Summary
Nadaa Taiyab is a Fractional Head of AI who helps healthcare and mission-driven organizations turn stalled pilots into production systems that scale and deliver measurable ROI. With 11 years of experience, she has led AI work at Providence and McKesson, built an AI function from scratch as Founding Head of AI at a health‑tech startup, and now embeds part-time as a senior leader and hands‑on engineer. Her work spans Databricks medallion architectures, NL→SQL interfaces, large-scale RAG systems, voice agents that cut patient referral waits to under 24 hours, and a patented clinical-text de-identification pipeline applied to over 1.8B notes. She combines strategy, team-building, governance, and production-grade MLOps—often taking organizations beyond surface-level applications to build the data foundations that keep solutions running in production. Based in Encinitas, CA, Nadaa brings operator experience as a former COO/CFO and founder, enabling her to translate technical investments into operational and financial outcomes. She’s especially skilled at diagnosing blockers early and designing pragmatic, HIPAA-compliant paths to ship AI fast.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Nutrition & Dietetics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Nutrition & Dietetics at Arizona State University
Certificate Data Science and Machine Learning, Certificate Data Science and Machine Learning at Galvanize Inc
Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) International Business & Environmental Policy, Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) International Business & Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University
Bachelor of Arts (BA) International Relations Pre-Med, Bachelor of Arts (BA) International Relations Pre-Med at University of Pennsylvania
English, Spanish, French, Indonesian