Shehzan Mohammed
(He/Him)VP of Product and Engineering
As Cesium's Vice President of Product and Engineering, Shehzan oversees the overall Cesium product platform and ecosystem. He facilitates the product roadmaps, platform cohesion, and ecosystem engagement that will have the greatest impact on Cesium's users. He works with Cesium's engineering teams to create strong alignment and buy-in between product management and engineering needs. He also contributes to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to advance open standards for geospatial applications and is a frequent contributor to and speaker on 3D geospatial technology.
Prior to his current role, Shehzan led Cesium's 3D engineering and ecosystem, guiding the product development for Cesium's runtime engines and pipelines, along with outward-facing engineering and ecosystem growth. Shehzan started at Cesium as a 3D software developer and brought his expertise to the 3D Tiling Pipeline and measurement analytics. He is a contributor to 3D Tiles and glTF and has a strong background in parallel programming and GPU computing, as well as open source.
Shehzan previously worked at ArrayFire on GPU computing, high-performance GPU libraries, and graphics applications. He also helped lead the effort to open source the ArrayFire library.
Shehzan teaches GPU Programming and Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated with an MSE in Computer Graphics and Game Technology in 2013.
He enjoys traveling, Formula 1, and playing soccer, tennis, and Settlers of Catan.
