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Mohammad Mehdi Lotfinejad is an accomplished Chief Data Officer with a profound expertise in data science and engineering, amassing over ten years of experience in developing data processing pipelines for enterprise insights. He is a proven leader with exceptional communication, presentation, and leadership skills, certified as an HRDF trainer with more than 15 years of experience as a computer science instructor both in academia and as a professional data science/engineering trainer in the industry. His academic credentials include a PhD in Computer Science from Universiti Malaya, Malaysia, and he holds certifications from Harvard Business School in Business Analytics. Mohammad specializes in cutting-edge technologies such as Apache Spark, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, Redshift, Apache Airflow, API and Microservices, and Amazon Web Services. Currently serving as the Chief Data and Knowledge Officer at Magna.ai since February 2024, Mohammad leads the development of graph databases and data warehouses to support AI-driven law case analysis services. He architects robust API and microservice solutions to enhance system interoperability and scalability while ensuring data security and compliance with legal standards. Prior to this role, he has been contributing his expertise as a Senior Data Engineer at AXIATA Digital Advertising (ADA) since March 2020. Here, he collaborates on designing automated data pipelines using AWS RedShift and Snowflake for storing telco data and implements BI dashboards leveraging Google BigQuery. From June 2018 to February 2020, Mohammad was the Lead Senior Data Scientist Professional Trainer at The Center of Applied Data Science in Kuala Lumpur. He led teams of data scientists and engineers to design professional training programs for prominent clients like CIMB, PETRONAS, SHELL, and TNB. His earlier roles include leading big data engineering teams at RAHA in Iran where he developed large-scale analytics pipelines using Hadoop Ecosystem tools like Hive and Spark. In academia, Mohammad served as a faculty member at Payame Noor University from September 2014 to June 2018 where he supervised graduate research projects and contributed significantly to curriculum development. His tenure also includes leadership positions at Islamic Azad University where he managed departments to achieve high academic standards. With technical proficiencies spanning RDBMS like MySQL and PostgreSQL to programming languages such as Python and C++, Mohammad is adept at web design using HTML/CSS/Bootstrap alongside project management skills including Scrum Master certification. His published works include books on Object-Oriented Programming and Project Management Fundamentals along with numerous journal articles on topics ranging from solar radiation prediction models to machine learning algorithms for intrusion detection systems.