Summary
Faizaan Charania is a Senior Product Manager focused on ML and AI product strategy, currently leading Creator Ecosystem and Content Understanding efforts at LinkedIn from Sunnyvale. With about a decade of hands-on ML and product experience, he has launched generative AI creator features and driven feed, notification, and media-understanding algorithms that optimize content distribution at scale. Previously at Yahoo/Verizon Media he shipped personalized ranking and ad-targeting systems, led a unified ML platform adopted by hundreds of projects, and co-led web-scale clustering work that earned research recognition and patents. He pairs an academic foundation in data science with cross-functional execution—combining research-grade model development (e.g., RNNs and Random Forests for speech and time-series) with product roadmaps that deliver measurable lifts. Notably, he has applied ML across finance, recommendation, and media domains, and has a track record of converting research prototypes into production at large organizations.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Munshi Nagar Andheri Mumbai
Master's degree Computer Science (Data Science Track), Master's degree Computer Science (Data Science Track) at Stony Brook University
Gujarati, Marathi, Hindi, English