Summary
Shayan Salehian is a seasoned machine learning engineer and technical leader with a decade of experience building scalable ML-powered systems. He currently serves as a Member Of Technical Staff at xAI, leading teams to deliver core product ML models, data pipelines, and online services for X (formerly Twitter), focusing on improving timeline relevance, user engagement, and personalization. Earlier roles include Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter (2018–2022) and Staff Machine Learning Engineer at X (2022–2024), where he steered cross-disciplinary teams of ML engineers, software engineers, and site reliability engineers. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from UC Riverside and a BS in Computer Software Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and is based in San Francisco. A passionate entrepreneur and full-stack developer, he combines hands-on coding across Python, Scala, Java, JavaScript, and modern ML stacks with product thinking to turn ideas into impactful, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian