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Kourosh Ghaffari

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Product Manager

Optum
09.2023 - Current
  • Lead multiple projects that incorporate custom search engine capabilities onto websites within the company
  • Set up analytics documents to track search engine's performance on deployed websites and monitor its practicality
  • Work with engineers to create architecture and product-requirement documents for team projects

Technology Development Program Associate

Optum
09.2022 - 09.2023
  • Worked on the Platform side of the Unified Enterprise Search team to improve infrastructure of custom search engine
  • Created cron jobs for Jenkins pipelines, argo namespaces, and AWS artifacts to reduce service costs and confirm suitability of newly published code
  • Organized and tested processes run within custom search engine

Computer Science Teaching Assistant

Boston University
09.2021 - 05.2022
  • Assisted in teaching 50+ students in an undergraduate computer science seminar specializing in F# and Ocaml
  • Hosted office hour sessions and answered student inquiries or concerns outside of class hours

Data Science Intern

Phimentum Corp.
05.2021 - 08.2021
  • Researched the income, services, and population of dental clinics across 20 major towns in Massachusetts
  • Communicated with 100+ dental offices in the Greater-Boston area to inquire about orthodontic services offered
  • Translated data sets into visual graphs for company heads to present findings on suitability of using our product

Customer Service Operations Intern

XIRA Connect Inc
05.2020 - 08.2020
  • Extended the basic structure of the company’s technical support ticketing system to optimize efficiency
  • Created organization systems to group ticket subjects by key words and macros
  • Contributed to the creation of training documentation and assisted with training of new hires

Engineering Lab Intern

UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering
06.2019 - 08.2019
  • Collaborated on graduate-level project that used drone technology to replicate environment virtually
  • Tested code for the autonomous drone piloting during its initial flight testing phase

Research Assistant

Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
06.2018 - 08.2018
  • Assisted lab research on cell differentiation in swine and human tooth bud cells directed by Dr. Pamela Yelick
  • Stained tooth bud samples to make them distinguishable for researchers to observe

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Computer Science And Statistics

Boston University
Boston, MA
08-2022

Skills

  • Programming Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, C, Matlab, Ocaml, F#, R
  • Operating Systems: Windows 10, macOS, Linux
  • Software: SQL, MS Excel, MS Word, Jenkins, AWS, Argo, Vespa

Timeline

Associate Product Manager

Optum
09.2023 - Current

Technology Development Program Associate

Optum
09.2022 - 09.2023

Computer Science Teaching Assistant

Boston University
09.2021 - 05.2022

Data Science Intern

Phimentum Corp.
05.2021 - 08.2021

Customer Service Operations Intern

XIRA Connect Inc
05.2020 - 08.2020

Engineering Lab Intern

UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering
06.2019 - 08.2019

Research Assistant

Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
06.2018 - 08.2018

Bachelor of Arts - Computer Science And Statistics

Boston University

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