Pardis Noorzad

Founder | General Folders
Data and AI leader

Professional Summary

Founder and CEO of General Folders, a Techstars-backed company pioneering secure data exchange solutions for enterprises. Expert in building data organizations from the ground up (Twitter and Carbon Health), scaling ML systems to millions of users (Twitter and Paytm), and leading technical teams (General Folders, Twitter, Carbon Health). Background spans healthcare, retail, fintech, adtech, and social media backed by degrees in software engineering, mathematics, and AI.

Experience

Founder & CEO • General Folders

San Francisco, CA & San Diego, CA | 2022 - Present

• Raised pre-seed, built a distributed team of 17, and joined Techstars SDSU
• Built gfv1.0, offering cross-company data transfer services
• Launched The Data Room App for simple and secure fundraising

Chief Data Officer • Carbon Health

San Francisco, CA | 2019 - 2021

• Built the data function of 10
• Architected company-wide data infrastructure scaling to 2.5K employees
• Led data strategy and implementation across Finance, Engineering, Product, Partnerships, Marketing, Clinic Operations, Support, and Real Estate

Data Science Lead and Manager • Twitter

San Francisco, CA | 2016 - 2019

• Built a team of 10 distributed across SF and NYC
• Shipped features and fixed major bugs in Search, Trends, Events, Recommendations, and Notifications
• Won #Hackweek and #TweetTank company-wide competitions

ML Engineer • Paytm

Toronto, ON | 2015 - 2016

• Shipped the first fully automated fraud detection system scaling to 100M+ users
• Built a promotion and product recommendation system
• Lead Paytm Noida’s Hive to Spark migration efforts in Databricks/AWS

Data Scientist • Rubikloud

Toronto, ON | 2014 - 2015

• Joined at pre-seed, first data/engineering hire
• Shipped a promotion optimization system for multi-channel retailers
• Built anomaly detection, search trend detection, and recommendation systems

Education

MSc Applied Mathematics • Ryerson University

• RA for random graph models of online social networks with Anthony Bonato at the Graphs@Ryerson Lab
• TA for Discrete Mathematics, Automata Theory, Linear Algebra, and Calculus, 3 semesters each
• Grad Student Representative on the Ryerson Senate

MSc Artificial Intelligence • Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT)

• RA for classification in high-dimensional problems with Mohammad Rahmati at the Pattern Recognition Lab at AUT
• RA for sparse classifiers and music genre recognition with Bob L. Sturm at Aalborg University Copenhagen
• RA for large-scale image classification with Mehrdad Shahshahani at Sharif and IPM

BSc Software Engineering • University of Tehran

• Summer School in Logic with Jeremy Avigad at CMU
• RA for Transfer Learning in RL with Majid Nili at the Robotics & AI Lab
• RA for automatic verification of composed web services using constraint automata with Marjan Sirjani at the Formal Methods Lab
• TA for Data Structures and Algorithms, 3 semesters
• ECE Student Representative, 3 years
• ACM Student Chapter Vice Chair, 3 years

Contact

Website: djpardis.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/djpardis
Email: pardis@generalfolders.com