Behzad Vahedi
Software Engineer, Bellwether (employed By Magnit) at X, the moonshot factory
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolBehzad Vahedi is an applied machine learning scientist and software engineer with eight years of experience solving spatial and temporal problems using deep learning, remote sensing, and climate AI. He holds a PhD in Geography from CU Boulder and has published in journals like Nature Communications, blending rigorous research with production-focused engineering at organizations including X (the moonshot factory) and Magnit/Bellwether. His work spans satellite image classification, semantic segmentation, and time-series forecasting (notably COVID-19 and extreme climate events), and he has built CI/CD pipelines and near-real-time fire perimeter tools to accelerate disaster response. Based in Boulder, he combines academic teaching and lab design with hands-on DevOps and data-fusion system development, making him effective at moving models from prototype to operational use. An underappreciated strength is his track record of translating geospatial research into deployable software for real-world decision support.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Geospatial Information Systems Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Geospatial Information Systems Engineering at K. N. Toosi University of TechnologyMaster of Arts - MA GIScience, Master of Arts - MA GIScience at UC Santa BarbaraDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Geography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Geography at University of Colorado Boulder
English, Persian
Github Skills (27)
forecasts8
bootstrapping8
data-access7
standardized6
visualization6
atmospheric-modelling5
particle4
analytics4
fluid-simulation4
smoothed-particle-hydrodynamics4
github-pages4
python3
opencl3
hydrodynamics3
cython3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
behzad-vahedi/behzad-vahedi.github.io
Feb 2022 - Jun 2024
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:27 pushes in 2 years 4 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
behzad-vahedi/GauchoSafe
Nov 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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