azra bano
engineer
i study electrical & computer engineering + math at rutgers.
i'm an engineer who researches / engineers / deploys — builds to make impact on our world & i build communities to help people do the same.
what i'm best at: getting ai off the laptop and into the real world. onto a $3 chip, into a robot swarm, onto a race car, into a hospital. i got my first job at a yc startup at 14 and i have not stopped building since.
- #1 of 30,000+
- y combinator's hackathon, ml research. 172 driverless cars sharing san francisco with nobody in charge.
- 1st of 300
- nasa's national pitch competition. then i built robot swarms for them.
- 360x
- faster. how quickly an ads forecasting system at google now recovers when it breaks.
- 20x
- hackathon winner. i go every weekend.
- 14
- fixes sent to the tools nvidia, stanford and tesla ship. 5 merged so far.
- 3x
- founder. one of them takes out your trash.
- 2M+
- impressions on what i write about building.
outside of work, i like to hike & travel & make videos for my future kids / read / host. i go to hackathons every weekend, and like experimenting with new technologies.
if you're working on something technically difficult or socially important:
azrabano.work@gmail.com / dm me
let's walk through my life.
“the world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” attributed to st. augustine
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education
experience
big sur, north to south
things i started
projects
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open source
when a bug lives in a tool everyone uses, most people work around it. i read the source and send the fix.
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leadership
awards
research
trail notes
2,000,000impressions on what i've written
10,138people following along on linkedin
why i climb.
the part of the hike
that isn't on the resume.
Outside
People
Small things
i love food.
On the fridge
as always,
carpe diem
Paintings in the public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Home photograph via Unsplash. Terrain: Esri World Imagery, Mapzen elevation. Photographs my own.