Kamelia Aryafar
Head Of AI, Members at The Jed Foundation (JED)
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKamelia Aryafar is a veteran AI and engineering leader who builds large-scale generative AI, search and recommendation platforms, currently leading AI for Members at Netflix. She founded and shipped core enterprise offerings at Google—Gemini Enterprise, Agentspace, Vertex AI Search and Grounded Gemini—managing organizations of 650+ ML engineers and scientists to productionize LLMs with a focus on grounding and factuality. Before Google she scaled AI and engineering at Overstock (EVP, CAO) and drove ML integration across Etsy’s product stack, giving her rare cross-domain experience from e-commerce personalization to conversational commerce. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science with published research on multimodality and remains an active industry speaker and board member advocating for standards and diversity in AI. A practical researcher-executive, she blends academic rigor with product-driven delivery and a track record of taking complex platform innovations from zero to GA.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Mathematics, High School Diploma, Mathematics at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad)Executive Education, Executive Education at University of Utah - David Eccles School of BusinessDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Drexel UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
English, PersianGithub contributions (5)
karyafar/openAir2015
Jun 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
karyafar/Code-as-Craft-2015
May 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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