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Vancouver, BC, CA

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Developed an automated system for large-scale scraping of industry-related news from search engines.
• Maintained and expanded the news processing funnel, enhancing fault tolerance and reducing human involvement in the news process and selection.
• Fine-tuned and prompt-engineered large language models (LLMs) for tasks including news summarization, market reports, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) based customer support systems.
• Developed APIs for various ML-intensive tasks,… Show more
• Developed APIs for various ML-intensive tasks, such as listing image understanding, lead responseautomation, and agent similarity detection.
• Implemented a hierarchical location database for North America, detailing from country to neighborhood levels. Show less

Tehran, Iran

• Evaluated various data sources (e.g., installed apps, search histories, page views) for their potential usein recommendations.
• Applied clustering methods at scale to segment apps and users for data insights.
• Implemented, tested, and compared collaborative filtering methods, including neighbor-based routinesand matrix factorization techniques (e.g., SVD variants, weighted ALS, Deep Factorization).
• Developed a hybrid, multi-objective recommender system, increasing the… Show more
• Developed a hybrid, multi-objective recommender system, increasing the overall click-through rate by 47%.
• Collaborated with DevOps and Data Engineers to scale solutions using technologies such as Spark. Show less

Tehran, Iran

• Developed the keyword generation component of the Search Ads system, enhancing Ad campaignrelevance and increasing click-through rates by 32%.
• Created an automated web scraping module to extract pertinent data and related keywords for Ad campaigns.
• Regularly monitored the Search Ads system’s performance, consulting with business intelligencespecialists to boost click-through rates.
• Implemented a custom spell checker to map misspelled queries to existing keywords… Show more
• Implemented a custom spell checker to map misspelled queries to existing keywords, increasing thematch rate by 9%.
• Classified millions of Instagram comments to identify sponsored and offensive messages. Show less