Ali Hejazizo
Founding AI Lead at Vendoroo
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAli Hejazizo is a founding AI lead and serial founder with nine years of experience turning NLP and ML research into production LLM systems and data-driven products. Currently leading AI at Vendoroo while building ApplyLink—an AI platform and community that already supports 7,000+ students and will launch its full personalized university-matching and document-generation suite in 2025—he blends hands-on engineering with product vision. Prior roles at Affinity.co and AltaML include productionizing large-scale data pipelines, deduplication and recommendation systems, and end-to-end LLM solutions for scraping, entity extraction, and domain chatbots. He holds dual M.Sc. degrees from the University of Alberta and has a track record of growing learning platforms (Pytopia) and mentorship programs that bridge education and applied AI. Notably, he moves fluidly between research and deployment—designing MRNA analysis models and web-scale extraction systems—making him equally at home in academic NLP work and startup execution.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at University of AlbertaAmirkabir University of Technology
English, Persian
Stackoverflow
198reputation
10kreached
12answers
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Github Skills (81)
python10
bots10
botkit10
dialogue-systems10
pyviz10
conversational-bots10
assistants10
linux10
voice10
conversational-ai10
dialogflow10
nlp10
chatbot10
conversation10
data-science10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pytopia/stackoverflow-telegram-bot
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:92 commits, 108 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
pytopia/Python-2022
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Pytopia Python Programming Course
Contributions:45 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
python
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