Farzad Nobar

Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Coinbase working on applied AI systems and automation. Previously, Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, where I built production NLP, post-training, and evaluation systems.

I also independently build native software for Apple platforms.

Farzad Nobar

About

I work across problem definition, experimentation, evaluation, system architecture, and production deployment. My recent work has focused on agentic systems, multilingual NLP, machine translation, model quality, and automated evaluation.

Based in Seattle. Outside work, I enjoy skiing, snowboarding and running.

Research and applied work

Agentic systems for compliance investigations

Enabling the automation of manual compliance investigations with agentic systems. My work spans stakeholder discovery, architecture selection, implementation, and evaluation with the rest of the engineering team.

Automated post-training and deployment

Built an automated, multi-task post-training workflow for multilingual NLP that combined data preparation, source-mix and dataset-size optimization, Bayesian hyperparameter optimization, standardized evaluation, and human-gated deployment. It reduced model delivery time from months to days and enabled the organization’s custom models to reach production.

Automated evaluation and launch gates

Built an automated, layered evaluation system spanning quantitative model comparison, categorical issue classification, and descriptive retrieval-augmented LLM-as-judge analysis. It reduced evaluation time from weeks to minutes.

Domain-adapted multilingual machine translation

Built and deployed domain-adapted seq2seq and Transformer models that improved translation quality over generic baselines and served production traffic for years.

Independent work

Overview with a synthetic library of 148,987 messages and a visual comparison of the longest conversations.
Life in Messages app icon, a speech bubble containing three rising analytics bars.

Life in Messages

A private Mac app for exploring the people, groups, and patterns in your Messages history.

Family Atlas family tree beside an iPhone person record.
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Family Atlas

A local-first family-history app built around detailed personal records and flexible, interactive family trees.

Family Folio recipe library and recipe detail views shown side by side.
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Family Folio

An iPhone recipe app for keeping ingredients, instructions, notes, and photos together in one organized library.

Experience

Coinbase

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Agentic systems and compliance automation.

Amazon

Senior Applied Scientist, NLP

Production NLP, multilingual machine translation, post-training, and evaluation.

Education