Zeeshan Lakhani
Engineer @ Oxide | Phd Student @SCS / S3D @ CMU | Co-Founder/Organizer of Papers We Love/PWLConfprev~@fission, @comcast, @basho, @arc90, @nypl_labs
- Role
- Engineer at Oxide Computer Company
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Zeeshan Lakhani
I\'m Zeeshan. I am* an engineer @ the Oxide Computer Company;* a Ph.D. student @ Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, studying Programming Language Theory with Frank Pfenning, focusing on Polarized Subtyping;* a co-founder and co-organizer of Papers We Love and PWLConf.Formerly, I was* a staff engineer @ Fission, where I worked on local-first software and led efforts on Homestar, an IPVM reference implementation for open-world computing and Wasm execution, and rust-template;* a director of fraud engineering and strategic research @ BlockFi, where I also wrote about composing observable Rust applications and co-ran engineering hiring;* a principal engineer @ Comcast, driving programmable networking, modern network function development, and traffic steering and NLBs;* a software engineer working on impactful distributed systems (Riak)@ Basho, particularly Riak Search, Hyperloglog data types, and Bigger Sets (delta CRDT sets).* an engineer who co-wrote the Readability 2.0 iOS app while @ Arc90;* a researcher who helped drive interactive content @ the NYPL Labs
Experience
Engineer
May 2024 — Present · US
Education
New York University
M.M, Music Technology
2006 — 2009
Carnegie Mellon University
In Progress, Computer Science
2018 — 2025
Santa Fe University of Art and Design
B.A., Film (Moving Image Arts)
2002 — 2006
Skills
- Elasticsearch
- Processing (Processing.org)
- Data Visualization
- Racket
- Unix Administration and Shell Scripting
- Emacs
- Clojure
- Coffeescript
- Javascript
- Ios Development
- Python
- Physical Computing (with Arduino Boards)
- Objective-C
- Ruby
- Max/Msp/Jitter
- Matlab/Octave
- Git
- Erlang
- ML
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