Summary
Farzaan Kaiyom is a software engineer with eight years of experience building AI-driven systems for logistics and enterprise applications, currently working at Corridor after co-founding Vooma to commercialize AI workforces for freight customers like Echo, MoLo, and NFI. He combines startup grit (founding roles at Vooma, Nourish, and Gradia Health) with rigorous research chops from a Stanford MS and a research engineer role at Stanford’s Center for Research on Foundation Models, where he contributed to HELM and published at ICLR 2025. His background spans machine learning engineering and graph neural network research (IBM internship) through to product-focused ML roles at PayJoy, enabling him to ship both research and production systems. Based in Palo Alto, he blends hands-on engineering, academic insight, and go-to-market experience to bridge models and real-world logistics workflows. A detail that underscores his practical focus: he has repeatedly moved from prototype research to customer deployments in regulated, operationally intensive domains.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University