Mazdak Hashemi flying a plane
Technology Advisor

MazdakÌýHashemi's career has focused on building and scaling platforms andÌýinfrastructures for both consumer and enterprise companies. HeÌýwasÌýformerly vice president of engineering at Twitter, where during his tenure [2012-2018] he championed a number of efforts which improved Twitter’s reliability, scalabilityÌýand efficiency.ÌýPrior to Twitter, he ledÌýinfrastructure and security forÌýSupport.com, aÌýremote technology company, and heÌýwasÌýpart of theÌýcore team to architect and launch the company'sÌýCloud platform.ÌýMazdakÌýwasÌýthe CTO/founder for a software start-up company, and he has held different engineering roles forÌýsmall-to-medium sized global software companies, fromÌýearly stage to mature public companies. MazdakÌýhas served as faculty at the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, his alma mater, where he received a doctorate in computer science. His areas of technical expertise include software engineering, data mining, databasesÌýand distributed systems.ÌýMazdakÌýis an advocate of promoting equality in technology andÌýwasÌýa male ally executive sponsor for @TwitterWomen.

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