# Farbod S.

> Staff Software Engineer at Twilio Segment

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/farbod

Building highly available and performant fault-tolerant distributed systems.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Segment
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Led the design and implementation of a modern OLAP platform on Kubernetes, simplifying deployment and reducing operational complexity and infrastructure costs for ClickHouse analytics clusters.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Segment
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Chegg Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, CA
Joined through WriteLab's acquisition and helped build Chegg's AI department from the ground up, designing and shipping the NLP/AI infrastructure, CPU and GPU based microservices, and CI/CD pipelines that powered grammar checking and plagiarism detection. Scaled the Writing Tools platform to serve over 400 million student sessions per year.

### Software Engineer II @ Chegg Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ WriteLab
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, CA
(Acquired by Chegg)
One of only five engineers, built the AI/NLP pipeline end-to-end at this Grammarly-style writing platform, contributing to the company's successful acquisition by Chegg.

### Software Engineer @ Udacity
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built a data classification and segmentation service with Stanford and Udacity teams to support machine learning training pipelines.

### Software Engineer @ Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built a data classification and segmentation service with Stanford and Udacity teams to support machine learning training pipelines.

### Software Engineer @ WellAnalytix (tQ Automation)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Houston, Texas Area
Developed IoT software for remote monitoring of oil and gas wells, working across computer, mechanical, and petroleum engineering teams.

### Teaching Assistant @ University of Houston System
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Houston, Texas Area
• Software Development with Java
• Advanced Software Development with .NET framework and C#


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer and Information Sciences
University of Houston

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering
Sepahan University of Science and Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/farbodsalimi
- Portfolio: https://farbod.dev

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Source: https://flows.cv/farbod
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/farbod/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-12