Shayan Salehian
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShayan 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, RiversideBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian
Stackoverflow
149reputation
11kreached
3answers
6questions
Github Skills (22)
python-social-auth7
django-rest7
rest-framework7
apache-kafka6
django-rest-framework6
tensorflow6
oauth26
laravel6
tensorflow-estimator6
jquery6
python6
numpy6
django6
social-auth6
apache-spark6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shayan72/shayan72.github.io
May 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
shayan72/Courseware
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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