Hello, I'm

Kayvan Zahiri

AI Engineer & Software Developer

Founder of ResumeAI · AWS & GCP Certified · GenAI · LLM Fine-Tuning · Voice AI

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400K+ Audio Samples Labeled
1M+ Tokens Evaluated
7+ Countries Reached
12.7K SF Blocks Predicted

About Me

Kayvan Zahiri

I'm an AI Engineer, Software Developer, and the founder of ResumeAI — an AI-powered resume platform I built solo that's now used across 7+ countries. I'm currently on the Voice AI team at Asurion, where I built a voice turn-detection system and scaled an automated labeling pipeline to fine-tune a Whisper-based model for real-time conversational AI.

With a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.S. in Data Science & AI in progress at the University of San Francisco, I work across the full AI/ML lifecycle — from training and fine-tuning LLMs with RLHF to shipping production MLOps pipelines and full-stack apps powered by cutting-edge AI.

AI / ML

LLM fine-tuning, RLHF, RAG, Voice AI, prompt engineering, and model evaluation

Full-Stack

React, Next.js, TypeScript, Python — building apps from database to deployment

Cloud & MLOps

AWS & GCP certified · MLOps pipelines, ETL, Docker, distributed computing

Experience

AI Engineer

Asurion

Jan 2026 — Present Remote
  • Built a voice turn-detection system, improving auto-labeling accuracy from 50% to 88%+ (90%+ on a 400-sample validation set)
  • Designed and scaled an automated labeling pipeline to auto-label 400K+ audio samples, enabling large-scale fine-tuning of a Whisper-based PyTorch model
  • Deployed the model in a real-time voice AI pipeline (LiveKit) for low-latency, end-to-end conversational agent testing

AI Engineer

Spotly Jobs

Oct 2025 — Jan 2026 Remote
  • Built optimized ATS pipelines, increasing job coverage 5%+ and processing hundreds of postings per run via dlt/dbt
  • Created 7 Dagster assets/sensors to automate ETL workflows, reducing manual intervention 50%+
  • Improved processing speed by 30–40% through optimized scraping logic and API handling

AI Engineer

Outlier AI

May 2024 — Sep 2025 Remote
  • Trained LLMs using RLHF, improving instruction-following accuracy by 20%
  • Evaluated 1M+ tokens across multiple datasets, surfacing 300+ instruction-following errors
  • Refactored 3+ AI models to generate more precise and succinct output

Software Developer

University of San Francisco · IDEA Team

Sep 2024 — May 2025 San Francisco, CA
  • Lead developer delivering 3 full-cycle applications for the IDEA team
  • Created 3 GenAI Python apps adopted by 50+ students and professors
  • Researched and evaluated 10+ existing AI tools and technologies

Software Developer

Founders Network

Aug 2024 — Dec 2024 San Francisco, CA
  • Built Slack integrations into a codebase of over 10,000 lines of code
  • Delivered 8 sprint cycles in Agile with a 95% on-time delivery rate
  • Collaborated directly with the CEO and a team of professional developers

Software Developer

University of San Francisco

May 2024 — Aug 2024 San Francisco, CA
  • Created and deployed 2 generative AI Thunkable apps, one featured on the site's front page
  • Lead developer on a full-stack PeopleMuseum project — 5,000+ lines of code
  • Built front-end UI with React JS, achieving load times under 2 seconds

Featured Projects

Founder SaaS AI

ResumeAI

AI-powered ATS resume optimizer I founded and built solo — ATS compatibility scoring, Claude-powered bullet rewriting, AI cover letter generation, PDF/DOCX export, and a companion Chrome extension. Reached active users across 7+ countries with 80%+ week-over-week new-user growth.

Next.js TypeScript Supabase Claude API Stripe Chrome Extension
Live Site
MLOps ML

ParkCast SF

End-to-end MLOps system predicting parking occupancy for 12.7K SF blocks at 8.98 MAE / 0.73 R² from a 33-feature LightGBM residual model. Fully automated GitHub Actions retraining pipeline with MLflow tracking and a champion-challenger gate that blocks silent regressions before Cloud Run rollout.

FastAPI LightGBM Docker GCP Cloud Run GitHub Actions MLflow
GitHub
Mobile App AI

PantrIQ

Full-stack AI-powered mobile app for smart pantry management with recipe suggestions, automated meal planning, shopping list generation, and multi-input support (scan, voice, text).

React Native TypeScript Supabase OpenAI TailwindCSS
App Store
Python Library Open Source

PeopleCodeOpenAI

Python library providing easy access to OpenAI's tools and APIs — including text-to-speech, speech recognition, and RAG. Used in introductory courses at USF.

Python OpenAI API RAG Speech Recognition
Live Site
Data Science Streamlit

Semiparametric Regression Visualizer

Interactive web app for exploring semiparametric regression models. Compare OLS vs Generalized Additive Models with real-time visualizations on datasets like Boston Housing and World Happiness.

Python Streamlit pygam statsmodels Google Cloud Run
Live App
GenAI Research

AI Interviewer Tool

GenAI-powered research app that simulates user interviews and focus groups. Define participant personas, conduct interactive interviews, and gather AI-driven insights for product and UX research.

Python Streamlit OpenAI Prompt Engineering
Live App
Data Dashboard NLP

AI/ML Industry Data Dashboard

Data dashboard aggregating AI/ML content from arXiv papers and Medium articles. Features automated scraping via GCS, article trend visualizations, and Anthropic topic clustering analysis.

Python Streamlit GCS NLP Anthropic Google Cloud Run

Skills & Technologies

Languages

Python TypeScript Java C SQL NoSQL JavaScript HTML/CSS

AI / ML

Generative AI LLM Fine-Tuning RLHF Voice AI Prompt Engineering Model Evaluation RAG Deep Learning PyTorch Whisper Claude API OpenAI

Data Science

PySpark SparkSQL Pandas NumPy Scikit-Learn Matplotlib Plotly ETL Pipelines Regression Classification Unsupervised Learning

Tools & Platforms

AWS GCP Docker Git / GitHub Bash LiveKit MLflow Dagster Apache Airflow dlt / dbt MongoDB Distributed Computing

Frameworks

React / React Native Next.js FastAPI Supabase Stripe TailwindCSS Streamlit Bootstrap Eclipse Jetty Maven

Education & Certifications

M.S. in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence

University of San Francisco

Jul 2025 — Jun 2026 (Expected)

B.S. in Computer Science

University of San Francisco

Aug 2021 — May 2025

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Google Cloud Digital Leader

Google Cloud

Let's Connect

I'm always open to new opportunities, collaborations, and conversations. Feel free to reach out!

kzahiri@dons.usfca.edu LinkedIn GitHub