Pouya Barrach-yousefi
Chief Data & AI Officer
Potomac, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolPouya Barrach-yousefi is a Chief Data & AI Officer and founder with 11+ years delivering enterprise-scale AI, cloud and data platform transformations across pharma, healthcare, federal and SaaS sectors. He blends hands-on engineering (Python, Spark, ML frameworks, LangChain) with C-suite strategy, having led multimillion-dollar migrations, data governance programs, and DevSecOps FedRAMP modernizations for high-sensitivity clients. Pouya has a track record of turning proofs-of-concept into $10M partnerships, consistently cutting infrastructure costs 30–50% while scaling AI systems to billions of transactions. He mentors cross-functional teams, builds production-ready MLOps and lakehouse architectures, and commercialized internal data catalogs into client products at IQVIA. Active in DeepTech for human rights and early-stage investing, he pairs an ESIEE Paris comp-sci background and dual Johns Hopkins MBA/MS training with a pragmatic focus on measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at ESIEE PARISUMBCBiochemistry, Biochemistry at University of MarylandMagnet Diploma / Maryland High School Diploma, Math, Science, Computer Science Magnet, Magnet Diploma / Maryland High School Diploma, Math, Science, Computer Science Magnet at Montgomery Blair High School
English, Persian, french - 620 (tfi 2015), German
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Github Skills (60)
serverless8
azure8
operating-system8
python8
dotnet8
pulumi8
aws8
conda8
gcp8
package-management8
csharp8
cloud-computing7
fsharp7
infrastructure-as-code7
javascript7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pyousefi/MOTIS_PROJECTS
May 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 17 PRs, 49 pushes in 10 months
kagglemotispythonsciencedata-science
PouyaData/pouyadata.github.io
Aug 2025 - Jan 2026
Data Rules Everything Around Me
Contributions:55 PRs, 75 pushes, 50 branches in 5 months
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