# Faiaz Rahman

> Senior Software Engineer @ Meta | CS @ Yale, Prev @ Apple

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/faiaz

Senior software engineer interested in privacy-aware AI infrastructure, backend infrastructure, and applied natural language processing.

• Yale, Computer Science — Summa Cum Laude with Distinction
• Software Engineer at Meta (IC3 → IC4 → IC5)
• Machine Learning Engineer Intern at Apple
• Co-President of Yale Machine Learning
• Research Assistant in Dr. Dragomir Radev's Natural Language Processing Lab at Yale (published in ACL, NAACL)

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2025 – Present | Menlo Park, California
Wearables AI Infrastructure

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Menlo Park, California
Privacy Infrastructure
• Only individual in 82-person org to receive highest-possible performance rating of “Redefined Expectations” in 2023; again in 2024.

### Machine Learning Engineer Intern @ Apple
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Cupertino, California
Siri: Natural Language Understanding
• Developed NLU and generative models in TensorFlow to improve multilingual Siri parser accuracy for on-client domains, with a focus on scalability to low-resource languages. Designed, implemented, and deployed NLP software package for few-shot synthetic data generation of PII-free conversational language data, used by Siri teams for multilingual model training.
• Implemented language models end-to-end with data pipelines, training pipelines, on-device testing. Used Docker, AWS S3, protobuf.

### Research Assistant @ Yale University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New Haven, Connecticut
Natural Language Processing Lab: Language, Information and Learning (LILY) under Dr. Dragomir Radev
• Collaborative project with Facebook AI. Researched and developed NLP models for hybrid extractive–abstractive text summarization and argument graph modeling.
• Created conversation summarization benchmark on 40,000+ dialogues by implementing clustering and summarization pipeline with PyTorch, HuggingFace Transformers, sklearn. Used pandas, NumPy for data processing. Ran on Linux, used git.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Cambly Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California
• Improved support agent efficiency in 14+ countries by developing  tools for admin-level user authorizations and product pricing.
• Developed year-in-review statistics feature for 214,000 paid users, including database backfill and user-facing modals.
• Coded frontend with React, Redux, JavaScript/JSX, jQuery; backend and database with Python, MongoDB, pymongo. Used Git, Jira, Unix, CircleCI.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Wing
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Irvine, California
• Developed natural language processing pipeline for the Wing mobile app's machine learning backend.
• Automated user requests by writing code to conduct syntactic analysis, entity extraction, and NLU on user input with external REST APIs. Used NLTK, GCP, Google Cloud NL API for general NLP tasks and Google BERT for QA tasks. Wrote unit and integration tests. Used Jira, git, Unix.
• Integrated pipeline with Fuzzy Search APIs and web knowledge graphs.

### Founder, Developer, Content Creator @ eduPLEX
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
• Created an online educational platform with a prep course for AP Computer Science A. Received 50,000+ views.
• Coded website frontend with JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
• Wrote, recorded, edited 20+ videos using Adobe Audition, Photoshop, Premiere Pro. Animated with Adobe After Effects.

### Software Developer @ Yale Computer Society
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New Haven, Connecticut
• Worked on interface upgrades to CourseTable web app and site for 5,000 students using JavaScript, HTML, CSS. Used Docker, git, Unix.


## Education
### Computer Science in B.S.
Yale University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/faiaz-rahman
- GitHub: https://github.com/faiazrahman

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Last updated: 2026-03-31