Shiraz Hazrat
Senior Vice President Of R&D at SpotGenius
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolShiraz Hazrat is a senior technology leader and engineer with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native, AI-driven systems from data centers to serverless ML platforms. Currently Senior Vice President of R&D at SpotGenius after serving as its CTO, he designs vision AI pipelines that span camera hardware, video transmission, cloud processing, and real-time analytics. Previously he led global site reliability teams at Domino Data Lab, managing thousands of servers and hundreds of Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud and hybrid environments to minimize outages and scale ML workloads. His background includes designing ML-powered algorithmic trading systems, hands-on SRE tooling in Python/Terraform, and early career work deploying Google data center infrastructure. Based in Chicago, he combines rigorous physics training with practical systems engineering—an unusual mix that helps him translate research-grade ideas into production-grade services. Colleagues often rely on him for pragmatic incident leadership and for bridging hardware, software, and ML teams to deliver robust, real-time products.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (7)
face-detection8
face-recognition8
python7
api7
python-bindings6
machine-learning6
facial-recognition5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
shazrat/cryptocurrency-trading-modules
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
shazrat/flatten_json
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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