Alireza Mostafizi
Senior Solutions Engineer at Databricks
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolAlireza Mostafizi is a senior solutions engineer and data analytics leader with a decade of experience building cloud-native, big-data products that power location intelligence and population dynamics models. He has led teams and shipped end-to-end data platforms and ML-driven products—using AWS/GCP, Snowflake, BigQuery, Airflow, Python, and GIS—to deliver insights for millions of places and high-impact use cases like brand intelligence and city planning. His background blends rigorous academic research (PhD-level work on mobility and agent-based simulation) with product engineering, enabling him to translate complex spatial data into scalable pipelines and actionable visualizations. At Motionworks he architected core data systems and modeling workflows that supported Placecast™, and now applies that domain expertise at Databricks to optimize large-scale analytics. Beyond code, he brings a maker’s mindset—whether woodworking or prototyping new data solutions—that drives practical, well-crafted outcomes. Located in Honolulu, he combines quantitative depth with clear communication to bridge technical and executive audiences.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Transportation Engineering / Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Transportation Engineering / Computer Science at Oregon State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Civil Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
typescript10
user-interface10
declarative10
frontend10
react10
documentation8
jupyter-notebook6
behaviorspace6
latex6
amazon-emr6
pyspark6
amazon-web-services6
apache-spark6
netlogo6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
armostafizi/EvacuationModel
Feb 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 release, 63 commits, 11 pushes in 2 years 4 months
armostafizi/recipes
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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