Amir Kermany
Sr. Industry Solutions Director, Field Engineering at Databricks
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAmir Kermany is a technical leader with over 20 years of experience at the intersection of life sciences and data engineering, currently serving as Sr. Industry Solutions Director, Field Engineering at Databricks. He combines deep domain expertise in advanced analytics for -omics data with hands-on knowledge of modern data and AI stacks, driving industry GTM and solution architecture for healthcare and genomics teams. His background spans academia and industry—from postdoctoral research in human genetics to senior data science and staff scientist roles at Shopify and Ancestry—giving him rare fluency in both research-grade workflows and production-scale systems. Based in Ottawa, he’s known for translating complex scientific problems into scalable, enterprise-ready data platforms and go-to-market strategies.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Mathematics, Ph.D. Mathematics at Concordia UniversityPostdoc Human Genetics, Postdoc Human Genetics at University of ChicagoPostdoc Mathematics, Postdoc Mathematics at Université de MontréalM.Sc. Electrical Engineering, M.Sc. Electrical Engineering at University of OttawaB.Sc. Physics, B.Sc. Physics at Sharif University of Technology
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Github Skills (33)
gwas10
genomics10
population-genetics10
delta10
spark9
large-scale9
bioinformatics9
regression9
scale8
machine-learning8
databricks-industry-solutions8
pydata7
dataframe7
pandas6
mlflow6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
databricks-industry-solutions/hls-tcga
Sep 2023 - Feb 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
hls
databricks-industry-solutions/dbignite
May 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:12 reviews, 98 commits, 12 PRs in 9 months
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