Reza Shiftehfar

Director of Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States24 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led AI and data governance initiatives at Apple.
Founded Uber's data platform, scaling it significantly.
Designed innovative solutions for cloud and mobile applications.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with a strong focus on AI and data management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingMachine LearningData Management ServiceData PrivacyBig DataData IngestionSoftware DevelopmentDistributed SystemsConstruction Management

Other Skills

AI/Data GovernanceAnalyticsHadoopData QualitySearch InfrastructureData StorageMobile Application DevelopmentRFID TechnologyMatlabSystem DesignAlgorithmsLearning New ConceptsAndroidMathematical ModelingData Mining

Experience

24 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

6 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Apple

2 roles

Director of Engineering - Apple Cloud AI Platform

Promoted

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

Senior leader accelerating adoption of generative AI and AI/Data Governance across Apple. Leading Apple Cloud AI Platform and Apple Governance Platform groups:
► Leading Apple Cloud AI Platform (ACAI) for training and inference of Apple internal models and open source LLMs on public Clouds as well as Agent Engine to run developed agentic applications at Apple scale.
► Leading Apple ML Data Platform for AI, including Embedding Platform, AIOps, Feature Platform, Cross-Cloud ML Data Virtualization & Caching, Data Management Service, Apple ML SDK
► Leading Apple AI & Data Governance Platform enabling Apple-wide AI & data registry, end-to-end ML lifecycle management, data & model lineage tracking, Agent/MCP Server registry and identity management, unified Authorization,....
► Apple representative for external contributions to open-source AI and Data technologies while customizing OSS solutions and offering them to all Apple infra/engineering/product teams.
I'm hiring Senior Managers and Staff Engineers familiar with AI Infrastructure or ML/Data Governance & Compliance to build our cutting-edge Apple Cloud AI platform. Multiple positions are available in Seattle, Bay area, and London **

Cloud ComputingMachine LearningData Management ServiceAI/Data Governance

Head of Storage & Compute infrastructure - AI/ML at Apple

Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 · 3 yrs

Senior leader in Apple’s AI/Ml group:
► Led data and privacy platform that powers analytics, machine learning, experimentation, annotation, and search use cases.
► Led the effort to build one of the first Apple's core Data & ML platforms in the public Cloud at Exabyte scale and migrated critical products such as Siri, Search, Machine-Learning Platform, Maps,... from on-prem infra into public Cloud.

Cloud ComputingMachine LearningData PrivacyAnalytics

Uber - data platform & infrastructure

Sr. Engineering Manager

Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 · 6 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

► Founded Uber’s data platform in 2014 & laid out the strategy, roadmap, architecture to provide "Big Data as a service" for all ML, data science, analytical or financial use-cases.
► Led the effort to scale the platform from 5 TeraBytes of data in 2014 to 300+ PetaBytes in 2020 while reducing data latency from 24+ hours down to a few minutes.
► Formed the Hadoop Platform group and grew it from 4 engineers to 36 engineers/managers as part of 5 teams:
1) Data Ingestion team: Building the platform to ingest all Uber’s data as the source-of-truth for all data needs
2) Data Dispersal & External Data team: Building the platform to bring external data in or to disperse data out
3) Hudi Data Storage team: Developing our open-sourced in-house file format for storing all Uber’s analytical data
4) Data Schema and Metadata Management team: Managing end-to-end data quality by enforcing type & content checks on data as it is being generated by online services
5) Data support & operation team: Operating 5000+ data pipelines & 15+ services in prime datacenters and Cloud using a team of SREs
► Led the effort to initiate, develop, and open-source key technical solutions such as Apache Hudi storage or Marmaray data ingestion/dispersal platforms

Big DataData IngestionHadoopData Quality

Twitter

Software Developer

Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 · 0 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Twitter Search Infrastructure Team:
Expanded Twitter User Search results using topical knowledge from user’s Lists
Built resiliency for Expert Search against index manipulation by spammers/attackers

Software DevelopmentSearch Infrastructure

Apple

Software Developer at iOS team

Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 · 0 mo · Cupertino, CA

iOS Team:: Apple Maps Infrastructure Team:
Designed a large-scale HDFS/Cloud-based distributed data storage system for Apple Maps spatial data focusing on computation performance and spatial indexing
Designed a large-scale distributed spatial query execution system for Apple Maps

Distributed SystemsData Storage

University of illinois at urbana-champaign

2 roles

Graduate Research Assistant in Computer Science

Promoted

Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 · 4 yrs · Champaign, IL

Mobile devices & Cloud Computing: Design of an adaptive actor-based programming framework for mobile-cloud application development, combining end-user, public & private cloud spaces into a uniform transparent environment responsive to surrounding context, deployment policy, and organizational requirements.
Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) Technique for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) facing Time-synchronization Constraints: Minimizing energy consumption on WSN using DVFS technique while keeping the clocks synchronized.

Cloud ComputingMobile Application Development

Research Assistant in Civil Engineering - Construction Management

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr · Champaign, IL

Research focused on Green Construction, Intelligent and Integrated Sustainable Construction, and RFID-based indoor location tracking.
Design of an Indoor Location Tracking System for Disaster Management: A robust indoor-outdoor localization system that benefits from the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure.

Construction ManagementRFID Technology