Raza Abbas

Experience

Software Engineer II · Meta IC4 Aug 2024 – Present

Privacy · New York, NY

Took sole ownership of Meta's EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) Position 1.5 for iOS & Android — a workstream previously owned by IC6+.
Launched 6 months early, consolidating Position 1.0 into 1.5 and halving mobile compliance scope.
Drove a company-wide legal decision enabling AI-driven compliance with a single on-call engineer, reducing the mobile compliance team from 5 to 0.
Built agentic AI systems for metric tracking, alerting, user support, and false-positive detection across DMA.
H2-24 performance: Redefines Expectations — awarded to <1% of Meta employees company-wide.

SDE Intern · Amazon (AWS) 3× intern 2021 – 2023

AWS Console Search & AWS Future Engineer · San Francisco + Seattle, CA

Summer 2023: Integrated AWS Support service APIs into Console Home using AWS Janus for credential signing and Lotus CSP for streamlined user workflows.
Summer 2022: Homogenized search result categories across AWS Console Search using OpenSearch and Elasticsearch indices; built Lambda + Orchestrator integrations with CloudWatch observability.
Summer 2021 (Amazon Future Engineer): Built an SDK for AWS SageMaker enabling Data Scientists to scale AI/ML models from local to production-level code on EC2/S3 with CodePipeline CI/CD.

Undergraduate Researcher · MIT Superintelligence Lab pre-ChatGPT Feb 2021 – May 2022

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence · Cambridge, MA

Researched large language models — specifically GPT-3 — before ChatGPT existed, exploring human-AI collaboration at scale.
Studied tasks uniquely suited to AI-human hybrid environments; produced findings on collaborative task decomposition.
Built Python web applications for Java and React code generation using GPT-3 as the underlying model.

M.Eng Computer Science · MIT 2023 – 2024

GPA: 5.0 · Cambridge, MA

Thesis: Revolutionizing Educational Assessments in Correctional Facilities: Leveraging Large Language Models for Verbal Aptitude Evaluation

B.S. AI & Decision Making · MIT 2020 – 2024

GPA: 5.0 · Cambridge, MA

Computer Vision · Machine Learning · NLP · Computational Cognition · Advanced Algorithms · Inverse Computer Graphics