Payam Esfandiari
Director Of Data
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolPayam Esfandiari is a data-driven technology leader with 10+ years of experience architecting and scaling analytics, ML, and real-time data systems across fintech, logistics, and consumer platforms. Currently Director of Data at Snappfood in Dubai, he leads a 30-person team that has shipped revenue-driving ML products—from personalized ads and recommendation engines to Iran’s first LLM-based chat assistant—and cut ETA delays and churn through predictive systems. Previously he built production-grade AI capabilities at DFreight and BluBank, including LLM-powered email/document parsers, a credit-scoring platform with sub-0.5% default rates, and a fraud system that cut losses by 90%. With a PhD-level computer science background and hands-on engineering roots in Django and end-to-end pipelines, he blends deep technical craft with business impact and a penchant for turning research ideas into operational services. An underappreciated strength is his track record of implementing CQRS/Kafka architectures that enable real-time experimentation and rapid iteration across organizations.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Sharif University of Technology
Persian, English, Arabic
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Github Skills (17)
amazon-textract5
stream5
textract5
redis4
faust4
ray4
python3
streaming3
kafka3
amazon3
asyncio2
distributed-systems2
data-stream2
stream-processing2
streaming-data2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
payamesfandiari/fake_news_finder
Feb 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
payamesfandiari/payamesfandiari
Dec 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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