctors' user base from 3 to over 300 active medical professionals from across the world (20% MoM growth), acquiring over 5,000 labels.

Director of Product Management

2016 - 2019
Cytora
  • Led the technical proof of concepts for the first three major insurance customers—resulting in all three being closed.
  • Spearheaded the design and development of the UK's first direct-to-consumer question-less commercial insurance platform (a reduction from 32 to 4 questions for a full commercial combined policy).
  • Led the development of internal data pipeline managing crowd-worker for machine-learning training dataset creation—creating custom quality control mechanisms to increase data quality and reduce cost (increased quality by 3x, reducing cost by 2x).
  • Setup and scaled a sales-and-customer success function in the UK and Australia, responsible for product delivery and ongoing success for all customers across both regions, worth over $5 million in ARR.
  • Designed and built a property-risk-scoring product from scratch, incorporating external datasets and advanced machine-learning techniques. The product was scaled across the UK and Australia, incorporating over 70 datasets.

Product Manager | Software Engineer

2015 - 2016
SumoChickn Gaming
  • Built one of the first 50 apps accepted in the iOS App Store using React Native in direct collaboration with the Facebook development team.
  • Created a challenge-based game where users challenged their groups to complete challenges and post evidence in return for in-game points.
  • Received over 1,000 downloads of the app during the launch weekend, placing in the top ten gaming apps for the weekend.

Co-founder

2014 - 2015
Buzz 'n' Bake
  • Created a route-based delivery system that reduced the number of delivery drivers by 3x compared to competitors (and reduced average wait time from ~45 minutes to 15 minutes).
  • Bootstrapped company to profitable monthly revenue in the first three months.
  • Built and scaled a live delivery app across both iOS and Android in under six weeks to be accepted in both App Stores.

Direct-to-customer Commercial Insurance Platform

Led the design and development of the UK's first direct-to-customer question-free commercial insurance platform (a reduction from 32 to 4 questions for a full commercial combined policy).

Commercial insurance policies are typically bought via brokers or over the phone. I led the design and build of the world's first online commercial insurance product, which reduced the number of questions needed to be asked to return a quote from an average of 32 down to 4.

I achieved this by implementing machine-learning models built on-top of external datasets. I designed a core data platform that managed the multiple external data calls needed to run the machine-learning model. Using basic information (address + company name), the model would then return a price to the user on the front end via a RESTful API, in under two seconds.
Building and launching this product suite involved managing six different streams of work, implementing rigorous agile and kanban methodologies to ensure all product teams were aware of dependencies and held accountable.
The platform was designed, built and launched, including passing FCA regulation, in under 12 weeks.

Medical Data Annotation Platform

Designed and launched a medical data annotation platform, growing organic users to over 300 actives in under four weeks and reducing the cost of labelling from $2 to $0.60 by implementing machine-learning models to optimize tasks.

Scope is a data-labeling platform to help companies build large training sets of medical image data. Doctors performed the labeling and were paid per task. Medical images require specific interfaces and specialized tools that we built internally. Companies submit their data via API and labeled data was returned to them via an asynchronous endpoint.
I led the user research, design, and build of the platform, including the personal onboarding of our first 50 doctors and securing our first paying customer of the service. The platform was built as secure by design, ensuring that data never left a company's server environment and was kept secure at all times.
I designed a UX using a machine-learning model that offered up the best-suggested label to users, speeding up the task by almost 3x and improving accuracy while also reducing cost. I also added gamification to the platform to allow doctors to understand how well they performed against other medical professionals. This drove increased usage and also serves as an educational tool for doctors.
2010 - 2014

Double Bachelor's Degree in European and Middle Eastern Languages and Linguistics

Univeristy College London - London, United Kingdom

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