Vahed Qazvinian
Co-Founder at Praisidio, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVahed Qazvinian is a computer scientist and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building ML-driven products and startups from research to market. He co-founded Praisidio, delivering instant people analytics, and previously co-founded Lawyaw (YC W'18), which was acquired by Clio after modernizing document drafting for law firms. Earlier he was a senior software engineer at Google’s Search Quality team, where he led development of automated query-model training platforms and semantic parsers that scaled hundreds of new answer types across international queries. Trained as a PhD researcher at the University of Michigan, he blends deep NLP and ML research—published work on social media semantics and citation analysis—with pragmatic engineering that drives product velocity. Colleagues would note his uncommon ability to transition academic innovations into production-grade systems and repeat that success as a founder.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering at University of MichiganB.Sc. Computer Engineering (Software), B.Sc. Computer Engineering (Software) at Sharif University of Technology
Persian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, English
Github Skills (72)
azure9
jira9
api8
api-client7
microsoft-azure7
chat7
matrix7
espn7
salesforce7
python7
bamboo7
microsoft7
xai7
interpretable-machine-learning7
lime6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vahedq/rumors
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:30 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
praisidio/jira
Jun 2021 - Jan 2025
Python Jira library. Development chat available on https://web.libera.chat/?channel=#pycontribs
Contributions:5 reviews, 11 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 7 months
chatpythonjiralibrary-development
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