Murtaza Jafferji
Senior Data Scientist
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMurtaza Jafferji is a Senior Data Scientist and seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems and scaling teams and platforms at Microsoft and high-growth startups. He combines hands-on development in Python, JavaScript, C#, and SQL with proven leadership—hiring and coaching teams, delivering an ML platform on AWS SageMaker, and driving data platform modernization and observability. A University of Washington MS in Data Science, he has repeatedly moved projects from prototype to production, including GenAI-driven answer engines and microservices for demand forecasting that influenced large financial decisions. As a four-time co-founder and creator of a browser game and mobile apps, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a knack for client-facing roles where he maintained 100% customer satisfaction over seven years. Notably, he blends distributed systems expertise (Spark, Docker, Kubernetes) with rapid prototyping for experiments that fail fast and iterate quickly.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at University of WashingtonBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Brandeis University
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Github Skills (22)
newspaper3k10
dumper10
parser8
crawler8
scraper8
json7
javascript7
yaml7
grid-layout7
angular6
grid6
ui-grid6
python6
transform5
deterministic5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yale/gist
Jun 2010 - Sep 2011
Contributions:579 commits in 1 year 3 months
murtazajafferji/package-eval
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:27 commits, 3 PRs, 26 pushes in 9 days
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