Keyan Pishdadian
Engineering Manager at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKeyan Pishdadian is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and AI infrastructure, currently at Meta in Maine. He has led work on GPU-efficient AI training and online student/teacher model distillation, and briefly managed engineering for Meta Superintelligence Labs focusing on RL and agent infrastructure. Prior roles at Stripe, Lyft, Venmo and others show strong production engineering chops across payments, mobility, and platform teams. An active open-source contributor, he has improved widely used projects like Flask and Facebook's codemod—automating large-scale refactors with AST tools and adding practical usability and testing improvements. Trained with an MS in Computer Science and a BS in Microbiology, he brings a research-minded approach to engineering tradeoffs and automation.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science and Engineering, MS Computer Science and Engineering at University of WashingtonBS Microbiology, BS Microbiology at University of Vermont
English, Persian
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Github Skills (30)
python10
testing10
command-line-arguments10
flask-ask10
command-line-parser10
argument-parsing10
file-handling10
web-framework10
flask10
unit-testing9
refactor9
unit-test9
refactoring9
fileio8
file-operations8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/codemod
Jun 2015 - Aug 2017
Codemod is a tool/library to assist you with large-scale codebase refactors that can be partially automated but still require human oversight and occasional intervention. Codemod was developed at Facebook and released as open source.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 10 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Keyan primarily focused on improving the codebase's functionality and maintainability. They added new features like a `--default-no` flag and pattern matching with glob support, enhancing the tool's usability. The user also refactored and improved code, including the path filter function and related documentation, and bumped the version to 1.0. These changes indicate an effort to improve the code and address existing issues.
refactorscodemodrequirescalefacebook
pallets/flask
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
The Python micro framework for building web applications.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 16 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Keyan primarily focused on refactoring and migrating code within the Flask framework. Their work involved converting deprecated `flask.ext` imports to the newer format, using the RedBaron library for Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) manipulation to automate the process. Furthermore, the user added tests to ensure the correct import migration, encompassing various import styles and function calls. They also added tests to ensure that exception content appears in the response only when debugging.
micro-frameworkpythonweb-applicationspyramidjinja
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