Kia Ashtiani
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKia Ashtiani is a product leader who turns complex AI, cloud, and data problems into scalable products, with 8–12 years of experience across enterprise, scale-up, and public-sector environments. Currently leading ERP, integrations, and logistics automation at TradeCafe, she grew the integration ecosystem from 5 to 15+ live connections and rescued multiple critical integrations on day one. A former data scientist, ML researcher, and university instructor, she uniquely bridges deep technical fluency in optimization, game theory, and MLOps with strategic product delivery and executive communication. At Avanade she was among the first to operationalize GenAI capabilities—designing RAG architectures, mitigation strategies, and responsible-AI guardrails for large clients. She cares deeply about responsible AI adoption, preferring transparent, controlled agentic systems that improve decision quality rather than quietly degrading platforms. Multilingual and research-published, Kia combines rigorous academic tooling (CPLEX/Gurobi, Databricks, Azure OpenAI) with hands-on product execution.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Concordia Universitynokhbegan allame tabataba iyBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Shahid Beheshti University
German, English, Persian, FrenchGithub contributions (5)
kiababashahi/The-Uncapacitated-Facility-location-problem
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
kiababashahi/Spell-check-and-BK-Trees
Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 push in 1 year 11 months
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