Mark Faridani
Founder at Stealth AI Startup
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Faridani is a founder and machine learning leader with 15 years of experience building end-to-end ML systems, specializing in NLP, search, reinforcement learning and production-scale ML infrastructure. He holds an MS in Computer Science and a PhD in Operations Research from UC Berkeley with minors in ML and HCI, and spent a decade driving applied research and product ML at Microsoft and Apple before founding a stealth AI startup. Mark advises multiple AI and CV startups on reinforcement learning and automation, bridging deep research rigor with pragmatic engineering in Scala, Python, Java and large-data stacks like Hive and Cassandra. Comfortable moving systems from research to production, he also has hands-on background in metrics-driven model evaluation and human-centered ML interfaces—a thread that links his academic work at Berkeley to industry impact.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Operations Research, PhD, Operations Research at University of California, Berkeley
Persian, English, Italian
Github Skills (6)
matlab10
natural-language-processing10
stem2
ide2
corpus1
nlp1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
faridani/MatlabNLP
Jan 2012 - May 2012
Natural Language Processing tools for MATLAB
Contributions:75 commits in 4 months
matlabnatural-language-processing
faridani/multi-codex
Nov 2025 - Jan 2026
Contributions:41 PRs, 46 pushes, 47 branches in 1 month
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