Jerome Kafrouni
Senior Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerome Kafrouni is a Senior Data Scientist with eight years of experience building scalable ML and data-driven systems across cloud, finance, and telecom industries. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science (Machine Learning) from Columbia and combines research-grade deep learning experience with pragmatic production engineering from roles at IBM, BNP Paribas, and now Microsoft DCIS. Jerome has led end-to-end projects—entity resolution with ElasticSearch/FAISS, recommender systems for financial news, fraud detection operationalization, and model inspection tooling—bridging product, R&D, and platform teams. He’s comfortable turning cutting-edge models into robust, auditable pipelines and has a track record evangelizing and benchmarking large language models inside regulated environments. Based in New York, he brings a rare mix of military-style operational discipline (officer training) and startup-to-enterprise versatility that helps teams scale AI responsibly.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science Entrepreneurship, Master's degree Computer Science Entrepreneurship at École PolytechniqueMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Columbia UniversityClasse préparatoire MPSI - MP Mathematics Physics Computer Science, Classe préparatoire MPSI - MP Mathematics Physics Computer Science at Lycée Saint-Louis, Paris
French, English, Arabic, Spanish
Github Skills (30)
machine-learning7
scikit-learn7
python6
gradient5
data-science5
scikit5
java3
jdbc2
storage2
azure-storage2
database2
fsspec2
sql2
api2
data-mining1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jkafrouni/feedback_search
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
jkafrouni/iterative_set_expansion
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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