About
Career & Background
I'm a Software Engineer focused on applied AI and distributed systems. At TikTok I build complex, large-scale agentic platforms that serve over 100M requests a day. Before that I was the founding engineer at namshi.com, scaling it to $5M/day in GMV. Outside work, I'm a hobbyist photographer chasing the best landscapes and architectures, and a relentless foodie hunting down the best meal in every city I land in.
Python
Java
SQL
LLMs
Agents
MCP
Google Cloud
Docker
Kubernetes
Redis
Experience
Mar 2025— Oct 2026
Software Engineer (Applied AI)
- Led development of agent harnesses, orchestration, and evaluation on TikTok's AI coding agent platform, supporting long-running workflows at massive scale.
Aug 2021— Feb 2025
Founding Engineer, namshi.com
Dec 2023 — Feb 2025
- As the founding engineer for namshi.com (acquired for $330M), owned the end-to-end platform rewrite across search, catalog, indexing, orders, discounts, and after-sales domains, leading 10+ engineers and partnering with product, growth, and operations to design, build, and launch a platform supporting $5M/day in revenue.
Software Engineer 2
Feb 2023 — Nov 2023
- Sole engineer responsible for building high-throughput, low-latency core notifications platform from 0 to 1, handling 30M requests/day across multiple tenants.
Software Engineer
Aug 2021 — Jan 2023
- Built backend services for customer loyalty program including membership tiers, points tracking, and rewards catalog serving 1M+ active subscribers.
2020— 2021
Research Engineer
- Developed an interactive tool for Arabic Collections Online library to fix scanned Arabic text using Python and fine-tuned Stanford LLMs.
2020
Software Engineer
- Developed a GAN-based synthetic data generation tool that improved the accuracy of aircraft inspection models, saving $400K per year by reducing manual inspections.
Education
BSc, Computer Science & Applied Math
- GPA 3.94 / 4.00 — Magna Cum Laude, University Honors Scholar.
- Full-ride Merit Scholarship ($90k/year).
- Co-President, HackAD: served as liaison between students and faculty, devised the roadmap for each academic year, and organized international hackathons and workshops for 200+ students.