Reza Farivar, PhD.

Software engineer, tech lead, and engineering manager with a passion for Cloud Computing, Distributed and Streaming Systems, and Machine Learning (ML) on the Cloud. 20+ years of hands-on technical experience in industry and Academia. Certified in Cloud (AWS) and Project Management (PMP). Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois,teaching Cloud Computing in the MCS/DS program.

200+ published papers and patents, with h-index=17

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I have built my career on three pillars: Industry Experience, Research and Teaching


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Industry Experience

I have worked at medium and large Tech companies such as Yahoo, Capital One and Twilio, as well as startup companies.

My focus are is Cloud-based distributed Systems backend for Streaming Data Processing Applications (AWS, Kubernetes, API, decoupled architecture, Kafka, etc.)

I also have experience in setting up Machine Learning pipelines using Cloud services for innovative applications.

Industry Experience
Research
Industry and Academic

I have a track recod of hundreds of published patents and paper.

Patents Publications


Featured Research and Projects
  • Serverless logging
  • MultiModal AI-assited Travel Planner
  • Text AI assitance for Presentations
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Teaching

I have been teaching Cloud Computing and Big Data courses at the University of Illinois since 2015.

  • Cloud Computing Applications
  • Cloud Computing Capstone
  • Data Mining Capstone
  • Cloud Computing Appplications MOOC P1
  • Cloud Computing Appplications MOOC P2
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