Payam Pakarha - Product Data Scientist

Payam Pakarha

Product Data Scientist

Burlingame, California, United States

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Payam Pakarha is a Product Data Scientist with a decade of experience applying statistical rigor and machine learning to product and security problems across fintech and e-commerce, now driving analytics and experimentation for Meta’s Reality Labs. With a PhD in experimental astroparticle physics and hands-on experience in computer vision, OCR, and large-scale ML pipelines, he bridges deep quantitative foundations and production-grade data engineering. He has led cross-functional projects at RBC and Shopify that turned ambiguous business needs into explainable ML solutions and repeatable deployment workflows. Based in Burlingame, CA, he favors challenges that span the full data lifecycle—from ingestion and processing to modeling and visualization—and mentors teams to adopt reproducible, scalable practices. Notably, his background in physics informs a hypothesis-driven approach to product experimentation and security analytics.

10 years of coding experience

6 years of employment as a software developer

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Experimental astroparticle physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Experimental astroparticle physics at University of Zurich

Master of Science - MS Engineering Physics, Master of Science - MS Engineering Physics at EPFL

Bachelor of Science - BS Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics at Sharif University of Technology

Github Skills (5)

react3

laravel3

raw-data2

aerospike1

data-processing1

Programming languages (2)

HTMLPython

Github contributions (5)

Payampakarha/SmartStart

Jun 2019 - Jun 2019

Finding best locations to start a new business

Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day

laravelreactfindinglocations

Payampakarha/cute_calibration_system

Dec 2018 - Mar 2019

Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months

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