Howdy, I'm Hassaan Raza. I'm the CEO and Co-Founder of Tavus. Tavus is a generative AI research company building a new human-computer interface using conversational video/digital twins. We like to joke that we were doing generative AI before there was a nice name for it. My background is in computer science, and before Tavus, I was a software engineer for many years as well as a PM (being a SWE was more my vibe though, I like building). I spend most of my time these days in San Francisco at the Tavus office in the Mission (come visit!) working with an insane team. This website was made for fun, but primarily to hold context for my digital twin.
Leading an awesome team building frontier digital twin models and new human-computer interfaces for developers to use for conversational video and AI avatar functionality.
Shilling GCP and doing some ML stuff
Led security projects for macOS as EPM/SWE
Started a product studio, worked in a few different industries as a SWE, went to UT for CS
Started at HP at the ripe age of 16 and it almost turned me away from tech FOREVER. Mostly because I was an edgy teen probably.
I'm pretty easily entertained by things that are aesthetic, technical, or adrenaline-pumping, but some topics that specifically interest me is how humans and computers communicate with each other, cars/racing (especially mid-2010s American cars; I'm a GM boomer at 27), architecture (specifically brutalist architecture), corporate strategy failures (Palm, DaimlerChrysler, etc.), and overall, the history of design and technology (hence this website) and sci-fi. I also love archery; you can sometimes find me at the Golden Gate Park archery range on Sunday afternoons.
[ CLICK HERE ] to watch an obnoxious old car ad that showcases a lot of my interests in a nutshell
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