About

Professional

• I work as a machine learning infrastructure engineer at Cohere. My job requires a combination of back-end, infrastructure, and data engineering skills.
• I write most of my code in Go, Bash, Python, and SQL. However, I'm always interested in learning new languages and technologies.
• Prior to Cohere, I worked as a data engineer at a small data science consultancy. I spent my last 10 months there with Points before leaving the consultancy.
• My undergraduate degree is in computer science. I took an extra year in order to squeeze in extra computer science courses and to pick up a minor in sociology.

Personal

• My full name is pronounced key-yawn mayr. My first name is Arabic and means "being" or "existence".
• I live and work in my home town of Toronto.
• I'm of Black Jamaican and Gujarati Indian descent. Naturally, I love spicy food.
• I am gender non-conforming and use singular they pronouns. I prefer not to make a big deal out of it.
• When I'm not working, I'm usually hanging out with friends, reading technical content, exploring Wikipedia rabbit holes, trying not to burn dinner, drafting blog posts, or hiking mountains. I also like music, tea, plants, and spreadsheets.