Zamir Syed is a Principal Engineer and Director based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of experience building large-scale network planning, optimization, and risk systems at Google. He blends deep mathematical training (BS/MS/PhD-level work in mathematics) with hands-on engineering leadership, having led cross-disciplinary teams that span distributed systems, optimization, forecasting, and supply-chain style data pipelines. Previously he scaled engineering organizations in finance and high-frequency trading, bringing quantitative rigor and HFT-inspired techniques to web-scale systems and Go advocacy. Known for turning complex, planet-scale networking problems into pragmatic software solutions, he favors short, incisive design discussions and a culture that treats innovation as the default. Though most of his code lives in private repos, his career is defined by shipping robust production systems that bridge research-grade models and operational reliability.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS MS PhD Mathematics, BS MS PhD Mathematics at University of Illinois Chicago
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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Zamir Syed - Principal Engineer Director at Google