Summary
Taite Nazifi is a Staff Software Engineer and founder with eight years of experience building resilient distributed systems, observability platforms, and AI tooling. He currently focuses on distributed storage and LLM training while leading engineering at Bishop Fox and running Zifi Labs to help Fortune 100s with backend and observability challenges. His background spans founding startups, shipping production-grade distributed query and storage optimizations at Datadog, and delivering ML-driven revenue integrity work that materially saved clients millions. Comfortable from infrastructure and cloud orchestration to ML features, he has a track record of turning early ideas into scalable, fault-tolerant products and even single-handedly halving latencies through topology and affinity optimizations. Based in Tucson, AZ, he blends product-minded engineering with startup grit and a knack for pragmatic, performance-first systems design.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Management Information Systems, Master of Science - MS, Management Information Systems at University of Arizona, Eller College of Management
The University of Arizona
French, Persian, Spanish