Summary
Ali Marefat is a Senior Software Developer with a PhD in Scientific Computing and seven years of experience applying engineering, applied math, and ML to real-world problems. He has built and deployed fraud detection and anomaly models at Nasdaq, implemented image instance segmentation and VAE-based anomaly detection for banking workflows, and productionized models on AWS SageMaker. Earlier roles span scientific software development for turbomachinery—where he authored domain-specific design and performance tools in Fortran, C#, and C++—to engineering leadership in compressor design, giving him rare cross-domain fluency between mechanical systems and machine learning. Comfortable with object-oriented design and multiple languages, he moves quickly from research prototypes to production pipelines and S3-integrated deployments. Colleagues rely on him for independent research-driven solutions that also integrate cleanly into team workflows and regulated environments. Based in St. John's, NL, he blends deep computational methods with practical engineering instincts to tackle high-stakes industrial and financial problems.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Master's Degree, Mechanical Engineering at Tehran Azad University, Science And Research Branch
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering at Tehran Azad University,Science And Research Branch
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Scientific Computing, 4/4, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Scientific Computing, 4/4 at Memorial University of Newfoundland
English, German, Azerbaijani, Persian