Holla Y'all

🌊. I'm Zeeshan. I am

• a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, studying Programming Language Theory with Frank Pfenning, with a focus on Polarized Subtyping.

• a Staff Engineer at Fission, working on local-first software and leading efforts on Homestar, an IPVM reference implementation for open-world computing and Wasm execution, and rust-template;
• a co-founder and co-organizer of Papers We Love and PWLConf;

Formerly, I was

• a director of fraud engineering and strategic research at BlockFi;
• a principal engineer at Comcast, driving programmable networking and software NLBs;
• a software engineer working on impactful distributed systems (Riak) at Basho;
• an engineer who co-wrote the Readability 2.0 iOS app while at Arc90;
• a researcher who helped drive interactive content at NYPL Labs.

You can find more information about presentations I've given and what I've worked on in my resume.