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Amit Moran

Commander · DISC type D
Data and ML Engineering Manager - Risk and Fraud at Shopify
📍 United States

Amit Moran is a senior data and AI executive at Shopify, specializing in machine learning for fraud detection, credit decisioning, and risk management in regulated environments. With an M. Sc. from Tel Aviv University, he excels at building high-performing data teams in both startups and enterprises. Colleagues describe him as talented, creative, and possessing clear management capabilities.

He holds a patent for a system providing social network recommendations based on explicit user similarity.

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Experience
26 Years
Current Role
Data and ML Engineering Manager - Risk and Fraud
Job Level
Middle
Location
United States
Personality Overview

How Amit shows up

Risk-Taker
Decisive
Very Quick

They put a lot of effort into ensuring personal success. They prefer to move quickly, and expect the same from others. They do not care very much about building rapport or relationships.

Priorities

Topics Amit cares about

ML in FinTech
Leads teams architecting and deploying ML systems for fraud, credit, and risk in regulated financial environments at companies like Shopify and Bluevine.
Building Data Teams
He spoke at Data Science Salon NYC about building robust data organizations and consistently posts about hiring for his high-performing data science teams.
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Career

Work history

8-2025
Data and ML Engineering Manager - Risk and Fraud
Shopify
11-2020 - 7-2025
VP Data and Machine Learning
Bluevine
4-2016 - 11-2020
Senior Director, Data Science and Engineering
Oracle
1-2014 - 4-2016
Chief Data Scientist
Crosswise Ltd.
9-2012 - 12-2013
Senior R&D
Sears Israel (Delver)
In the press

Media appearances

Amit Moran - Data And ML Engineering Manager - Risk And Fraud at Shopify | The Org. Featured in The Org
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Education
1999 - 2007
M.Sc
Tel Aviv University
2009 - 2010
MBA
The College of Management Academic Studies
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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