Summary
Pooya Moradi is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with 12 years of experience building and optimizing large-scale ML systems and production services. He previously worked as an Applied Research Scientist at Microsoft developing billion-parameter conversational and summarization models and has a thesis background in NLP interpretability from Simon Fraser University. Pooya has deep hands-on experience deploying efficient inference across accelerators (TPU/GPU) and migrating monolithic fintech and search systems to resilient microservices in high-throughput production environments. His full-stack background spans Python, Go, Kubernetes, and distributed databases, combined with practical work on payments, search indexing, and image super-resolution. Known for bridging research and engineering, he focuses on making cutting-edge ML models performant and reliable in real-world infrastructure. Notably, his early career arc includes building core payment rails and search cores that handled millions of queries and transactions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Software Engineering at University of Tehran
Allameh Helli High School of Tehran
Master's degree Natural Language Processing, Master's degree Natural Language Processing at Simon Fraser University
English, Persian