Dara Kharabi
Practice Lead, Data And AI
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDara Kharabi is a technical leader and Practice Lead for Data & AI with 15 years of experience and over 9 years focused on delivering data, analytics, and cybersecurity solutions across Financial Services, Life Sciences, eCommerce, Healthcare, and Insurance. Currently leading Rearc’s Data & AI practice, Dara combines product leadership—having managed a portfolio of 400+ data products—with hands-on engineering in areas like agentic AI, security lakehouses, and data clean rooms. He excels in ambiguous, fast-evolving environments and has repeatedly translated complex domain needs into revenue-driving platforms and capabilities. Early interests in game development and a physics background give him a systems-minded approach to problem solving and product design. Dara’s career blends consulting depth from boutique engagements with enterprise-scale delivery, and he’s known for wearing many hats—from ML and NLP work to platform and BI engineering.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at The College of William and Mary
English, Persian, Spanish
Github Skills (45)
quest10
crossword9
dm9
heroku9
buildpack9
steam9
docker8
dokku8
aws-data-exchange8
devops8
kubernetes7
qt-widgets7
image-viewer7
dotnet7
paas7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rearc-data/quest
Sep 2021 - Jul 2025
A data quest
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 10 months
crosswordquestdm
sharkduino/sharkduino_R_analysis
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:52 pushes, 12 comments, 17 issues in 11 months
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