About

A detailed professional biography of Shekib Ahmed, outlining his work at the intersection of tea, technology, and entrepreneurship, including his experience, education, publications, and skills.

Shekib Ahmed

Director @ Bagasa Plantations (P) Ltd. · Founder, Evolving Innovations LLP · AI Engineer
Dibrugarh, Assam, India

I work at the intersection of tea, technology, and entrepreneurship—modernizing the tea supply chain in Assam and building AI-powered tools for quality, yield, and pricing analytics. I’m the Director of Bagasa Plantations (P) Ltd. and Founder of Evolving Innovations LLP, where I research solvent-free, enzymatic, and AI-assisted extraction of tea bioactives and collaborate with scientists to bring tea-based nutraceutical, cosmeceutical, and beverage products to market.

What I’m focused on

  • Digitizing the tea supply chain: Real-time price & volume analytics, market trend detection, and operational dashboards.
  • R&D in tea extracts: Process innovation and productization of Assam tea phytometabolites.
  • AI/ML in agriculture: Computer vision and ML pipelines for quality assessment and automation.

Experience

Evolving Innovations LLP — Founder (Apr 2024–Present)

  • Researching solvent-free, enzymatic, and AI-assisted extraction techniques for high-quality tea extracts.
  • Product development with food scientists & industry partners (tea-based functional products).
  • Building PyTorch/OpenCV/ML analytics for real-time price & volume trend analysis in the tea market.

Bagasa Plantations (P) Ltd — Director (May 2008–Present; Apr–Jul 2007)

  • Lead initiatives to streamline HR/ERP and digitize core processes.
  • Drive partnerships with startups & systems integrators to improve quality, yield, and productivity.
  • Incubate value-addition projects, community development, and sustainable growth.

Earlier roles at Bagasa Plantations:
Corporate & Union Relations Intern (Mar–Jul 2004) — supported labor-policy negotiations and client relations.
Quality Control Intern (May–Jul 2002) — supervised fermentation process changes to raise quality and margins.

Krypton Systems (P) Ltd — Organic & Biofuel Division (2005–2006)

  • NGO Partnerships (May–Jul 2006): University/industry outreach, MoUs with researchers & financiers, GIS integration for alt-energy projects, and policy research.
  • Emissions Trading Research Intern (May–Jul 2005): Mapped PDD processes with Winrock International & TERI; built research institute contacts (RRL Jorhat, Dibrugarh Univ.).

Reebok International Ltd — Human Rights Dept., Massachusetts, USA (Oct–Dec 2005)

  • Built KPIs and reporting for education/training, monitoring, and remediation programs.
  • Led end-to-end data collection, cleaning, analysis, and executive reporting.

Education

  • Bentley University (Waltham, MA) — B.S. in Managerial Economics; Minor in International Studies (Jan 2008)
    Magna Cum Laude; President’s List; Honors Program; Beta Gamma Sigma & Omicron Delta Epsilon.
  • Eton College (London, UK) — International Exchange Scholarship Program (Summer 2003)
  • Brazil Short-Term Program — São Paulo & Rio de Janeiro (Jan 2006); Incubadora Afro-Brasileira seminar
  • Ghana Short-Term Program — Accra (Aug 2006); service learning with HUGS International TLC (UK ops)

Publication

  • Seasonal dynamics of phytometabolites content in Assam tea (Camellia sinensis var. assamica) by LC-MS/MS: Implications for quality.
    Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 134 (2024): 106546.
    Authors: S.S. Pulimamidi, D.D. Naik, M. Yadav, K.G. Suryawanshi, S.S. Marathe, S.B. Jorvekar, S. Ponneganti, S. Ahmed, A. Hazarika, R.M. Borkar.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jfca.2024.106546

Skills (selected)

AI/ML & Data: PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, scikit-learn, R, SQL, NumPy, Matplotlib
Data Analytics & BI: Power BI, Tableau
Software & Cloud: JavaScript, Flask, Django, AWS (architecture), Replit, Cursor
Delivery & Workflow: JIRA, Trello

Licenses & Certifications

  • PyTorch for Deep Learning Bootcamp — Udemy

  • Machine Learning/AI Engineer (Career Path) — Codecademy

  • Learn Data Structures and Algorithms with Python — Codecademy

  • Learn Python 3 — Codecademy

  • Build Deep Learning Models with TensorFlow (Skill Path) — Codecademy

  • AWS Cloud Technical Essentials — Coursera

  • Architecting Solutions on AWS — Coursera

  • Convolutional Neural Networks — DeepLearning.AI / Coursera

  • Deep Learning Specialization — DeepLearning.AI / Coursera

  • Migrating to the AWS Cloud — AWS / Coursera

  • Sequence Models — DeepLearning.AI / Coursera

  • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization — DeepLearning.AI / Coursera

  • Structuring Machine Learning Projects — DeepLearning.AI / Coursera

  • Data Analysis with R Programming — Google / Coursera

  • Google Data Analytics Certificate — Google / Coursera

  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning — DeepLearning.AI / Coursera

Activities & Leadership

Resident Assistant; Spiritual Life Advisor; Director, Bentley Entrepreneurship Society; Bentley Model United Nations; Moroccan delegation, Model Arab League (Northeastern Univ., 2004); Service Learning (Fitzgerald High School, IT classes); Student Mentor, Project Eye-to-Eye.