Serj Kazar
Co-Founder & CTO of Exia Labs
Experience
Career
2024Exia Labs
Co-founderCo-Founder & CTO · Los Angeles, CA · 2024 – Present
2023Riot Games
Principal Software Engineer · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2023 – 2024
- 2020
Riot Games
Staff Software Engineer · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2020 – 2023
2019Bird
Engineering Manager · Los Angeles, California · 2019 – 2020
- 2018
Bird
Software Engineer · Greater Los Angeles Area · 2018 – 2019
- 2016
Riot Games
Software Engineer · Greater Los Angeles Area · 2016 – 2018
- 2015
Riot Games
Software Engineering Intern · Los Angeles, California · 2015
2015Amazon Web Services
SDE Intern on DynamoDB · Greater Seattle Area · 2015
- 2014
Riot Games
Software Engineering Intern · Santa Monica, California · 2014
2013Autodesk
Software Development Intern - Maya Simulation team · Toronto, Canada Area · 2013
- 2012
Autodesk
Software Development Intern - Mudbox Team · Canada · 2012
2011Topix Computer Graphics and Animation Inc.
3D Generalist · Toronto · 2011
- 2011
Topix Computer Graphics and Animation Inc.
Intern · Toronto · 2011
Bio
Serj is co-founder and CTO of Exia Labs, and is a leading applied AI x Games Engineer. He has working in the data, ML, and AI domain for a decade. Serj's career followed the growth trajectory of the data industry, going from managing data ecosystems and writing MapReduce all the way to integrating ML & AI into games today. Most recently, he was a Principal Engineer where he served as Tech Lead of ML & Data for League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics and Wild Rift. There, he shipped things like ML bots, in-game recommendation systems, MMR systems, player behavior detection systems, and more. He has also developed two data & MLops ecosystems at two different companies, together reaching a scale of petabytes of stored data and terabytes of data being moved per day. He graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.