As a Senior AI Engineer at Summer, I specialize in developing cutting-edge Agentic AI systems, most notably the "Sunny" platform, an advanced AI-driven assistant for real-estate market intelligence. My work includes designing conversational workflows, analytical tools for exploring property listings, and ensuring scalable, reliable agent execution through robust production infrastructure and observability systems. With a PhD in Engineering from the University of Waterloo, my expertise spans LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, and production-grade machine learning pipelines. My career includes impactful roles in fintech, insurance, and computer vision, where I contributed to automating complex processes and enabling data-driven decision-making. I am committed to building scalable, intelligent AI solutions that address real-world challenges.

Mohammad Zarei

As a Senior AI Engineer at Summer, I specialize in developing cutting-edge Agentic AI systems, most notably the "Sunny" platform, an advanced AI-driven assistant for real-estate market intelligence. My work includes designing conversational workflows, analytical tools for exploring property listings, and ensuring scalable, reliable agent execution through robust production infrastructure and observability systems. With a PhD in Engineering from the University of Waterloo, my expertise spans LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, and production-grade machine learning pipelines. My career includes impactful roles in fintech, insurance, and computer vision, where I contributed to automating complex processes and enabling data-driven decision-making. I am committed to building scalable, intelligent AI solutions that address real-world challenges.

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As a Senior AI Engineer at Summer, I specialize in developing cutting-edge Agentic AI systems, most notably the “Sunny” platform, an advanced AI-driven assistant for real-estate market intelligence. My work includes designing conversational workflows, analytical tools for exploring property listings, and ensuring scalable, reliable agent execution through robust production infrastructure and observability systems.

With a PhD in Engineering from the University of Waterloo, my expertise spans LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, and production-grade machine learning pipelines. My career includes impactful roles in fintech, insurance, and computer vision, where I contributed to automating complex processes and enabling data-driven decision-making. I am committed to building scalable, intelligent AI solutions that address real-world challenges.

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Work Experience

Senior AI Engineer at GoSummer.com
January 1, 2025 - Present
Developed Agentic platform 'Sunny', an AI-driven assistant for real-estate market intelligence. Designed conversational workflows and custom analytical tools enabling investors to explore and evaluate 1M+ property listings in real time. Engineered end-to-end observability and production infrastructure, integrating deep tracing, Logfire instrumentation, regression tests, thread-based conversation management, tool-call/prompt semantic caching, async I/O, and real-time streaming with FastAPI and Redis pub/sub, enabling reliable and scalable agent execution.
ML Engineer (Agentic AI) at Boosted.ai
January 1, 2024 - January 1, 2024
Implemented end-to-end Gen AI features/APIs powering AI-driven portfolio-analysis agents including personalized prompt library/recommendation/monitoring, embedding-based search, RAG-based commentary writer, web crawler, memory library, and planner. Utilized model routing, semantic caching, prompt optimization, input/output sanitation, secret management, and proper fallback strategies to improve system reliability.
Data Scientist at Aviva Canada
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2023
Optimized product performance and marketing campaigns applying predictive modeling techniques (X-Sell, Attribution, Acquisition, Retention, CLV), boosting annual sales by $2M through optimizing simulated campaigns with stochastic mixed-integer linear programming. Developed a NER-based pipeline to extract/verify claimed discounts and detect fraud. Prototyped a RAG-based AI assistant to answer employees’ questions based on local docs.
Machine Learning Consultant (contract) at Proxify/PhotoGauge
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2023
Automated 3D scan quality assessment pipelines using multimodal Generative AI models, reducing manual review effort. Applied large vision-language models for diagnosing photogrammetry issues, and automated 3D scan quality assessment saving 10+ h/month.
Research Scientist at MASHHAD / WATERLOO
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2016
Built ML pipelines for safety screening, optimizing data processing and predictive modeling workflows. Developed and deployed a location risk scoring API on AWS for real-time safety analysis. Created YOLO-based sign detection models and CGAN-based anomaly detection for enhanced monitoring and risk assessment. Optimized green marketing ROI through data collection, simulation, and analytics; Designed GAB optimization framework, improving ROI by 60%.

Education

Ph.D. at University of Waterloo
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2023
M.Sc. at University of Ferdowsi
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2019
B.Sc. at Sharif University of Technology
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2016

Qualifications

AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty
January 11, 2030 - December 8, 2025
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
January 11, 2030 - December 8, 2025
DevOps Bootcamp
January 11, 2030 - December 8, 2025
Data Science Specialization - University of Colorado Boulder
January 11, 2030 - December 8, 2025
Computer Science Specialization - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
January 11, 2030 - December 8, 2025
NLP Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
January 11, 2030 - December 8, 2025
Smart Contract Development with Solidity and Python
January 11, 2030 - December 8, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services

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