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

Messages Analytics overview showing conversation totals, highlights, standouts, and shared-item counts.
Messages Analytics app icon, a speech bubble containing three rising analytics bars.

Messages Analytics

A privacy-first macOS app that turns Messages history into local analytics while keeping the analysis on the user’s Mac.

Family Atlas family tree beside an iPhone person record.
Family Atlas app icon, a black branching tree on white.

Family Atlas

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

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