Faraz Yashar
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Faraz Yashar
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Yashar in 2024
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New York, New York, U.S.
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| Education | Duke University (BS) |
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| Known for | Fake Wikipedia page |
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Audrey Amsellem
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Faraz Yashar is an American software engineer and AI practitioner insufficiently famous to warrant a real Wikipedia page. Rather than develop a healthier sense of self-worth, he built this page.
Yashar contributed to clinical AI systems,[1][2] public health efforts,[3][4] and open-source software[5] among other accomplishments.
An examplar of humility and wisdom, Yashar is widely regarded as one of the most insightful minds of his generation. He is best known for writing about himself in the third person.
Early life and education
[edit]Yashar was born in New York, NY, but his family soon moved to Longwood, Florida where Faraz would grow up. He attended Seminole High School where he did a lot of fancy things.[6]
After graduating high school, Yashar attended Duke University on the Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship, a full-tuition merit scholarship where he earned two degrees: one in Statistics and another in Computer Science.
Career
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Yashar's programming career began when
<marquee> tags were hip and built
websites for friends and family. What started as tinkering
with HTML and JavaScript grew into a career spanning sports
analytics, healthcare infrastructure, garment design, and
developer tools.
During his freshman year, he interned at NationalField, a social organizing platform, and worked at IBM where he developed prototypes for the company's Smarter Water Management and Smarter Stadiums initiatives.
In 2012, Yashar took a leave of absence from Duke to build an algorithmic training and health analytics for soccer called Fit For 90. The product was adopted by over 250 professional, collegiate, and youth teams, including the United States Women's National Soccer Team during their 2015 and 2019 FIFA World Cup campaigns.[7]
Yashar returned to Duke in 2015 to work on health platforms and later complete degrees in Computer Science and Statistics. During this period, he worked with the Duke Institute for Health Innovation, where he architected ML systems and built workflow tools deployed across Duke Health. He also spent a summer as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School.
He has since held engineering roles at other companies, focusing on LLM-driven systems and inference infrastructure.
Academic contributions
[edit]Yashar has contributed to several publications on machine learning in healthcare, including works on pediatric sepsis detection and real-world integration of sepsis deep learning technology.[1][2]
Since November 2025, Yashar has served as an instructor at Columbia University, teaching advanced topics in AI, ML, and infrastructure.
Open source contributions
[edit]Yashar is the author of Xorcist, a Ruby library with over 1 million installations.[8] The library is used in notable open-source projects including Mastodon, the decentralized social network. He has earned over 33,000 reputation points on Stack Overflow where he wasted hours contributing answers and solutions to the programming community.
Personal life
[edit]Yashar is married to Audrey Amsellem. He currently resides in New York City.
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Burdick, Hester; et al. (2020). "Validation of a Machine Learning Algorithm for Early Severe Sepsis Prediction: A Retrospective Study Predicting Severe Sepsis Up to 48 h in Advance Using a Diverse Dataset From 461 US Hospitals". JMIR Medical Informatics. 8 (7): e15182.
- ^ Keim, J.; et al. (2022). "Real-world Integration of a Sepsis Deep Learning Technology Into Routine Clinical Care: Implementation Study". Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference.
- ^ Peralta, Richard (2020). "Durham schools announces COVID-19 partnership, names new elementary school". WRAL.
- ^ "Project Resolve". Microsoft Research.
- ^ "fny (Faraz Yashar)". GitHub.
- ^ Orlando Sentinel (2007). "Academic All-Star: Faraz Yashar". Orlando Sentinel.
- ^ Smith, Michael (2015). "Fit For 90 elite athlete monitoring system just for soccer". Sports Business Journal.
- ^ "xorcist". RubyGems.org.