Reza Shabani
Co-Founder at Stealth
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolReza Shabani is a San Francisco–based AI and software leader with a decade of experience building production ML systems and founding startups. As co-founder of his current stealth venture and formerly Senior Engineering Manager at Replit, he founded the AI & Data team and shipped Ghostwriter products while open-sourcing replit-code-v1-3b, a Llama-style code model. His background spans quantitative research and systematic investing at Wellington and BlackRock, where he built widely used data platforms and applied NLP and ML to financial problems. Reza pairs PhD-level economics training with hands-on engineering—designing data infrastructure, training models, and shipping developer-focused tools at scale. He combines entrepreneurial instincts from his earlier Shopsync startup with deep expertise in bringing research-grade ML into robust production services.
3 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
retrieval10
llm9
machine-learning9
sqlalchemy9
sql7
python7
pydantic6
database6
api6
fastapi6
sentence-transformers3
devops2
code-behind1
data-engineering1
replit1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lexy-ai/lexy
Jul 2024 - Jul 2024
Data pipelines for AI applications
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 11 PRs in 10 days
agentsaidatadata-engineeringdeveloper-tools
shabani1/shabani1
Jul 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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