Jafar Taghiyar
Engineering Manager - AI Content Understanding at Meta
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJafar Taghiyar is an engineering manager specializing in AI-driven content understanding, currently leading ML efforts at Meta with a six-year track record of building and scaling production ML platforms. He combines hands-on modeling in computer vision and NLP with team building and operational best practices that have turned high-cost projects into profitable products. His background spans bioinformatics and applied ML across industry and non-profit settings, including leadership roles at AuthenticID, Logic20/20, Microsoft engagements, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Jafar is skilled at translating research-grade methods into robust, maintainable systems and mentoring cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business impact. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he blends an academic foundation (M.A.Sc) with practical engineering dating back to early software roles, giving him uncommon depth across research, product, and platform engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers simple, cost-effective solutions to complex technical challenges.
6 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering at Isfahan University of TechnologyM.A.Sc, Engineering Science, M.A.Sc, Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Persian
Github Skills (3)
jenkins8
testing6
unit-testing6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
jenkinsci/JenkinsPipelineUnit
May 2021 - May 2021
Framework for unit testing Jenkins pipelines
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
jenkinstestingunitpipelines-as-codepipelines
jafartaghiyar/hello-world
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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