Amir Rahnama, Ph.D

📍 Stockholm, Sweden
📞 +46 (72) 978 5012
✉️ amirrahnama@gmail.com
Languages: Swedish, English

Education

Ph.D., Machine Learning | 2019 — 2023
KTH Royal Institute of Technology · Stockholm

MSc., Information Technology | 2011 — 2014
University of Jyväskylä · Finland

BSc., Applied Mathematics | 2008 — 2011
Kharazmi University · Tehran, Iran

Work Experience

Senior Machine Learning Engineer | Oct 2025 — Now
All Ears AB (Sweden) · Stockholm, Sweden

Part of the Analytics team, optimizing speech recognition (ASR) and developing topic modeling and sentiment analysis over large-scale text and audio data from conversations mentioning brands/products across social media and news channels worldwide.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer | Oct 2024 — Aug 2025
Capgemini (Sweden) · Stockholm, Sweden

Member of the Generative AI and Analytics (GAIA) team; developed graph-based ML/AI and RAG solutions for fraud detection in payments.

Machine Learning Engineer | Jan 2023 — Sep 2024
KTH Royal Institute of Technology · Stockholm, Sweden

Built ML models and deployed them to the cloud using Docker. Examples include automated truck-part maintenance estimation (Scania), customized medication based on patient history (AstraZeneca), and evaluation of LLMs for complex reasoning tasks.

Machine Learning Research Intern | May 2020 — Sep 2020
Spotify · Stockholm, Sweden

Developed and deployed a TensorFlow Search & recommendation model for predicting relevant songs/podcasts on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with an emphasis on explainability.

Data Scientist & Team Lead (Consultant) | Oct 2015 — Oct 2018
Iteam Solutions AB · Stockholm, Sweden

Built data pipelines, reporting, data cleaning, and ML models deployed in product cloud. Examples: fair taxi fare estimation increasing retention by 20% (Taxi Stockholm) using TensorFlow/Scikit-Learn on GCP; clustering/categorization of unemployed individuals saving hundreds of hours weekly for case officers (TRR Trygghetsrådet) using PyTorch/Scikit-Learn on Azure.

Data Engineer and Scientist | Mar 2013 — Sep 2015
Gapminder · Stockholm, Sweden

Developed Python data pipelines and D3.js visualizations to tell data-driven stories about countries’ social development, deployed on Microsoft Azure. Tools: gapminder.org/tools.

Skill Matrix

Languages

  • Python ★★★★★
  • Node.js ★★★★☆

ML Frameworks

  • PyTorch ★★★★☆
  • HuggingFace Transformers ★★★★☆
  • Scikit-Learn ★★★★★
  • TensorFlow ★★★☆☆

Cloud & DevOps

  • Docker ★★★★☆
  • GCP ★★★★☆
  • Azure ★★★☆☆
  • AWS ★★★☆☆

Databases

  • PostgreSQL ★★★★☆
  • MongoDB ★★★☆☆