Hesam Dadafarin
Co-Founder And CTO at Tali AI
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolHesam Dadafarin is a founder and CTO with 10 years of experience building ML- and NLP-driven digital health products, currently leading Tali AI to integrate advanced natural language processing into EMRs to save time for clinicians and patients. He combines hands-on system architecture with product strategy, having co-founded Evenset and overseen complex IoT, ML and cloud integrations across healthcare and environmental domains. His background spans academic research (PhD-level work at McGill) and applied bioinformatics, which informs a rigorous, measurement-driven approach to sensor networks, API design, and scalable backend systems. Hesam has repeatedly taken teams from prototype to funding milestones, and he mentors early hires and students to transfer engineering practices. Based in Toronto, he blends deep technical craft with entrepreneurial leadership and a penchant for cross-disciplinary solutions that bridge lab research and production software.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Biotechnology/Bioinformatics, Master's degree Biotechnology/Bioinformatics at Sharif University of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of TehranDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at McGill University
French, German, Persian
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Github Skills (104)
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farsi10
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microsoft-sql-server10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
evenset/ketabdan-project
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Ketabdan is an opensource platform to publish electronic books, podcasts, short stories and more
Contributions:56 commits, 19 PRs, 23 pushes in 6 months
publishopensource-platformshortelectroniclms
evenset/ansible-node
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 months
deployingexpressjsin-productionnodejs-expressjsnodejs
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