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MentorCruise summary
Amal is a Senior ML Software Engineer at Meta, working on Instagram Ads. He has more than 10 years of experience in data and machine learning, a PhD in Statistics, and previous experience as a Data Scientist at eBay. He helps candidates strengthen resumes, prepare for ML and AI interviews, and move into new roles or promotions.
Based on 19 verified mentee reviews
- Reviewers often praise his detailed, actionable feedback on ML system design answers and mock interviews.
- Mentees value his structured plans for organizing interview preparation around their target roles and upcoming rounds.
- Several reviewers praise his clear frameworks and practical feedback for behavioral interviews and technical communication.
About
Trying to break into Big Tech, transition into AI Engineering, or move to the next level in your career?
Since 2020, I’ve helped 100+ mentees prepare for interviews and accelerate their careers in Machine Learning Engineering and AI Engineering. About 85% received offers within six months of mentorship.
My mentoring is practical, structured, and personalized. We define your target role and level, identify the gaps holding you back, and build a focused plan around the skills and interview signals that matter most.
Whether you are targeting hyperscalers such as Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, and NVIDIA, frontier AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic, a startup, or an internal promotion, I can help you deepen your technical skills, communicate your impact, and position yourself for your next opportunity.
I help mentees prepare for ML and AI roles involving LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector search, reranking, agentic AI, tool calling, planning, memory, evaluation, guardrails, serving, and monitoring.
Mentoring and mock interviews:
1. ML, LLM, and Agentic AI System Design
Includes a free copy of my ML system design book. We cover problem framing, metrics, retrieval and ranking, RAG, vector databases, tool-using agents, memory, evaluation, latency and cost trade-offs, safety, serving, monitoring, and production design.
2. Coding Interviews
Pattern-first preparation focused on problem solving, edge cases, complexity, and confident communication.
3. Behavioral Interviews and Career Growth
Build a strong story bank, sharpen CARL responses, quantify impact, and communicate leadership, ownership, judgment, influence, and technical vision. I also help you demonstrate the scope and impact expected for promotions and senior roles.
4. Data Science and A/B Testing
Practice experiment design, power, bias, metric selection, logging issues, interpretation traps, and common interview traps.
5. Product Case Studies
Build metric trees, diagnose product problems, prioritize hypotheses, connect ML improvements to business outcomes, and deliver clear recommendations.
6. Statistical Modeling and ML Theory
Review assumptions, uncertainty, calibration, causal inference, ranking metrics, and model selection.
I’m a Machine Learning Engineer at Meta, building large-scale ML and AI systems for ads ranking, retrieval, personalization, and agentic AI. My work spans experimentation, distributed training and inference, low-latency serving, monitoring, and tool-using AI systems.
Previously, I was a Data Scientist at eBay, where I developed learning-to-rank systems for search. I also hold a PhD in Statistics.
You need a clear target, honest feedback, deliberate practice, and guidance tailored to the role and level you want.
Message me with your target role and biggest challenge, and let’s map the shortest credible path to your next ML or AI Engineering role or promotion.
What mentees say
5 out of 5 stars
Amal has been a great mentor, he worked with me to get my resume to a much stronger version then what we started with. Not only that, he guided me well on the prep part too. Thanks a lot Amal for our sessions, they were super useful.
Ayush
Lite Plan • 3 months
5 out of 5 stars
Amal has been incredibly helpful throughout my interview preparation. He took the time to understand where I needed help and worked with me to create a clear, practical plan to reach my goals. What I really appreciate is how approachable and responsive he is. He is always quick to respond to questions, and he often goes beyond the scheduled time to make sure I fully understand the topic or get the help I need. Amal is also very good at identifying the areas that are holding me back and then helping me break them down into manageable steps. His guidance has made my preparation much more focused and structured. I’m really grateful for his support and would highly recommend Amal to anyone looking for a thoughtful, supportive, and committed career mentor.
Aghil
Standard Plan • 1 month
5 out of 5 stars
I highly recommend working with Amal if you want to elevate your ML System Design and technical communication skills. He provides an exceptional level of detail in his mock interviews, assessing not just your technical knowledge, but also your delivery, pacing, and interviewer interaction. Amal taught me how to properly structure my high-level designs, budget my time efficiently across clarifications, and deliver on various expectations. His mentorship bridges the gap between having good ideas and executing them perfectly under pressure. He is an asset to any ML engineer aiming for top-tier roles.
Varun
Standard Plan • 3 months
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What happens when you start
You tell Amal your goals. They see exactly what you want to work on before session one.
You meet within days. Amal reviews your application and books your first session, usually within a day or two.
You leave with a plan. Concrete next steps and a weekly rhythm from your very first week.
