Alex Kashi
Staff Software Engineer at Lucid Motors
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Kashi is a Staff Software Engineer and machine learning researcher with 11 years of experience building production-grade mobile apps, scalable backends, and ML models across startups, academia, and enterprise. He holds an MS in Computational Science & Engineering from Harvard with an AI focus and a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley, and has published and shipped research ranging from RNA structure prediction to clinical classifiers. At Lucid Motors he led rebuild of the native iOS app in SwiftUI, shipping ahead of schedule and measurably improving App Store ratings, and previously founded Spur, a social app that reached 350k+ downloads while he architected its AWS microservices and DevOps pipeline. His work blends hands-on firmware and low-level systems experience from Intel with deep learning and computer vision research at Stanford and Harvard Medical School, enabling pragmatic ML solutions that bridge research and product. Known for identifying high-leverage optimizations—like a 94% compute reduction in cell segmentation pipelines—he excels at aligning multidisciplinary teams to deliver user-facing features and publishable research. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines startup founder instincts with academic rigor to move ambitious AI-driven products from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at University of California, BerkeleyCross Registered Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Cross Registered Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), Master of Science - MS Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) at Harvard UniversityCross Registered Business Administration and Management General, Cross Registered Business Administration and Management General at Harvard Business School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (69)
react-snap10
serverless10
javascript10
snap10
resume10
router10
react-router10
webpack10
aws-sdk-android10
react10
amazon-web-services9
aws-sdk9
api8
sdk8
lambda-functions8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AlexKashi/personal-site
May 2022 - Mar 2025
My personal website - built with React, React-Router, React-Snap for Static-Export, and GitHub Pages.
Contributions:14 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 years 10 months
reactbuilt-with-reactexportsnapreact-router
tasilb/FlyingCourier
Nov 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
payloadquadcopternavigation
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