Shahrzad Rizvi
Solutions Engineer at OpenGov Inc.
Plano, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolShahrzad Rizvi is a solutions engineer and civic innovator with over 15 years of experience modernizing municipal, county, and state government finance and policy operations. She blends deep budgetary expertise—having managed multi-hundred-million-dollar operating and capital portfolios—with a passion for open data, digital government, and process improvement. Known as an "intrapreneur," she translates complex fiscal and legal concepts into accessible public-facing reporting and trains leaders to adopt data-driven budgeting. Her background includes administering cloud-based budget systems and leading emergency grant tracking for disaster response, reflecting a practical focus on resilience and compliance. Based in Plano, Texas, she pairs public-sector rigor with a maker’s mindset and a knack for turning transparency initiatives into usable tools.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelors of Science, Social Sciences - Law and Society, Bachelors of Science, Social Sciences - Law and Society at Michigan Technological UniversityMaster of Public Administration (M.P.A.), Public Administration, Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.), Public Administration at University of North Texas
Github Skills (12)
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open-data9
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autopilot6
perception5
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autonomous-vehicles4
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sunlightlabs/opendatapoliciesdecoded
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:60 commits, 47 pushes, 4 issues in 9 days
policyopen-data
sunlightpolicy/opendata
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Another home for the Sunlight Foundation's Open Data Policy research.
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 1 month
policyfoundationsunlightopen-dataresearch-policy
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