Rashid Lasker
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRashid Lasker is a Member of Technical Staff based in San Francisco with 10 years of software engineering experience focused on building production-ready systems and AI tooling. He has driven high-impact projects at Scale AI—leading generative-AI labeling interfaces and pipeline migrations that dramatically reduced consistency errors—and served as a founding engineer at an AI-native observability startup. Rashid blends full-stack product sensibility with data-driven rigor, owning data quality operations for strategic customers like Microsoft and OpenAI and designing novel labeling systems for MOS ranking, e-commerce, and audio transcription. His background includes systems work in C++/gRPC for 3D map history at Uber and teaching large-scale internet applications and computer architecture at UVA, highlighting both practical engineering and mentorship. Now at xAI, he continues to bridge research-grade models and production pipelines, with a knack for turning messy data workflows into auditable, scalable products.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBachelor’s Degree Computer Science & Cognitive Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science & Cognitive Science at University of Virginia
French, Bengali, English
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Github Skills (42)
posenet10
open-source10
javascript9
tensorflowjs9
twilio9
internet9
portal9
absolute8
mechanical-turk8
flask8
scale8
ccr8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rashidlasker/rashidlasker.github.io
Nov 2017 - Jul 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 43 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 8 months
DanielWillson/hackcville-5
Jul 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:8 PRs, 2 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 10 months
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