Matityahu Sarafzadeh
Lead Data Scientist
Israel
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Top SchoolMatityahu Sarafzadeh is a Lead Data Scientist based in Israel with 11 years of experience building and operationalizing machine learning solutions across fintech, cybersecurity, mobile personalization, and consumer products. At PayPal he leads data science efforts, and previously scaled teams and end-to-end projects at Soluto—from ideation and OKRs to production deployment and monitoring. His background spans deep learning, NLP, semi-supervised methods, explainable AI and UEBA-style fraud detection, with measurable business impact such as multimillion-dollar savings and a 17% uplift for a major retailer. A hands-on mentor and public speaker, he also has a track record of turning academic research into production-ready models and building POCs that attracted significant funding.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning by Andrew Ng, Machine Learning by Andrew Ng at CourseraCS231n - Computer Vision and Convolutional Neural Networks, CS231n - Computer Vision and Convolutional Neural Networks at Stanford University (taught by JerusML Deep Learning Course)Bachelor's Degree, Telecommunication Systems Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Telecommunication Systems Engineering at Lev Academic Center (JCT)Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Machine Learning at Tel-Aviv Deep Learning Boot Camp
English, Hebrew, persian (farsi)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (68)
gradient-boosting8
parallelization8
python8
deep-learning8
convolution8
machine-learning8
shapley8
typescript8
shap8
gradient-descent7
pandas-dataframe7
editor7
numerics7
portable7
gradient7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
msarafzadeh/Standford-DeepLearningCNN-CS231n
Feb 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:9 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
msarafzadeh/image-super-resolution
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:59 commits, 79 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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