Pouya Larjani
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolPouya Larjani is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of professional experience and a decade-plus engineering background spanning research and product roles at Meta, Helm.ai, and Amazon. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from McMaster and combines deep academic rigor with hands-on production experience building ML systems for large-scale services and autonomy. At Meta he worked as a research scientist and later transitioned to applied ML roles at Helm.ai and Amazon, demonstrating a rare blend of research-grade modeling and production software engineering. Pouya is also an active open-source contributor with meaningful commits to high-profile SDKs like Facebook’s iOS and Android SDKs, showing comfort across mobile and backend integration. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he brings cross-domain fluency—from systems architecture to in-app purchase and sharing workflows—and a track record of shipping robust, user-facing features. Colleagues would describe him as someone who bridges theoretical depth and pragmatic implementation, often surfacing subtle UX and integration improvements in widely used libraries.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at McMaster UniversityB.Sc Computer Science and Mathematics, B.Sc Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Toronto - University College
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Github Skills (20)
objective-c10
facebook-sdk10
ios10
mobile-development10
ui-design10
interface-design10
android-development10
java10
mobile-application10
javas10
sdk10
swift10
android-sdk9
ionic-framework6
nodejs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/facebook-android-sdk
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Used to integrate Android apps with Facebook Platform.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Pouya's commits focused on updating the RPS (Rock, Paper, Scissors) sample application within the Facebook Android SDK. They integrated in-app billing functionality, including the addition of a buy button, purchase handling, and a workaround for potential response code issues. The user also added in-app purchase functionality, including initialization, service connection, and purchase consumption logic, enhancing the sample's capabilities.
android-appssdkandroidfacebookintegrate
facebook/facebook-ios-sdk
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Used to integrate the Facebook Platform with your iOS & tvOS apps.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:3 releases, 15 commits, 6 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Pouya's contributions primarily involved modifications and additions to the Facebook iOS SDK. The commits indicate work on core components, including user interface elements within SmartDeviceDialogView and DeviceDialogView, involving QR code generation and display. They also made changes to the sharing functionality, by updating the implementation of ShareDialog in the FBSDKShareKit. Additionally, several changes indicate version updates and general maintenance of the SDK.
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