# Gaziz Tazhenov

> Software Engineer

Location: Castro Valley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gaziz

Build and improve products by figuring out the bigger picture and using it.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer Ads Serving Platform @ Reddit, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Backend engineer building mission-critical advertising infrastructure at Reddit. Led end-to-end design and production launch of AdEvents Routing Server (ARS), which processes 100,000 ad impressions per second - powering revenue attribution, ads pacing, and billing systems that drive Reddit's advertising business. 

Also led gRPC protocol migration for adserver and serve as technical expert across the ad serving stack, demonstrating deep systems knowledge and operational excellence under pressure.

Key areas: Large-scale event processing, Kafka streaming architecture, revenue-critical systems, production incident response, cross-team technical leadership.

### Advanced AI Studies & Independent Projects @ Unknown
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Completed graduate-level coursework in Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and Reinforcement Learning at The University of Texas at Austin

Developed practical implementations of machine learning models including Dense Prediction Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Policy Gradient Algorithms.

Consulted infrastructure software engineers on essentials of Deep Neural Networks training and inference.

### Software Engineer @ DoorDash
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Alexa Connected Devices
Backend Services of Alexa
Audio Algorithms

### Software Engineer - Financial Integrations @ Eventbrite
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Backend service for Financial Transactions


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning
The University of Texas at Austin

### BS in Automation in Control Systems
Kazakh-British Technical University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gaziz

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Last updated: 2026-04-11