Tallat M. Shafaat

Tallat M. Shafaat has a diverse work experience spanning various companies and roles in the field of software engineering and research. From 2020, they are currently working as a Co-Founder at Vectara, a neural search service company that focuses on natural language processing.

Prior to Vectara, Tallat worked at Google from 2013 to 2020, primarily as a Senior Software Engineer. Tallat M. was involved in projects such as search infrastructure and knowledge graph, as well as ads backend infrastructure and large-scale data storage infrastructure. Their responsibilities at Google also included working on event notification and continuous extraction services.

Before joining Google, Tallat worked as a Researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) from 2007 to 2013. Tallat M. was responsible for conducting research in the field of computer science during their tenure.

In parallel with their role at SICS, Tallat also worked as a Ph.D. student at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2013. Their research interests during this time included large-scale distributed systems, distributed algorithms, data-intensive systems, cloud computing, and peer-to-peer systems. Tallat M. built a scalable and elastic key-value store in a decentralized setting as part of their Ph.D. project.

Tallat has also gained industry experience through internships at Microsoft Research in 2013 and 2012, as well as at VMware Inc. in 2011 and 2010, where they worked as a research intern and software engineer intern, respectively.

Prior to their academic and research pursuits, Tallat worked as a Consultant at LMKR - LandMark Resources in 2006, focusing on grid computing and distributed text mapping.

Tallat M. began their career as a Software Engineer at F3 Technologies Inc. / Mobile Technologies in 2003, where they contributed to projects related to mobile payments systems, email servers, and web clients using languages such as Java and C#.

Overall, Tallat M. Shafaat has a strong background in software engineering and research, with expertise in neural search, distributed systems, cloud computing, and more.

Tallat M. Shafaat has a strong educational background in computer systems and distributed systems. They obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, where they studied from 1999 to 2003. Following their undergraduate studies, they pursued a Master of Science degree in Distributed Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, from 2004 to 2006. Continuing their academic journey, Tallat M. Shafaat went on to complete a Ph.D. in Distributed Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where they studied from 2007 to 2012.