Pooya Sarabandi
Head Of AI & Data Analytics
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPooya Sarabandi is a data- and product-driven AI leader with 20+ years of experience building AI/ML, risk modeling, and embedded insurance products across FinTech and InsurTech. Currently Head of AI & Data Analytics at Bolt and Managing Partner at Karuna Venture Partners, he blends hands-on engineering (NodeJS, Python, cloud) with strategic GTM and product leadership for usage-based, episodic, and telematics insurance. His career spans founding product teams at StandardC, leading exposure and catastrophe analytics at RMS, and driving AI-driven underwriting and KYB/KYC compliance solutions—often at the intersection of geospatial, remote sensing and financial crime detection. He’s known for turning complex catastrophe and liability models into commercial SaaS and embedded insurance offerings and for bringing academic rigor from Stanford and world-bank consulting into product delivery. An often-overlooked strength is his experience applying embedded systems and structural-health monitoring techniques (from DARPA-funded work) to real-world insurance risk and IoT telematics use cases.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
PhD ENGINEERING, PhD ENGINEERING at Stanford University
Github Skills (39)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pooyasf/DGM
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:57 commits, 54 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
pooyasf/Simulation
Mar 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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