Zahra Shamsi
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolZahra Shamsi is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with 11 years of experience bridging cutting-edge AI research and production software. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from UIUC and has a strong research pedigree in reinforcement learning, molecular dynamics, Markov state models, and protein dynamics that she brings to large-scale ML systems. At Google she progressed from AI Resident to Research Software Engineer and now to Senior SWE, translating novel algorithms into reliable, deployable code. Based in Mountain View, she combines deep theoretical expertise with practical engineering—often working at the intersection of computational biology and scalable ML—which enables her to tackle problems that demand both rigorous modeling and production-grade implementation. An early background in control theory and process dynamics gives her a unique systems perspective that informs how she designs robust, interpretable models.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Middle and High School, Middle and High School at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents SchoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science (BS), Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
Persian, English, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic
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Github Skills (6)
docking7
systems-biology7
computational-biology7
structural-biology6
dynamics5
statistical-models5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zshamsi2/General-MD-Codes
Sep 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:148 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
ShuklaGroup/Kinases
Jun 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 137 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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