Zuhair Khayyat
Co-founder And Chief Technology Officer at Lucidya
Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
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Top SchoolZuhair Khayyat is a CTO and co-founder with 12 years of experience building scalable AI and big-data platforms, leading Lucidya from an MVP to a fault-tolerant production system. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from KAUST, authored a book on graph processing, published in top venues like EuroSys, VLDB and SIGMOD, and holds a patent stemming from his research. His background spans R&D at IBM T.J. Watson and applied roles at SABIC and Aramco, giving him a rare mix of academic rigor and enterprise-grade engineering. Based in Riyadh, he combines hands-on systems design with strategic product leadership to turn complex data challenges into operational analytics solutions. An exchange at Rose-Hulman and early work on distributed data cleaning hint at a long-standing focus on large-scale, real-world data problems.
12 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)B.S Computer Engineering, B.S Computer Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
English, Arabic
Github Skills (13)
data-platform6
data-processing5
stream-processing3
big-data3
cross-platform3
data-integration2
python1
ipython1
data-cleaning1
jupyter1
java1
data-science1
kernel1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
khayyatzy/datasciencecoursera
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
sakrsherif/GiraphBookText
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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