Ali Parandeh is a founder and engineering leader with 7 years’ experience building AI-driven products for rail, infrastructure and manufacturing, now scaling Build Your AI as CEO to deliver tooling and automation workflows for engineering organisations. Former Head of Engineering at Applied Data Science Partners and multiple technical leadership roles at CrossTech and Atkins, he has shipped award-winning geospatial and computer vision solutions that improved rail operational performance. An O’Reilly author of Building GenAI Services with FastAPI (2025) and a Chartered Software Engineer, he blends hands-on architecture across data, models and deployment with product and commercial strategy. He also runs a sizable learning community (Beginners Machine Learning) and has taught cloud and CV courses that helped hundreds transition into data careers, reflecting a strong emphasis on developer enablement. Notably, he moves rapidly from research and proof-of-concept to production-grade systems, combining systems engineering roots with modern ML and cloud practices.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
AI Programming with Python Nanodegree Artificial Intelligence, AI Programming with Python Nanodegree Artificial Intelligence at Udacity
Master of Engineering (MEng) Mechanical Engineering With a Foundation Year, Master of Engineering (MEng) Mechanical Engineering With a Foundation Year at The University of Sheffield
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