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NAKISA ABBASI

Toronto,Canada

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Data Scientist

CARFAX
Toronto, Ontario
10.2022 - Current
  • Designed and implemented dynamic optimization system for vehicle listings, improving dealer visibility and performance.
  • Built automated data pipeline with Flyte, integrating Dremio and AWS S3 for daily inventory processing of over 1,000 dealers.
  • Developed scoring models combining VIN-level features and profitability metrics to enhance dealer ranking logic.
  • Led A/B testing for premium listing system across 1,200 dealers, analyzing engagement lift of 10% to 50%.
  • Automated SQL versioning and S3 uploads, reducing manual overhead and improving deployment traceability.
  • Collaborated with product, engineering, and marketing teams to align listing optimization with lead quotas and exposure planning.
  • Analyzed large datasets to extract insights for informed decision-making.
  • Mentored junior analysts on data analysis best practices, enhancing team capabilities.

Co-Founder/ Data Scientist

Fooreco Inc - Online Food Ordering Application
04.2019 - 04.2022
  • Founded and led food-tech startup, creating food ordering platform for small restaurants from concept to launch.
  • Developed real-time analytics dashboards, reducing staffing costs by 10% through sales trend insights.
  • Deployed ML models for customer churn prediction and personalized food recommendations.
  • Conducted sentiment analysis on customer reviews to pinpoint satisfaction drivers and retention factors.
  • Executed A/B tests on new features to evaluate impact on order volume and user engagement.

Software Development Engineer in Test

Global Relay Communications Inc
09.2015 - 08.2020
  • Designed and implement test frameworks to perform functional, unit and regression test of web UI and APIs (C#, Selenium, spec-flow)
  • Created augmented data for different testing purposes

Software Developer/ Researcher

UBC Hospital
01.2013 - 03.2014
  • Designed and developed neurocognitive games for measuring inhibition, working memory, reasoning, and problem solving using C# in Unity3D platform
  • Collaborated with researcher to analysis and visualize the games output data using Matlab
  • Used the analyzed data to improve the games algorithm

Algorithm Developer / Data Science Intern

BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
06.2012 - 12.2012
  • Built and implemented an accurate model for blood pressure measurement for mobile app using Matlab (accuracy: 98%)
  • Created an automated method for compiling data from various studies
  • Created visualized health data

Education

Data Science Career Track -

Springboard
01.2022

Master of Software Systems -

UBC
Vancouver, Canada
01.2016

Masters of Biomedical Engineering -

UBC
Vancouver, Canada
01.2012

Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering -

Esfahan university
Iran

Skills

  • Data analytics and visualization tools
  • Statistical modeling and experimentation
  • ETL and data mining processes
  • Software development (Python, SQL, Spark, C#)
  • Workflow management (Airflow, Docker)
  • Predictive modeling

Timeline

Data Scientist

CARFAX
10.2022 - Current

Co-Founder/ Data Scientist

Fooreco Inc - Online Food Ordering Application
04.2019 - 04.2022

Software Development Engineer in Test

Global Relay Communications Inc
09.2015 - 08.2020

Software Developer/ Researcher

UBC Hospital
01.2013 - 03.2014

Algorithm Developer / Data Science Intern

BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
06.2012 - 12.2012

Data Science Career Track -

Springboard

Master of Software Systems -

UBC

Masters of Biomedical Engineering -

UBC

Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering -

Esfahan university

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