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Shayan Salehian

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Founder at Mirendil

San Francisco Bay Area

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About

He was a member of technical staff at xAI from 2024 to 2026, and before that spent six years on machine learning at Twitter and X, most recently as a staff machine learning engineer. He also interned as a machine learning engineer at PayPal.

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Mirendil's investors · 6

Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2026Basic CapitalNew YorkKleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checks · since 2026NVIDIASanta Clara · since 2026Sunflower Capital Management FundTranspose Platform ManagementSan Francisco

Co-founders at Mirendil

BNBehnam Neyshabur
Behnam NeyshaburFounder
HM
Harsh MehtaFounder

Experience

  1. MirendilCo-Foundercurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. xAIMember of Technical Staff2024 — 2026Palo Alto, California, United States
  3. XStaff Machine Learning Engineer2022 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
  4. TwitterSenior Machine Learning Engineer2018 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
  5. PayPalMachine Learning Engineer Intern2017

Skills & more

Creativity9Python37Tensorflow3Scala1Java46Django13C++49C29JavaScript21ASP.NET3C#3Linux26
+12 moreNode.jsPHPLaravel PHP FrameworkBashGitMySQLjQueryCSSSASSLeadershipProgrammingMachine Learning

Languages English · Persian

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Who is Shayan Salehian?
He was a member of technical staff at xAI from 2024 to 2026, and before that spent six years on machine learning at Twitter and X, most recently as a staff machine learning engineer. He also interned as a machine learning engineer at PayPal.
Where does Shayan Salehian work?
Shayan Salehian is Founder of Mirendil.
What companies did Shayan Salehian found?
Shayan Salehian founded Mirendil.
Where did Shayan Salehian go to school?
Shayan Salehian studied at University of California, Riverside (Master’s Degree, Computer Science); Sharif University of Technology (Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering).

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