Work

Selected leadership arc

Roles where I owned outcomes—not just models—across AI strategy, teams, platforms, and product delivery.

2024 — Present
Data Science Manager
Snapp!

Leading data science at consumer scale. Shaping AI strategy around agentic and LLM systems that move from exploration into organizational impact—hiring, mentoring, and shipping against real product constraints.

2022 — 2024
Scaleup factory
FANAP

Scale-up and platform-oriented work inside a large technology group spanning digital financial services, infrastructure, and industrial technology.

2022
Lead Data Scientist
Shaparak

Developed fraud detection algorithms on banking transactions— high-stakes machine learning where precision, latency, and trust all matter.

2017 — 2021
VP of Engineering
Sensifai

Led design and delivery of AI services including video recommender, fingerprinting, violence detection, captioning, and tagging—on-prem and as SaaS on AWS Marketplace and SageMaker. Built a distributed hybrid architecture running multiple online AI services across Jetson edge devices and GPU servers. Coached engineers and aligned skills with company trajectory.

2016 — 2017
Machine Learning Engineer
Sensifai

Deep learning for video tagging and summarization—bridging research ideas into productized vision systems.

2013 — 2015
Computer Vision Team Lead
Information Technology Organization of Iran (ITC)

Real-time analysis of network traffic for content moderation of images and video at national infrastructure scale.

2011 — 2013
Computer Vision Engineer
SNT R&D center

High-speed camera control (600 fps), video analysis, and acquisition from sensor arrays at 1M samples/s—integration and analysis under hard timing constraints.

Selected publications

Research that shaped a decade of applied computer vision and deep learning.