waddup nerd, its ziyad
My name is Ziyad Edher (زياد إضهير). I'm a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, software engineer, and I like breaking things. Follow me on Twitter for some occasionally good takes, but mostly crap.
I went to the University of Toronto and graduated from a computer science program focusing on artificial intelligence and computation theory.
Some things I like to talk about:
- Good software engineering and security engineering.
- Artificial intelligence broadly, but reinforcement learning specifically.
- Music (check out my Spotify).
- EVM performance (and performance in general).
- Microcontrollers and embedded systems.
Some maybe cool things I did in the past:
- Lead the Product Security team at Asana, primarily focussed on building great secure-by-default frameworks.
- Did performance work and built ML infrastructure at Citadel Securities.
- Interned at Google (twice) working on communications and security.
- Taught cars how to drive at aUToronto.
- Investigated EVM performance in part in evm-bench.
If you're a meganerd, here's my PGP key (fingerprint: CB5D A985 9769 0CC1). You can probably find some places to verify this if you don't wanna trust GCP.