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I am a Lead Data Scientist and AI Engineer with over 10 years of experience delivering production-grade AI solutions across industrial manufacturing, eCommerce, and retail. My expertise spans machine learning, generative AI, and optimization, with a strong focus on building scalable systems that drive business impact—from predictive analytics and recommendation systems to RAG-based GenAI applications and large-scale optimization models. I currently work as an independent AI consultant, supporting organizations in adopting and implementing modern AI solutions to improve decision-making, efficiency, and scalability.…I am a Lead Data Scientist and AI Engineer with over 10 years of experience delivering production-grade AI solutions across industrial manufacturing, eCommerce, and retail. My expertise spans machine learning, generative AI, and optimization, with a strong focus on building scalable systems that drive business impact—from predictive analytics and recommendation systems to RAG-based GenAI applications and large-scale optimization models. I currently work as an independent AI consultant, supporting organizations in adopting and implementing modern AI solutions to improve decision-making, efficiency, and scalability.

Aylin Jarrah Nezhad

Data Scientist, AI Engineer, AI Developer, +4

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I am a Lead Data Scientist and AI Engineer with over 10 years of experience delivering production-grade AI solutions across industrial manufacturing, eCommerce, and retail. My expertise spans machine learning, generative AI, and optimization, with a strong focus on building scalable systems that drive business impact—from predictive analytics and recommendation systems to RAG-based GenAI applications and large-scale optimization models. I currently work as an independent AI consultant, supporting organizations in adopting and implementing modern AI solutions to improve decision-making, efficiency, and scalability.…I am a Lead Data Scientist and AI Engineer with over 10 years of experience delivering production-grade AI solutions across industrial manufacturing, eCommerce, and retail. My expertise spans machine learning, generative AI, and optimization, with a strong focus on building scalable systems that drive business impact—from predictive analytics and recommendation systems to RAG-based GenAI applications and large-scale optimization models. I currently work as an independent AI consultant, supporting organizations in adopting and implementing modern AI solutions to improve decision-making, efficiency, and scalability.

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I am a Lead Data Scientist and AI Engineer with over 10 years of experience delivering production-grade AI solutions across industrial manufacturing, eCommerce, and retail. My expertise spans machine learning, generative AI, and optimization, with a strong focus on building scalable systems that drive business impact—from predictive analytics and recommendation systems to RAG-based GenAI applications and large-scale optimization models. I currently work as an independent AI consultant, supporting organizations in adopting and implementing modern AI solutions to improve decision-making, efficiency, and scalability.

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Work Experience

Lead Data Science and Insights at Novelis

July 1, 2024 - September 30, 2024

Delivered scalable predictive analytics frameworks to enhance operational decision-making and efficiency by building flexible data pipelines, conducting in-depth analysis on 600+ variables to identify key drivers, and systematically developing and evaluating models using both standard and custom metrics. Additionally, created reusable, user-friendly templates and documentation to standardize workflows and enable both technical and non-technical users to perform consistent, high-quality predictive analysis.

Senior Data Scientist at Novelis

January 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024

Delivered a range of GenAI, optimization, and advanced analytics projects, including a multilingual RAG-based chatbot using GPT-4 and ElasticSearch to provide context-aware sustainability insights, and enhancements to a large-scale production optimization system with ~80,000 decision variables to improve throughput and efficiency. Additionally, evaluated and improved predictive models against legacy systems and provided hands-on mentorship to support citizen data science initiatives and promote effective use of analytics tools.

Senior Data Scientist at Competec AG

January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022

Delivered analytics and AI-focused PoC projects including price elasticity analysis to quantify demand sensitivity and inform pricing strategies, customer retention and churn analysis to uncover behavioral patterns for improved marketing decisions, and data quality assessments to identify and address gaps in datasets, strengthening reliability for forecasting and downstream modeling.

Data Scientist at CNET Content Solutions (CBS)

June 1, 2016 - September 30, 2019

Led the end-to-end development of a global AI-powered product intelligence platform enabling automated, high-accuracy cross-sell recommendations for major retailers. Built NLP models using entity extraction and CRF to process unstructured, multilingual product data, and designed scalable data pipelines with web scraping and Elastic Stack to handle multi-million scale datasets. Additionally, led an international team of 7 and acted as a key technical partner in solution design, delivery, and client integration to ensure long-term scalability and adoption.

Data Scientist at Competec AG

October 1, 2019 - December 31, 2021

Delivered large-scale demand forecasting and logistics optimization solutions by engineering product-level datasets, benchmarking multiple forecasting models through simulation and back-testing, and collaborating cross-functionally to deploy a system across 150,000+ products—improving forecast accuracy, reducing working capital, and maintaining service levels. Additionally, supervised the development of workforce optimization models using time series predictions and visualizations to enhance labor allocation efficiency.

AI Sabbatical | Generative AI, Agentic Systems & MLOps at Independent

October 1, 2024 - Present

Focused on advancing expertise in Generative AI, agentic systems, MLOps, and cloud-based ML, building hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG pipelines, and multi-agent workflows, and developing scalable AI applications on Azure. Applied this knowledge through real-world use cases and founded "Jarrah Nezhad AI Solutions", providing freelance services in AI, data science, and advanced analytics.

Lead Data Scientist at Novelis

January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2024

End-to-end analytics framework standardizing processes, enabling scalable analytics across teams and projects in aluminum production. Automated Demand Forecasting for 150K+ products, enabling inventory optimization through predictive modeling of optimal order lead times and quantities with 96% precision in AB testing.

Senior Data Scientist at Competec AG

January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2022

Created multilingual sustainability chatbot using GenAI, GPT-4, and RAG with vector database; maintained a manufacturing optimization model solving 80K+ decision variables to improve throughput and reduce CO2 emissions; built data validation and mapping tool and led cross-functional team.

Data Analyst / Team Lead at CBS (CNET Content Solutions), St-Légier

January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2019

Led an international team of 4 Data Analysts and 3 Software Developers; developed and maintained data analytics solutions; integrated NLP-based content extraction and data pipelines; built dashboards and visualizations for decision support.