Daniyal ๐Ÿš€ Shahrokhian

Co-Founder

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain6 yrs 1 mo experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Decade of experience in robotics and process automation.
  • Led AI transformation in quality assurance at Insud Pharma.
  • Developed innovative Computer Vision solutions for retail.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned expert in AI-driven solutions for manufacturing and retail industries.

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Machine LearningProduct ManagementDeep LearningStart-upsArtificial IntelligenceSoftware Project ManagementData ScienceNatural Language Processing (NLP)Technology ManagementProduct RequirementsData VisualizationComputer VisionProduct DevelopmentProject ManagementSoftware Development

About

A decade in robotics and process automation. Signed contracts for cutting-edge technology, researched at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, and worked with MIT, UCL and TUM startups. Past teams were featured in TechCrunch, WIRED and Bloomberg. I love building. Github: github.com/dshahrokhian Youtube: youtube.com/@dshahrokhian Medium: medium.com/@dshahrokhian Random: ๐ŸŽฎ - Played as sniper for the national team (A.V.A. Spain) at ESL, IeSF and CGO. ๐ŸŽ’ - Digital Nomad in Southeast Asia and South America (cotravel.es/app/your-map/daniyal). ๐Ÿ’š - Health and fitness nerd (tracking macros, micronutrients, VO2max, sleep stages, body composition, etc.)

Experience

6 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
1 yr 4 mos
Average Tenure
8 mos
Current Experience

Sykah

Founder

Sep 2025 โ€“ Present ยท 8 mos ยท Madrid ยท On-site

  • If your team is overwhelmed by bureaucracy, let Sykah handle it. One SOP is all it takes for our digital workers to automate a process end-to-end. Helping teams stay lean and focus on what matters.

Insud pharma

2 roles

Senior Product Manager - AI Labs

Jan 2025 โ€“ Aug 2025 ยท 7 mos ยท Madrid ยท On-site

  • AI Transformation for Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement of Insud's factories. Released agentic products for handling a variety of human tasks.

Product Manager - AI Labs

Dec 2023 โ€“ Dec 2024 ยท 1 yr ยท Madrid ยท On-site

  • First hire from the newly appointed director, to launch AI Labs at Insud.
  • Recruited the first engineers and data scientists.
  • Taught ML across the company, doing use-discovery sessions with manufacturing, quality, regulatory, R&D, BI, and clinical trials teams.
  • Led the development of internal solutions based on Computer Vision and Generative models: visual inspection of pharma products; scientific literature search; regulatory document generation.

Checklens

Product Manager - Computer Vision in Retail

Sep 2021 โ€“ Sep 2023 ยท 2 yrs ยท Salzburg, Austria ยท On-site

  • Led the development of Checkscan: preventing fraud in retail stores with Computer Vision. Taking an MVP to a scalable product adopted by 100+ SCOs.
  • Working closely with engineers, data scientists and researchers, we released:
  • Object tracking and classification under heavy visual occlusions, with generalization across different product catalogues and stores.
  • KPIs, monitoring dashboards, and ML pipelines for finetunning.
  • Face anonymization for store customers and employees.
  • Non-scan identification: determine which products were not scanned, to support employees and allow customers to self-correct their mistakes.
  • API and its integration with a wide range of Point of Sale (PoS) providers.
  • Roll-out tools: software installer, hardware guides, camera FOV setup, etc.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for managing compute units across stores.
  • Coordinated pilots and roll-outs during our scale-up stage, and went personally to many of the stores to manage product installations, test performance and build customer relationships.
  • Led our Euroshop 2023 exhibition: planning, hardware, software, networking, and presenting demos.

Bumble

Data Scientist III - Natural Language Processing

Jan 2021 โ€“ Jan 2021 ยท 0 mo ยท Greater London

  • Built the app's first version of Multilingual Transformers (XLM-RoBERTa) to detect harmful messages, such as insults, threats, racism, and sexism. Also a prototype of profile similarity search in matchmaking based on FAISS metrics.
  • My manager and I could not get along tho.

Astroscreen

2 roles

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2019 โ€“ Jun 2020 ยท 11 mos ยท Hybrid

  • We failed to find PMF. Up until then, led a data science squad of 5.
  • Recruiting and tech interviews.
  • Detection of misinformation and botnets using GNNs and Transformers.
  • Productionization of models (Sagemaker, Docker), definition of data architecture and dataset versioning (AWS Lambda, PostgreSQL, DVC).
  • Stakeholder management and press coverage: presentations, results and visualizations.

Founding Engineer

Jan 2019 โ€“ Jun 2019 ยท 5 mos ยท Hybrid

  • Startup from UCL. First and, at times, only employee. Built the initial MVP for detecting botnets based on Gradient Boosting (fake account classification) and BERT (tweet similarity). Data crawling and monitoring using Selenium.

Various startups

Machine Learning Engineer

Sep 2017 โ€“ Apr 2019 ยท 1 yr 7 mos ยท Munich ยท On-site

  • Trayzi (later became Checklens): We built a fully automated checkout for IKEA. I did Computer Vision for plate detection, dish classification and portion estimation (mostly Tensorflow, training Retinanet and Resnet models). Also deployment in embedded devices via TF Serving and C++; Evals and Active Learning.
  • Corrux (acquired by Gropyus): I did failure prediction in factory machines based on Decision Trees and LSTMs.
  • Bleenco (MIT+TUM spin-off): I built an MVP on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) detection in factories. It landed us a contract with BASF, the largest chemical company in the world.

Rise research institutes of sweden

Research - Computer Vision

Jan 2017 โ€“ Dec 2017 ยท 11 mos ยท Stockholm, Sweden ยท On-site

  • Swedish Institute of Computer Science: Decisions, Networks and Analytics (DNA) Lab.
  • Research on Constrained Local Neural Fields and LSTMs for face behavioural analysis.

Chapsvision cybergov

Software Engineer Intern

Feb 2015 โ€“ Jul 2015 ยท 5 mos ยท Madrid Area, Spain ยท On-site

  • Worked on Data Architecture in collaboration with the Spanish Government. We built the very first Smart City Platform for Madrid & Barcelona.
  • ETLs, Hadoop, Java, Maven, Jenkins.

Telefonica innovation

Software Engineer Intern

Sep 2014 โ€“ Feb 2015 ยท 5 mos ยท Madrid Area, Spain ยท On-site

  • Worked on the development of Telefonica's private cloud, mostly in OpenStack.

Education

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Master of Science - MS โ€” Data Science

Universidad Politรฉcnica de Madrid

Bachelor of Engineering - BE โ€” Computer Science and Engineering

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Visiting Student โ€” Innovation and Technology Management

Eindhoven University of Technology

Master's degree โ€” Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies (Minor)

University of Patras

Summer School โ€” Human Computer Interaction

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