Pooya Najaf
Data Science & AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPooya Najaf is a data science and AI leader with over 15 years of experience and a proven track record of scaling analytics organizations across finance, insurance, retail, and cybersecurity. He has held progressive leadership roles—from Data Analyst to Director of Data Science—most recently joining Palo Alto Networks after strategic data science leadership at Walmart. Pooya blends deep technical expertise (PhD-level research background) with hands-on delivery, driving production ML systems and cross-functional data strategies. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he’s comfortable navigating large enterprise complexity while still rolling up his sleeves on model design and deployment. A pragmatic strategist, he is known for turning research ideas into auditable, business-impacting solutions across diverse industries.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Github Skills (3)
reboot7
python5
forecasting4
Github contributions (5)
Pooya3a/tfresource.github.io
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
Travel Forecasting Resource - website reboot
Contributions:19 pushes in 2 months
forecastingtravelpythonreboot
Pooya3a/FANtastic
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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