Shabaz Patel
Director (Distinguished AI Engineer) - AI Search And Discovery at Best Buy
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolShabaz Patel is a Director and distinguished AI engineer with a decade of experience building scalable ML systems and leading AI-powered search and discovery for millions of users at Best Buy. He combines hands-on engineering—having co-founded Datmo and built production ML platforms and hybrid search engines—with senior leadership experience running data science teams and shipping product lines at One Concern. Shabaz authored Shipping Machine Learning Systems, reflecting his focus on operationalizing models end-to-end, and he advises startups like Fabi.ai on making data insights accessible. Known for pragmatic, early-stage project leadership, he blends research-rooted technical depth from Stanford and IIT Hyderabad with a track record of measurable business impact, including high-throughput, low-latency search and LLM-driven testing tooling.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering and Minor in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Minor in Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology HyderabadMaster of Science (M.S.) Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Urdu, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (54)
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version-control10
artificial-intelligence9
gpu9
deep-learning9
numpy8
gradient8
neural-network8
portable8
data-science8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
datmo/datmo-tutorials
May 2018 - Jan 2019
Tutorials and training material for the Datmo Platform
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 8 months
training-materialdatmotraining
datmo/docker-files
Mar 2017 - Jan 2019
Dockerfiles for setting up environments
Contributions:84 commits, 19 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 year 10 months
dockerfilesdockerenvironmentssetting
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