Barzan Mozafari
Associate Professor
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBarzan Mozafari is a serial entrepreneur, researcher, and professor who has spent 13+ years designing statistical and machine-learning techniques to make data-intensive systems faster, more scalable, and easier to use. As CEO and co-founder of Keebo he builds turn-key data learning platforms to automate and accelerate enterprise analytics while continuing to direct research and teach as an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan. His industry experience spans startups and large organizations, including architect/advisor work on SnappyData (acquired by TIBCO) and research roles at Microsoft and Yahoo, giving him a rare blend of academic rigor and product-focused engineering. He specializes in practical approximate query processing and predictable, robust data systems—areas where he has repeatedly translated research into production-ready technology. Based in Ann Arbor, he pairs deep systems expertise from MIT and UCLA with entrepreneurial grit to drive measurable business impact. Colleagues often note his knack for turning complex statistical ideas into deceptively simple, usable tooling.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (21)
approximate9
postgresql7
mysql7
amazon-web-services7
rdbms7
relational-databases7
database7
galera6
geographical-information-system5
mysql-server5
json5
storage-engine4
sql4
nearest-neighbor-search4
variance3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
barzan/dbseer
Jun 2013 - Jun 2015
DBSeer
Contributions:17 commits, 6 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 1 month
postgresqldatabasemysql
keebo-ai/cliffguard
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
WorkloadMiner + CliffGuard (Robust Physical Designer for Databases)
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
designerdockerphysicaldatabases
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