Amir Shahbandegan
AI Engineering Manager at PwC
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAmir Shahbandegan is an AI Engineering Manager with a decade of experience delivering production-grade ML and GenAI systems across public sector and financial services. He built the Canada Revenue Agency’s first production RAG chatbot and later led a 15+ engineer distributed team to productionize a multi-agent AI platform for a Tier-1 bank on AWS, marrying technical architecture with stakeholder-driven productization. Deeply versed in transformer-based NLP, vector databases, and MLOps, he routinely ships secure, containerized deployments on Azure and OpenShift/Kubernetes. His career spans research—MSc with publications at ACL-level venues—and startup success as a CTO who scaled a consumer platform to 100k users and $1M+ annual revenue. Known for translating cutting-edge research into auditable, enterprise-ready pipelines, he balances hands-on engineering with strategic client partnership. Based in Toronto, he’s actively seeking roles that leverage his blend of cloud-native deployment expertise, NLP research background, and proven delivery leadership.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence Specialization, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence Specialization at Lakehead UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Shahid Beheshti UniversityMathematics, Mathematics at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad)
English, Persian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
laravel-package10
laravel9
php9
kotlin8
launcher8
multi-tenant8
ecommerce8
anki7
android7
vue7
raise7
html6
visual-studio6
html-table6
open-source6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
am-shb/calculator
Jan 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 release, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
am-shb/cerebro-window-manager
Mar 2019 - May 2021
Cerebro plugin to list open windows and raise or close them.
Contributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 1 month
cerebro-pluginwindowscerebroraiseplugin
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