Summary
Nora Hajjar is a Senior AI Engineer with a decade of experience building production-grade AI/ML platforms and deploying LLMs at scale, currently driving applied research at Microsoft. She has led end-to-end AI infrastructure and MLOps work—designing backend systems, model packaging, and high-throughput inference pipelines—after building the AI/data platform at ScienceIO and the first data platform at Maven Clinic. Her background blends rigorous computational policy training from the University of Chicago with practical product and startup experience, spanning healthcare, political analytics, and ad-tech. Nora is comfortable bridging research and production: she tunes and fine-tunes models, orchestrates containerized deployments, and optimizes model performance under operational constraints. Known for hiring and leading small data/platform teams, she brings a rare combination of hands-on engineering, ML research curiosity, and domain fluency in transforming unstructured text (medical and consumer) into structured insights.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service: Political Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service: Political Science at Georgetown University
General Assembly
Core: Credential of Readiness, Core: Credential of Readiness at HBX | Harvard Business School
Master of Science - MS in Computational Analysis and Public Policy (MS-CAPP), Master of Science - MS in Computational Analysis and Public Policy (MS-CAPP) at University of Chicago
English, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese