# Zak Bainazarov

> Software Engineer @ Meta

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/zakbainazarov

Building tools for AI researchers at Meta

Have built APIs+DBs for billions of users, UIs for millions, and C++ projects for research and college. 

Full stack including AI Integrations, APIs, and big data pipelines (Petabyte scale). Most familiar with Java, Typescript, C#, and python

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States
Reality Labs - building tools for AI researchers

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Los Angeles, California, United States
Ads Measurement - data pipelines and services handling Amazon scale traffic.
Ads Forecasting - AI driven workflows for customer budget allocation

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cerebral
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States
Built Elasticsearch integration, data pipeline and guided microservice adoption

### Software Engineer L2 @ Physna
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Columbus, Ohio, United States
3D geometric search
Monolith -> Event-driven Microservices
Machine Learning at scale
Led development of Public API
Met with customers

### Senior Software Engineer @ WillowTree (formerly Dynamit)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Columbus, Ohio Area
Shipped complete rewrite of the customer site using React and Adobe Experience Manager. Improved security and performance of map page by 7x

### Software Engineer @ Chase
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Solved a major problem of concurrency causing Production User Lockouts, which had been an
issue for over 2 years
• Created backend services for reading from Kafka and writing to Cassandra

### Program Manager @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Bellevue, WA
Customer Resource Management
• Redesigned the mobile UI and championed accessibility

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Visual Studio Application Insights Team
• Implemented a UI component to display status updates.

### Software Developer Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Redmond, WA
Bing Engineering Fundamentals (eFun)
 - Used AI to categorize errors as system or product issues
 - Simplified internal build system through automatic scanning of redundant dependencies

### Software Development Test Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA
Application Virtualization (App-V)
• Revealed a major bug that non-admin users could not use our program.

### Student Instructional Assistant @ The Ohio State University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Dreese Labs CSE Department
-	Graded assignments for CSE 4221: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming for Graduate Students and non-majors

### Undergraduate Researcher @ The Ohio State University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Dreese Labs CSE Department
-	Implemented AI integration to automatically generate homework questions in Discrete Math and Predicate Calculus courses
-	Worked with Dr. Bruce Weide, associate chair of the CSE Department and Dr. Paolo Bucci
-	Using similar logic and tools, developed software for use in verification and validation of software
-	Wrote programs in Java, documented code using JavaDocs, and synchronized code using SVN


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science and Engineering
The Ohio State University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23