Arad Ashrafi
Technical Lead at Duologue Systems
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolArad Ashrafi is a Technical Lead and AI engineer with eight years of experience building production-scale ML and NLP systems that prioritize social impact, particularly in healthcare and reintegration services. He specializes in fine-tuning and deploying large language models (including Llama 3.1 70B) using PEFT methods like LoRA/QLoRA, and has optimized serverless runtimes for large models to run reliably in production. Arad has designed robust RAG and multi-agent architectures that handle misinformation checks, location-aware recommendations, and resource retrieval, and pairs those systems with React UIs and RESTful APIs for actionable client workflows. His background spans research and applied roles—from peer-reviewed publications and explainable AI research at the University of Alberta to hands-on deployments across startups and clinics—bridging academic rigor with product delivery. He also brings practical ops experience in serverless fault tolerance, monitoring, and synthetic data pipelines, which helps keep models both performant and responsible in real-world settings. Based in Edmonton, he combines leadership and mentorship experience with a demonstrated focus on leveraging AI for measurable societal benefit.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of AlbertaAmirkabir University of TechnologyHIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad)
English, Persian
Stackoverflow
31reputation
915reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (26)
causal-inference9
coreference-resolution9
causality8
graphical-models8
testing7
machine-learning7
dowhy7
ubuntu6
flutter6
android6
python6
data-science6
react5
nlp5
bert5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sarb9/KhabarYaab
Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:22 PRs, 34 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 1 month
AradAshrafi/graphsearchalgorithms_geneticalgorithm_hillclimbing
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 28 days
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