Bijan Varjavand
TPM at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBijan Varjavand is a machine learning engineer and technical program manager with a decade of experience building end-to-end ML systems for computer vision, time series forecasting, and deployed inference at scale. He has delivered productionized ML-Ops ecosystems—containerized microservices, automated retraining pipelines, and secure storage—that powered multifaceted projects from context-aware audio/video assistants to 50+ time-series models and agricultural forecasting for smallholder co-ops. Bijan has moved between startups, government labs, and enterprise, bringing hands-on expertise in TensorFlow/PyTorch, MLflow/DVC, and cloud deployment while writing technical proposals and guiding cross-disciplinary teams. He pairs rigorous academic training (MS in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins, work on terabyte-scale 3D brain data and published graph-statistics papers) with practical product instincts from founding a successful ag-tech startup. Notably, he’s bridged research and applied engineering—shipping audio/face ID models, ASR/TTS integrations, and GAN-based image tools—while advocating for ML-Ops adoption across teams. Based in San Francisco, he now focuses on making AI systems robust and impactful in high-stakes settings.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins University School of Education
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (59)
computational-neuroscience10
python10
graph10
vector-database10
autoencoder10
llm10
neuroscience10
fine-tuning10
neuroimaging10
cognitive-science10
data-structures10
gpt10
application10
data-science9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
neurodata/brainlit
Jan 2020 - Jun 2021
Method container for computational neuroscience on brains.
Contributions:3 releases, 16 reviews, 416 commits in 1 year 4 months
autoencoderneuroimagingneurosciencepythoncognitive-science
bvarjavand/MaterialsLab
Sep 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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