Faraz Shamshirdar
Senior Machine Learning Engineer II at Instacart
Canada
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Top SchoolFaraz Shamshirdar is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience bridging research and production across computer vision, robotics, and consumer mobile products. He co-founded Quiz of Kings, Iran’s most popular mobile game with over 12 million users, then transitioned to academic and industrial ML work in Canada, earning an MS from Simon Fraser University and publishing applied vision and navigation solutions. His career spans roles at Huawei, Zippin, and Instacart where he has driven human-centric ML research—sign language translation, few-shot segmentation, pose estimation—and deployed perception and navigation systems for robotics and retail. Faraz combines founder grit and product-first engineering with deep research instincts, often translating novel algorithms into reliable, real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Amirkabir University of TechnologyDiploma Mathematics, Diploma Mathematics at Alborz HighschoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Persian
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Github Skills (58)
recurrent10
simulator10
recurrent-neural-networks10
unreal10
visual-odometry10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
airsim10
platform-independent10
robotics9
simulation9
deterministic9
yield9
control-systems9
computer-vision9
cross-platform8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fshamshirdar/gym-airsim
Nov 2017 - Nov 2019
OpenAI Gym environment for AirSim
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years
airsimreinforcement-learninggym-environmentopenaigym
fshamshirdar/khodcoder
Sep 2016 - Nov 2019
Implementing Genetic Programming in CPP
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
geneticcppgenetic-programming
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