Daniel Rashid
Founder at Picsaroni
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Rashid is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 14 years building large-scale distributed systems, machine learning pipelines, and consumer-facing services. After a decade-plus at Amazon leading teams across Alexa speech services, visual shopping, and HR technology, he now runs Picsaroni, a focused web hosting platform for photographers. His background spans research-grade NLP and MT from Carnegie Mellon to production Java systems at Squarespace and FactSet, giving him a rare mix of academic rigor and pragmatic engineering. Known for tech leadership and shipping reliable cloud services, he blends product thinking with hands-on implementation across backend, ML, and developer tooling. Based in Seattle, he quietly bridges research and product by turning complex language and vision problems into scalable, user-centered systems.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of WashingtonMS Language Technologies, MS Language Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (4)
xmpp1
chatbot1
bot-framework1
scala1
Github contributions (2)
haiyun-document/DistributedLogAnalyzer
Mar 2012 - Mar 2012
Contributions:15 commits in 6 days
charleso/Scala-XMPP-Bot
Aug 2011 - Sep 2011
Contributions:20 commits in 12 days
xmppxmpp-botbotscalachatbot
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