Amir Yahyavi
Director Of Engineering - Data AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAmir Yahyavi is a seasoned engineering leader who builds and scales data and AI platforms for security products used by thousands of enterprises worldwide. Currently Sr Director of Engineering at Zscaler, he has led teams owning cloud infrastructure, petabyte-scale data lakes, ETL, analytics, ML, and user-facing visualizations that process up to a trillion events per day. He co-founded xSeer (now part of Palo Alto Networks) and helped commercialize EVA, a browser-based visual analytics engine capable of ingesting billions of points via massively parallel computation. A PhD-trained researcher with postdoctoral work at Carnegie Mellon, Amir blends academic rigor—his research has 300+ citations—with hands-on product delivery and rapid team growth. He repeatedly converts research prototypes into mission-critical, productized systems (e.g., Prisma Access Insights and modernized log viewers) and is comfortable operating across infra, backend, data engineering, and frontend layers. Based in the Bay Area, he combines startup founder instincts with enterprise-scale operational experience to drive high-throughput, secure analytics platforms.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Amirkabir University of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at University of TehranPost-Doctoral Researcher Computer Science, Post-Doctoral Researcher Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at McGill University
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Github Skills (130)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yahyavi/dotfiles
Dec 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:142 pushes in 8 years 4 months
macosdefaultssensiblewrench
yahyavi/linux-setup
Mar 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:14 pushes in 1 year 3 months
environment-setupnodejsaws
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