Summary
Yousof Erfani is an ML Architect and tech lead based in Sunnyvale with a decade of experience building and productionizing end-to-end AI and data pipelines across finance, healthcare and consumer applications. He combines deep academic training (PhD + postdoc) in signal processing and machine learning with hands-on MLOps at scale—designing Spark/Airflow pipelines, containerized model serving on Kubernetes, and monitoring with MLflow and Splunk. His work spans NLP (LLMs, OCR, NER for medical and financial text), time-series forecasting, anomaly detection and computer vision, and he has led POCs and MVPs for major clients including Apple, FedEx and Citi. More than a practitioner, he has founded an analytics consultancy and published research on neural decoding and sparse signal representations, reflecting a blend of applied research and production engineering.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral researcher, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Postdoctoral researcher, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at McMaster University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering(Machine Learning), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering(Machine Learning) at Université de Sherbrooke
Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineering (Signal Processing), Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineering (Signal Processing) at Sharif University of Technology
English, French, Persian