Pouyan Rezakhani
Senior Software Engineer, LLM at NVIDIA
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPouyan Rezakhani is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in LLMs at NVIDIA with eight years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing, and quantitative finance. He holds an MS in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Zurich and has delivered research-driven production systems—ranging from NLP pipelines and financial news aggregation to high-accuracy information-extraction packages used in banking contexts. His background includes advanced systemic-risk research and novel algorithmic contributions (one implementation reportedly hundreds of thousands of times faster than predecessors), showing an unusual blend of theoretical rigor and pragmatic engineering. Based in Zurich, he brings GenAI-focused SWE experience at NVIDIA atop earlier data-science roles at Bank J. Safra Sarasin and EVMTech, where he improved model accuracy to around 93% for financial text tasks. Colleagues would note his ability to translate academic research into robust, well-documented software that scales in regulated finance and cutting-edge AI environments.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Economics, Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Economics at University of ZurichBachelor of Science - BS Information Technology Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology Engineering at University of Tehran
English
Github Skills (79)
python10
deep-learning10
squad10
pandas10
transfer-learning10
summarization10
data-science10
data-analysis10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
manipulation10
frame10
chatgpt9
dataframes9
sdk9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Pouyanpi/NeMo-Guardrails
May 2023 - Oct 2024
NeMo Guardrails is an open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems.
Contributions:19 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 4 months
NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails
May 2023 - Apr 2025
NeMo Guardrails is an open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems.
Contributions:6 releases, 252 reviews, 240 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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