Shehzan Maredia

Founder at Lava
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  • Hindi Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Gujarati Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Spanish Full professional proficiency
  • Marathi Professional working proficiency
  • English Full professional proficiency

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Credentials

  • Solidworks Certification
    Dassault Systèmes
    Mar, 2016
    - Nov, 2024
  • Advanced Backend Web Development
    Udemy
  • Blockchain
    Coursera
  • Deep Learning
    Coursera
  • Introduction to Machine Learning
    Coursera
  • React Native
    Udemy
  • iOS Development
    Udemy

Experience

  • Lava
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Founder
      • Jan 2022 - Present

      Making self-custody functional, safe, and simple Making self-custody functional, safe, and simple

  • Google
    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Engineering
      • Apr 2021 - Dec 2021

      Cloud AI - Media and Video Cloud AI - Media and Video

  • ContainIt
    • Software Development
    • Founder
      • Feb 2020 - Mar 2021

      - Merged with NOVID to build the world's first and most precise, anonymous contact tracing app with groundbreaking 99.8% distance precision and over 100,000 users - Led the development and growth of an automated, precise contact tracing solution to help notify users COVID-19 exposures. - Formed partnerships with government officials, health organizations, and large educational institutions - Featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, The New Yorker, Fast Company, MSNBC, The Chronicle, WRAL… Show more - Merged with NOVID to build the world's first and most precise, anonymous contact tracing app with groundbreaking 99.8% distance precision and over 100,000 users - Led the development and growth of an automated, precise contact tracing solution to help notify users COVID-19 exposures. - Formed partnerships with government officials, health organizations, and large educational institutions - Featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, The New Yorker, Fast Company, MSNBC, The Chronicle, WRAL, Duke Media, and more. Show less - Merged with NOVID to build the world's first and most precise, anonymous contact tracing app with groundbreaking 99.8% distance precision and over 100,000 users - Led the development and growth of an automated, precise contact tracing solution to help notify users COVID-19 exposures. - Formed partnerships with government officials, health organizations, and large educational institutions - Featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, The New Yorker, Fast Company, MSNBC, The Chronicle, WRAL… Show more - Merged with NOVID to build the world's first and most precise, anonymous contact tracing app with groundbreaking 99.8% distance precision and over 100,000 users - Led the development and growth of an automated, precise contact tracing solution to help notify users COVID-19 exposures. - Formed partnerships with government officials, health organizations, and large educational institutions - Featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, The New Yorker, Fast Company, MSNBC, The Chronicle, WRAL, Duke Media, and more. Show less

  • Shipt
    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Data Science
      • Aug 2020 - Jan 2021

      - Developed a machine learning model to create products to entity categorizations and used Shipt's recommendation algorithm to create product bundles from those categorizations - Worked on various other tasks like predicting product poundage, alcohol classifier, recommendations, and basket building

    • Data Science
      • May 2020 - Aug 2020

      - Used Weak Supervision through Snorkel to programmatically improve Shipt’s retailer's catalogs of 10+ million products through entity categorizations. - Worked on projects with applications in recommendation engines, search, product bundles, and product taxonomy tasks.

  • Joinly
    • Software Development
    • Founder
      • Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

      Was bored during COVID, so I created Joinly to help early-stage companies find team members as well as for individuals to find projects they are curious about joining. https://joinly.app/ Was bored during COVID, so I created Joinly to help early-stage companies find team members as well as for individuals to find projects they are curious about joining. https://joinly.app/

  • CrucialLearning
    • Software Development
    • Founder (Acquired)
      • May 2018 - Sep 2020

      - Sold to VitalSmarts LLC. - Developed and launched the first web-based adaptive learning platform providing over 15,000 personalized problems, solutions, and content for higher level competition training. - Reached over 5,000 users and created a profitable, subscription-based business. - Personalized user experiences, developed a mentor feature in the business, and offered educational content for users. - Sold to VitalSmarts LLC. - Developed and launched the first web-based adaptive learning platform providing over 15,000 personalized problems, solutions, and content for higher level competition training. - Reached over 5,000 users and created a profitable, subscription-based business. - Personalized user experiences, developed a mentor feature in the business, and offered educational content for users.

  • Duke University
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Founder of Duke Startup Union
      • Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

      - Created program to help connect student founders at Duke with team members and vice versa. - Organized speaker events with entrepreneurs

    • Engineer
      • Aug 2019 - Mar 2020

      - Led an embedded systems engineering project to build a system to detect fires in laser cutters, alert users of their presence, and suppress the fires. - Delivered project to client. - Used Teensy Microprocessors, relays, inert gas tanks, arduino, and C. - See system in action here: https://youtu.be/nsuoO0xRMKU

    • Founder of Accelerate
      • Aug 2019 - Feb 2020

      Accelerate developed into my startup, Joinly. Accelerate was a project I worked on to lead a group of students at Duke to develop software for startups.

  • UAB Medicine
    • United States
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Bioinformatics Researcher
      • Apr 2017 - Sep 2019

      Led my own independent project analyzing metabolomic influences on aging in drosophila species. Implemented various analysis tools to determine impacts of specific metabolites like carnitine, acetyle carnitine, and 2-hydroxyglutarate on aging as well as identify influences of mTOR pathway in the process.

    • Bioinformatics Researcher
      • Jan 2016 - Mar 2017

      Worked in a Immunology Lab analyzing genomic data regarding T-cell differentiation, particularly differentiation related to naive T-cells, Pre-Tfh, Non-Tfh cells into GC-Tfh cells. Implemented RNA-Seq, PCA, and other genomic analysis techniques.

  • Kinetic Communications
    • United States
    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Engineering
      • May 2018 - Aug 2019

      - Worked with PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, MySql, Python, Bootstrap - Created dynamic web applications for multiple clients while working on development and business tasks. - Contributed to Apple Accessibility through partnership with Lakeshore Foundation - Worked with PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, MySql, Python, Bootstrap - Created dynamic web applications for multiple clients while working on development and business tasks. - Contributed to Apple Accessibility through partnership with Lakeshore Foundation

  • Hoover High School
    • United States
    • Primary and Secondary Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Founder STEM Team
      • Aug 2017 - Aug 2019

      - Led team to win first place Internationally in TEAMS TSA AI competition. - Led team to win first place Internationally in TEAMS TSA AI competition.

  • Math Power Tutoring
    • E-Learning Providers
    • Founder Maredia Tutoring
      • Mar 2017 - Aug 2019

      - Founded a tutoring business in Birmingham, Alabama to train students of all ages in competitive math, competitive computer science, and ACT. - Helped each of my students improve on average their ACT scores by 4-6 points in 5 weeks. - My math and computer science students have frequently placed top 10 in regional competitions. - Founded a tutoring business in Birmingham, Alabama to train students of all ages in competitive math, competitive computer science, and ACT. - Helped each of my students improve on average their ACT scores by 4-6 points in 5 weeks. - My math and computer science students have frequently placed top 10 in regional competitions.

  • City of Hoover
    • United States
    • Government Administration
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Board Member
      • Feb 2017 - Aug 2019

      - Youngest Hoover City Parks and Recreation Board Member - Helped Plan Environmental Strategies such as Recycling, Raising Awareness, and Ecological Cleanups. - Youngest Hoover City Parks and Recreation Board Member - Helped Plan Environmental Strategies such as Recycling, Raising Awareness, and Ecological Cleanups.

Education

  • Duke University
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Math
  • Hoover High School
    Class Rank: 1/743

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