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AI Systems · Security · Infrastructure

Farnaz Zinnah

AI Systems Engineer

I build AI systems, break them on purpose to understand failure modes, and help decide which systems are safe to ship.

AI Systems Engineer working across Azure and GCP, focused on AI systems, security, and governance. Status: building and reviewing.

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Experience / 01

Experience

Work and school, side by side.

Dec 2022 → PresentCon Edison — AI Systems Engineer

Building and governing AI and automation systems in Enterprise Architecture, from production LLM pipelines to formal risk review of proposed AI deployments.

In progressNYU Tandon — MS Computer Engineering

Graduate work across high-performance ML systems, systems engineering, and computer engineering.

CompletedCCNY — BE Computer Engineering

Undergraduate foundation across software, computer systems, and computer engineering.

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What I build with.

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# ml-security

pytorch adversarial robustness + model evaluation
pgd-fgsm failure-mode and transferability testing
imagenet held-out classifier evaluation

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# systems-performance

mojo-cuda GPU kernel benchmarking
roofline compute vs memory bottleneck reasoning
throughput pipeline and I/O performance analysis

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# cloud-ai

azure AI Foundry · OpenAI · Key Vault
gcp Vertex AI · Gemini · Vision
rag-agents retrieval and model orchestration

Field Archive / 03

Beyond the work.

Hackathons, professional communities, workshops, and the rooms where technical work becomes something shared.

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Farnaz working with teammates at a hackathon table

01 / Build

In the work

Hackathon build session.

Farnaz standing in front of a Microsoft sign

02 / Industry

Microsoft

Learning beyond the day-to-day.

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03 / Community

SWE

Engineering in company.

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04 / Exchange

Ideas in circulation

Technical conversations beyond the screen.

Farnaz with a hackathon team beside their project

05 / Team

From problem to prototype

Building collaboratively under a deadline.

Farnaz seated outside Massachusetts Institute of Technology

06 / Learning

MIT

Curiosity outside the boundaries of work.

Farnaz with a professional group at an engineering event

07 / Community

In the room

The people behind the technical work.

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08 / Record

SWE 2025

A small artifact from the larger experience.

Farnaz at a MongoDB developer event

09 / Developer

MongoDB

Meeting the broader developer community.

Farnaz standing outside Harvard Business School

10 / Learning

Harvard Business School

Looking beyond engineering alone.