# Kayvan Zahiri

> AI Engineer @ Asurion | MS in Data Science and AI @ USFCA

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

Master’s in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence with hands-on experience building production data and AI systems, including ETL pipelines (dlt, dbt, Dagster), LLM fine-tuning and evaluation (RLHF), and full-stack applications in Python, Java, and React. I’ve worked as an AI Engineer and Software Developer optimizing data ingestion, automating workflows, and developing GenAI tools used in real-world and academic settings. Looking ahead, I’m focused on deepening my expertise in scalable data systems, applied machine learning, and generative AI, and contributing to teams building reliable, high-impact AI products from design through deployment.

## Work Experience
### AI Engineer @ Asurion
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### AI Engineer @ Spotly Jobs
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026
• Built and optimized ATS integration pipelines, increasing successful job ingestion coverage by 5%+ and enabling processing of hundreds of new job postings per run through dlt and dbt.
• Created 7 Dagster assets/sensors to automate ETL workflows/long-run monitors, reducing manual intervention 50%+ 
• Increased ingestion throughput by optimizing scraping logic and API handling, improving processing speed by 30–40%.

### AI Engineer @ Outlier
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco County, CA
• Trained LLMs using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, improving instruction-following accuracy by 20%.
• Evaluated 1M+ tokens across multiple datasets, surfacing 300+ instruction-following errors.
• Refactored 3+ AI models to generate more precise and succinct output.

### Software Developer @ University of San Francisco
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco County, CA
• Lead developer on IDEA team software development, delivering 3 full-cycle applications.
• Created 3 business/entrepreneurship GenAI Python apps, adopted by 50+ students and professors in coursework.
• Conducted research on 10+ existing AI tools and technologies.

### Software Developer @ University of San Francisco
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Created and deployed 2 generative AI Thunkable apps, one of which was featured on the site’s front page.
• Lead developer on a full-stack PeopleMuseum project app and built a codebase of over 5,000 lines of code.
• Used React JS to create front-end UI, achieving load times under 2 seconds with optimized API connections.
• Worked on a team with 5+ graduate students and professors, delivering 100% of milestones on schedule.

### Software Developer @ Founders Network
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco County, CA
• Built Slack site integrations into an existing codebase of over 10,000 lines of code.
• Delivered 8 sprint cycles in an Agile environment with a 95% on-time delivery rate.
• Worked with the CEO and a team of professional developers as an intern.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
University of San Francisco

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of San Francisco

### Balboa High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kayvan-zahiri
- Portfolio: https://kzahiri1.github.io/Portfolio/
- GitHub: https://github.com/kzahiri1
- GitHub: https://github.com/Kayvan-Zahiri
- Portfolio: https://kayvan-zahiri.github.io/Portfolio

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Last updated: 2026-04-17