Toronto, Canada

Amir Zarie

PhD in Neuroscience · AI/ML & Data Science Specialist · Technical Product Manager

I take AI products from research to production — from PHIPA-compliant clinical Generative AI platforms to enterprise ML systems delivering $2M in annual savings.

About

I'm Amir Zarie, a Toronto-based technologist with a PhD in Neuroscience from York University. I work at the intersection of AI engineering and product leadership — owning the full lifecycle of AI initiatives from prototype through compliance, launch, and scale.

As co-founder of PocketReport AI, I took a PHIPA-compliant Generative AI clinical reporting platform from prototype to production across 10 clinics, saving each practitioner roughly 8 hours of administrative work per week. At Telus, I architected an RNN/ARIMA anomaly detection system and re-engineered enterprise data pipelines that delivered $2M in annual savings.

Whether building RAG and agentic LLM architectures or translating between engineering teams and executives, I turn research-grade ideas into products that ship.

Education

  • PhD, Neuroscience York University · 2020–2026
  • MA, Neuroscience York University · 2018–2020
  • HBSc, Psychology York University · 2013–2018

Experience

  1. Skills Lab Coach — FDM Group Canada

    Jan 2026 – Present

    Coach cross-functional consultant pods through Agile, sprint-based delivery and hands-on AI/ML labs — designing RAG and agentic LLM reference implementations (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI) and tracking readiness KPIs with Power BI and Tableau dashboards.

  2. Co-founder & Technical Product Manager — PocketReport AI

    Apr 2025 – Dec 2025

    Owned the full lifecycle of a PHIPA-compliant Generative AI clinical reporting platform (Python, FastAPI, LangChain, FAISS) — secured $30k in early funding and scaled from prototype to production across 10 clinics, saving each practitioner ~8 hours of administrative work per week.

  3. Technical Founder — Skycorals Inc.

    May 2024 – Dec 2025

    Launched a data consultancy generating $35k in revenue — built custom predictive models and analytics pipelines for healthcare, fintech, and education clients, managing every engagement end to end.

  4. Data Scientist & Lead Cloud Developer — nDatalyze Inc.

    Jan 2025 – Jun 2025

    Led a multi-modal ML diagnostic pipeline (EEG, behavioral, genomic) to 90%+ precision, commercialized it as a React/FastAPI SaaS platform, and cut annual OpEx by $42k through GCP and PostgreSQL optimization.

  5. Data Science Intern — Telus Communications

    May 2024 – Dec 2024

    Architected a high-throughput Python/SQL anomaly detection system (RNN + ARIMA) for enterprise-scale real-time auditing, and delivered $2M in annual savings by re-engineering data pipelines and Looker dashboards.

Projects

  • Canada's Politics

    Full-stack Retrieval-Augmented Generation platform that aggregates, embeds, and indexes Canadian federal legislation, parliamentary debates, and proposed regulations.

    React · FastAPI · ChromaDB · Google Gemini

  • 7-bit News

    AI-based news aggregator featuring conversational search with interactive sentiment-analysis models and visualization pipelines.

    LangChain · NLP · Sentiment Analysis

  • ShipWise

    Secure, high-performance logistics platform — migrated to an Nginx infrastructure with auto-renewed SSL and optimized real-time API retrieval with smart caching.

    Nginx · SSL · API Optimization · Caching

Skills

Programming Languages

  • Python
  • SQL
  • C++
  • R
  • MATLAB
  • JavaScript

Machine Learning & AI

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • scikit-learn
  • Hugging Face
  • LLMs
  • NLP
  • Feature Engineering
  • Model Deployment

Agentic AI & RAG

  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • CrewAI
  • FAISS
  • ChromaDB
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Vector Databases

Data Engineering & Big Data

  • PySpark
  • Databricks
  • pandas
  • numpy
  • Data Preprocessing

BI & Visualization

  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • Looker Studio

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB

Cloud & DevOps

  • GCP
  • Docker
  • Git
  • Firebase

Web & Software Frameworks

  • FastAPI
  • React
  • Django
  • HTML
  • CSS

Product & Delivery

  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Jira
  • SDLC / ML Lifecycle
  • Roadmapping
  • Stakeholder Communication