Ali Sharpasand
Co-Founder at Flying Acorn
Espoo, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Sharpasand is a data scientist and founder with 13 years of experience building high-performance game backends, experimentation platforms, and scalable event-driven APIs. As Co-Founder of Flying Acorn he designed a game service supporting 60K DAU and an in-house Bayesian A/B testing platform, and previously led product and growth at multiple studios where he doubled revenue and launched games with strong retention metrics. He combines hands-on engineering—from real-time trading pipelines and in-app purchase platforms to DSPy optimizers—with leadership in team building, Holacracy-driven transparency, and mentorship. Based in Espoo, Finland, Ali blends technical depth in Bayesian estimation and LLM optimization with a creative focus on culture, openness, and thoughtful internet architecture. Notably, he improved cold-email generation success to 97.5% by designing and A/B-testing novel optimizers, reflecting his knack for measurable impact through careful experimentation.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Summer School, Machine Learning, Summer School, Machine Learning at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering - Software, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering - Software at Qazvin Islamic Azad UniversityHigh School Diploma, Mathematics, High School Diploma, Mathematics at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad)
English, Persian, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
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lookup9
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alisharpasand/m.a.sharpasand.com
Feb 2013 - Sep 2016
Contributions:39 commits, 8 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 7 months
mrlspl/bare-library
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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