Faryar Ghaemi
Lead Product Manager at PayPal
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolFaryar Ghaemi is a Lead Product Manager at PayPal with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience blending product leadership, full‑stack engineering, and data-driven UX. Raised in Tehran and based in New York, he pairs a multicultural perspective and fluency in Farsi and German with hands‑on skills in Ruby, Elixir, Python, JavaScript, SQL, and Rails/Phoenix stacks. He has guided products from startup acquisition (StudyKIK) through enterprise roles (Syneos Health) and now to fintech, consistently using A/B testing, analytics, and discovery to align teams and drive outcomes. Early engineering roles at The RealReal and a background in consulting and project management give him a practical edge in execution and stakeholder communication. Trained across software engineering, data science, and UX, he combines technical depth with rigorous product discipline to move ambiguous problems into measurable results. Outside product work he uniquely bridges molecular biology and political science academic roots with modern engineering practice, which informs his research-oriented approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Political Science & Molecular and Cell Biology, Political Science & Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California, BerkeleySoftware Engineering Bootcamp, Software Engineering Bootcamp at General AssemblyPolitical Science, International Relations and Affairs, Political Science, International Relations and Affairs at Freie Universität Berlin
English, Persian, German
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
faryar48/chalkdust
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:53 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
amysimmons/burning-airlines
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:45 commits, 34 pushes in 1 month
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