Team
The team.
Analytica's engagements are led and delivered by the three senior people on this page. When a project requires another specialty, a named specialist joins for that part of the work.
Founder
Dr. Aous Abdo
Aous is a physicist. He spent a decade in federally funded research — the Milagro observatory at Los Alamos, then a National Academy of Sciences fellowship on NASA’s Fermi mission, held across NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory — extracting faint signals from noisy instrument data and defending the results under expert review. He now applies the same methods to client work.
- Statistical inference on noisy, incomplete and contested data
- Explainable models for regulated and public-sector decisions
- Federal delivery — scoping, clearance, and what may be said about it afterwards
Chief Technical Officer
Dr. Amine Chouicha
Dr. Chouicha has built production data infrastructure for twenty-five years, seventeen of them in financial services. He builds entitlement frameworks that decide who may read what, streaming platforms moving data between teams that never agreed on a schema, and search infrastructure serving an entire company rather than one product.
- Real-time and streaming data architecture, at enterprise scale
- Data governance and entitlement — who may see which rows, enforced in the platform
- Hybrid and multi-cloud platform design, and the migration path onto it
- Engineering leadership across distributed teams and time zones
Principal AI Engineer
Jacob Weiss
Jacob builds the infrastructure other people’s AI runs on. He is a core engineer on two open-source frameworks used well beyond this firm — pixeltable, which handles multimodal data for AI workloads, and agno, for multi-agent systems with memory and reasoning.
Degrees in financial engineering and in analytics.
- Agentic systems — orchestration, tool use, and memory that survives a session
- Multimodal data infrastructure for AI workloads
- Retrieval and embedding pipelines, from prototype to something on call
- Cloud deployment for AI services, chiefly on AWS
How we staff
Specialists.
When a project needs a specialty none of the three of us has, we bring in a named specialist for that portion of the engagement. The applications we publish are listed under Products.
Work with this team
Tell us what you're working on, and we'll take it from there.