Summary
Ali Esmaili is a senior research and technology leader with 11+ years driving large-scale supply chain, logistics, and optimization programs at Amazon and a long track record of industrial R&D at Air Products. He leads cross-functional teams of managers, engineers and scientists to turn operational and business data into production-grade optimization and ML systems that have saved hundreds of millions and support billions in retail revenue. His background spans control, system identification, computer vision, stochastic and robust optimization, and energy trading models, and he holds multiple patents bridging process monitoring, logistics, and revenue management. Known for questioning business assumptions to uncover new revenue streams, he combines rigorous academic training (PhD in Chemical Engineering) with hands-on deployment of data-driven decision systems. Based in Seattle, he is equally comfortable inventing novel algorithms and shepherding them into global production at scale.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering at McMaster University
B.A.Sc., Chemical Engineering, B.A.Sc., Chemical Engineering at University of Waterloo