Summary
Behdad Mirzaei is a founder and seasoned data scientist with nine years of hands-on experience building production ML systems and data models that align with business goals. He led end-to-end ranking and monetization pipelines at Branch—delivering a real-time/offline scoring stack that increased CPMs sevenfold—and has deep experience in fraud detection and large-scale telemetry analytics. Based in San Jose, he now leads FlexiOps AI, applying AI Ops to help SMBs, especially restaurant groups, automate operations and forecast demand for leaner profitability. His background spans co-founding an analytics firm that delivered 100+ MIS/BI projects to enterprise customers and driving cross-functional solutions at Nauto managing billions of daily telemetry points. Known for translating complex requirements into pragmatic data products, he blends strategic leadership with hands-on model deployment and a knack for cost-conscious, flexible cloud solutions. Unexpectedly, his trajectory pairs early entrepreneurial analytics at scale with a modern data science bootcamp credential, bridging decades of systems engineering with current ML practice.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Data science immersive bootcamp, Certificate Data science immersive bootcamp at General Assembly
Bs Computer Software Engineering, Bs Computer Software Engineering at University of Tehran
Certificate MBA, Certificate MBA at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian