Meisam Ghafarlangroudi-AI Product Engineering Lead | Hands-On Delivery, Clients & Platforms
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Senior AI Engineer / Data Scientist
Geeks Ltd (WordUp)
Geeks Ltd is a UK-based technology company; WordUp is its AI-driven language-learning product focused on personalized vocabulary learning and intelligent educational experiences.
- Coordinate AI product delivery across Product, Engineering, Data, Operations, and leadership, translating user needs into scoped initiatives, sequencing work, surfacing blockers, facilitating hand-offs, and communicating progress.
- Own search, recommendation, retrieval, and content-enrichment features end to end, from requirements and architecture through Python/FastAPI implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and rapid iteration.
- Developed low-latency retrieval, ranking, and personalization services using AWS, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, embeddings, and reusable APIs, achieving <1s latency, 22% higher engagement, and 12% higher premium conversion.
- Use AI coding assistants for codebase analysis, scaffolding, refactoring, tests, debugging, and documentation while reviewing every output for correctness, architectural fit, security, maintainability, and user value.
- Represent technical work in planning and stakeholder discussions, gather requirements first-hand, challenge priorities constructively, explain delivery trade-offs, and help teammates make outcome-focused decisions.
Data Scientist
Hosh and Dansh
Ibiar.com is an online grocery platform developed by Smart and Science.
- Created machine learning models to predict inventory needs, reducing holding costs by 15%
- Built models to predict customer churn, enabling proactive retention efforts that decreased churn rate by 12%
- Implemented algorithms that adjusted pricing based on demand forecasting, increasing revenue by 10%
Data Scientist
Mellat Bank
Mellat Bank boasts a staggering customer base of over 50 million individuals in Iran. Renowned for its extensive range of offerings, the bank provides a comprehensive suite of services exceeding 100, including innovative options like Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) solutions.
- Developed a news trading algorithm using Fin-BERT and GPT3 and sentiment analysis to predict short-term price movements in Forex and Crypto markets, achieving a 20% improvement in trading signal accuracy
- Built an ensemble model combining XGBoost with a deep auto encoder to detect anomalies in credit card transactions in real time, reduced false positives by 25% and improved fraud recall by 15%
- Implemented a customer churn prediction model, reducing churn by 15% and enhancing customer retention strategies
- Built recommendation engines to suggest banking products to customers, enhancing cross-selling opportunities by 22%
- Developed a sentiment analysis model using BERT to analyze Instagram comments, achieving over 85% accuracy and providing actionable insights for customer engagement strategies
- Engineered a forecasting model using Deep AR to predict credit usage with an R-square value exceeding 80%, optimizing financial planning
- designed and implemented a credit risk scoring system that improved early identification of high-risk applicants and reduced default rates by 12%
Industry Experience
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Experienced in Banking and Finance, Education, Information Technology, Food and Beverage, and Retail.
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Experienced in Business Intelligence, Finance, Investments and M&A, Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.
Summary
Hands-on AI Product Engineering Lead with 7+ years of experience coordinating cross-functional delivery and owning AI-powered features from client requirements through production operation. Strong in product planning, technical facilitation, Python, APIs, search, recommendation, data ingestion, Docker, testing, and observability, with active Go development proficiency. Experienced aligning Product, Design, Engineering, leadership, and business stakeholders, breaking initiatives into deliverable increments, surfacing blockers, reviewing AI-generated code, and keeping quality and user outcomes central without relying on formal authority.
Skills
Python
R Programming
Scala
Snowflake
Ms Sql Server
Nosql
Milvus
Mongodb
Bigquery
Elasticsearch
Postgre
Aws (S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, Kinesis)
Google Cloud Platform (Gcp)
Azure
Airflow
Dbt
Ssis
Ssas
Apis Services
Docker
Terraform
Kubernetes
Ci/Cd
Fastapi
Git
Github
Slack
Jira
Confluence
Kubeflow
Agile Development
Ms Power Bi
Google Looker
Tableau
Metabase
Google Analytics
Data Studio
Apache Spark
Ray
Hadoop
Regression Models
Classification
Time Series Analysis
Deep Learning (Tensorflow, Pytorch)
Llm
Faiss
Scann
Huggingface
Rag
Bert
Sentiment Analysis
Nlp
Vector Search
Web Scraping
Mmm
Llama
Lora
Llama Index
Langchain
Transformers
Pod Coordination & Delivery Leadership: Initiative Breakdown, Sequencing And Prioritization, Blocker Removal, Hand-Offs, Delivery Updates, Lightweight Project Management, Facilitation, Shared Accountability
Client, Product & Stakeholder Leadership: First-Hand Requirements Discovery, Client Meetings, Product Planning, Scoping, Trade-Off Communication, Expectation Management, Leadership Reporting, Calm Issue Handling
Hands-On Product Engineering: Feature Ownership From Specification To Operation, Python, Fastapi, Rest Apis, Asynchronous Services, Modular Design, Go Fundamentals And Active Development, Production Debugging
Ai-Assisted Development & Review: Claude Code-Style Agentic Development, Scoped Task Prompts, Codebase Navigation, Implementation And Test Scaffolding, Generated-Code Review, Architecture Checks, Debugging, Documentation
Search, Recommendation & Enrichment: Opensearch, Embeddings, Retrieval And Ranking, Personalization, Semantic Search, Content Enrichment, Relevance Evaluation, Feedback Loops, Latency And Quality Kpis
Data, Databases & Integrations: Postgresql/Sql And Nosql, Dynamodb, Redis Familiarity, Ingestion Pipelines, Partner/Supplier Apis, Schema Validation, Authentication Awareness, Retries, Background-Job Concepts
Quality, Reliability & Operations: Self-Owned Testing And Production Quality, Unit/Integration/Regression Tests, Docker Compose Concepts, Ci/Cd, Git, Logs, Metrics, Traces, Alerting, On-Call Readiness
Architecture & Communication: Feature And System Thinking, Build-Vs-Buy Decisions, Full-Stack Awareness, Security And Scalability Trade-Offs, Technical Documentation, Mentoring
Languages
Education
IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
Master of Data Science · Data Science · Berlin, Germany
Science and Culture University, Iran
Master of Financial Engineering and Risk Management · Financial Engineering and Risk Management · Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Azad University, Iran
Bachelor of Industrial Engineering · Industrial Engineering · Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
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