Zachariah Farahany

/ Quantitative ML · Interpretability · Agents

ZachariahFarahany

I build, deploy, and research production ML and agentic systems.

Now
Quantitative Analytics @ Wells Fargo
Focus
LLM interpretability · Credit-risk ML · Factor models
Studied
M.S. Applied Data Science, UChicago
Zachariah Farahany

Capabilities

01

Machine Learning

Credit-risk models shipped to production, with Bayesian tuning, validation, and segment-level error analysis.

02

Generative & Agentic AI

RAG systems, multi-tool agents, and MLLM evaluation, plus LLM interpretability research.

03

ML Operations

Automated deployment, testing, and monitoring of models on cloud infrastructure, with resource optimization and MLFlow-based management.

04

Big Data

Terabyte-scale ETL on Spark and medallion pipelines on AWS, taking raw telemetry through to production feature stores and warehouses.

Selected work

  1. 01
    Machine Learning

    Predicting COVID-19 Length of Stay

    Neural-network length-of-stay prediction on high-dimensional EHR data, and the basis of an IEEE Big Data conference paper.

    ANN · SMOTE · Bayesian Optimization
  2. 02
    Robotics

    SkySearch UAVs

    Open-source, multi-modal autonomous drone search with open-vocabulary target identification driven by multimodal LLMs. My MS thesis; 95% live-flight success.

    Python · Computer Vision · MLLM · DJI Tello
  3. 03
    Generative AI

    Chartwell Insurance Assistant

    A production RAG-powered email-automation assistant that answers Chartwell’s most frequent support questions.

    GPT-4 · Pinecone · RAG