Rofaida Abdelaal
Director, Product Management at Yahoo
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolRofaida Abdelaal is a Director of Product Management with 17 years of experience leading AI/ML product teams, currently heading Yahoo Mail Intelligence and its AI/ML platform in Sunnyvale. She partners closely with research and engineering to design and deploy large-scale ML solutions across mail extraction, classification, contextual ranking, personalization and generative AI, including LLM fine-tuning and email summarization. Known for relentless drive, high delivery standards and talent development, she consistently drives green OKRs by motivating cross-functional teams across the Yahoo ecosystem. Her background spans hands-on product and engineering roles—from founding a rapid-delivery e-commerce startup to building platform-level search and data initiatives at Movoto—giving her rare depth in both technical execution and product strategy. An alumna of Carnegie Mellon’s Software Management program, she combines rigorous product discipline with practical experience shipping high-impact ML systems at scale.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Computer Science, B.Sc, Computer Science at Alexandria UniversityMasters, Software Management, Masters, Software Management at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Arabic
Github Skills (2)
campus10
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Github contributions (3)
professor/whiteboard
Sep 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:90 commits in 6 months
curriculumsiliconsilicon-valleycampuscarnegie-mellon-university
rofy/rubyrt
Sep 2008 - Sep 2008
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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