I’m a multidisciplinary ML leader who’s equal parts Data Scientist and ML Engineer. I like owning the full arc from problem framing and metrics to production rollout and iteration.
Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
• Lead ML and Product Data Science organizations delivering production AI across LLMs, RAG, ranking/scoring, personalization, growth, monetization, and revenue analytics.
• Define product data strategy for large, ambiguous problem spaces; translate company OKRs into multi-quarter analytics, experimentation, and ML roadmaps aligned to business impact.
• Drive product analytics: north-star metric definition, KPI trees, funnel optimization, retention modeling, cohort analysis, LTV modeling, and growth acceleration across the user lifecycle.
• Own experimentation at scale: A/B testing platforms, hypothesis design, power analysis, guardrail metrics, incrementality measurement, causal inference, and launch decision frameworks.
• Build LLM-powered products end-to-end: RAG pipelines, vector search, embeddings, prompt engineering, tool use, guardrails, evaluation (LLM-as-judge), and cost/latency/quality optimization.
• Ship model improvements via fine-tuning, distillation, prompt tuning, domain adaptation, feature engineering, and model performance optimization.
• Establish scalable data foundations: instrumentation strategy, event taxonomy, logging standards, data contracts, metric governance, and SQL-first data warehousing (batch + real-time).
• Architect production-grade ML systems: CI/CD, containers, cloud deployment, monitoring/observability, model versioning, drift detection, rollback strategies, and reliability engineering.
• Lead cross-functional strategy with Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and GTM; translate business goals into measurable experimentation and ML execution plans.
• Influence executive decision-making through opportunity sizing, forecasting, scenario modeling, capacity planning, and business case development.
• Operate hands-on across Python, SQL, distributed systems, APIs, experimentation frameworks, and production services; bridge research, engineering, and product delivery.
2019 — 2024
2019 — 2024
• Led 3 data science teams (Load and Haul, Drill and Blast, Safety), working cross functionally with the business, product, and executives to deliver impactful solutions to the mining industry.
• Delivered more than $450 million in value to the mining business by optimizing roads, trucks, and operations.
• Led the development and deployment of a proprietary Generative AI-based application for the mining industry, significantly enhancing pit supervisors' ability to identify, prioritize, and address operational issues
• Strategic advisor to senior leaders on commercialization strategy, external partnerships, customer success, and long-term roadmaps.
• Hired, mentored and led a team of data scientists and data engineers to successfully develop over 10 digital products that increase operational efficiency and reduce costs
• Led data driven innovation at Teck by setting objectives, outlining roadmaps, and guiding the team to deliver several research initiatives.
• Founder of the "Safety Analytics" team with a focus on safeguarding worker well-being and ensuring the sustainability of the operations
• Designed end-to-end machine learning systems, collaborating closely with stakeholders to develop models that bolster business operations.
2019 — 2024
Instructed high-performing students from software development backgrounds in the following specialized programs:
• Generative AI for Business with Microsoft Azure Open AI
• Generative AI for NLP (Transformers and Large Language Models, Self-Attention mechanism, Embeddings, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Natural Language Querying, Langchain)
• Data Science on Cloud (Azure and AWS)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology Applied Data Science Program
2021 — 2023
2021 — 2023
Medium's top writer in Artificial Intelligence since 2022
Publishing novel ideas in Data Science with more than 1k views per day
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
• Served major global OEM clients across North America, Europe, and Asia, leading the development of technology assets for automotive applications across data analytics, automation, and intelligent systems.
• Built Python-based analytics and machine learning prototypes to analyze vehicle, sensor, and operational data, supporting use cases such as performance monitoring, anomaly detection, predictive modeling, and decision support.
• Developed SQL-driven data workflows to extract, clean, transform, and analyze structured datasets from engineering, testing, and operational systems.
• Created internal tools and lightweight web applications to help engineering and business stakeholders explore data, review model outputs, and operationalize analytical insights.
• Partnered with cross-functional teams across software, controls, systems engineering, and client-facing delivery to translate automotive business problems into scalable technical solutions.
• Designed reusable technology assets, including data processing scripts, analytical models, dashboards, and proof-of-concept systems that accelerated delivery across multiple client engagements.
• Applied statistical analysis, machine learning, and engineering domain knowledge to identify patterns, diagnose system behavior, and recommend improvements for automotive applications.
• Supported end-to-end delivery from requirements gathering and technical design through prototyping, validation, stakeholder demos, and client handoff.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Applied Data Science Program
Simon Fraser University
Master of Science (MSc)
Sharif University of Technology