Faizon Zaman
Lead Lexical Programmer at Wolfram|Alpha LLC
Village of Pittsford, New York, United States
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Top SchoolFaizon Zaman is a Lead Lexical Programmer at Wolfram|Alpha with eight years of experience building linguistics and natural language systems that map entity-property queries into the Wolfram Knowledgebase. Trained in cognitive science with complementary studies in computer science and audio production, he blends linguistic insight, prompt engineering, and hands-on development to improve educational content and NL understanding. A regular mentor and TA in Wolfram’s summer programs, he has guided student projects on LLM illocutionary understanding, emergent agent behavior, and multimodal reconstruction—hinting at a comfort working at the intersection of language, art, and code. Based in Pittsford, NY, Faizon also pursues AV art and personal knowledge management practices, bringing a creative, interdisciplinary sensibility to technical problems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Cognitive Science at State University of New York College at OswegoTechnology and Innovation Track, Technology and Innovation Track at Wolfram Summer SchoolAssociate's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Associate's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Monroe Community College
English, French, Urdu
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Github Skills (45)
mathematica10
wolfram-mathematica10
wolfram-language10
lexer9
electron9
linguistics9
pattern-matching9
typescript9
parser9
vscode9
text-mining9
text-search8
prefix8
editor8
visual-studio8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dishmint/ArcanePropagation
May 2022 - Feb 2025
Exploring image convolution and fragment shaders.
Contributions:54 PRs, 128 pushes, 65 branches in 2 years 9 months
webglfragmentshadersconvolutionmaxmsp
dishmint/Markdown2WL
Oct 2019 - Feb 2023
Lex and Parse Markdown in Wolfram Language
Contributions:75 commits, 18 PRs, 113 pushes in 3 years 3 months
exportstandalonemathematicawolframparser-generator
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