Anupom Syam is a seasoned software engineering leader and hands-on architect, currently guiding Gen AI initiatives as Senior Director of Engineering at FICO in Mountain View, California. With 16 years of experience across startups and big tech, he has built and led data and ML platforms at Evernote, Netflix, and Disney, and contributed to early web-scale projects at MIT Media Lab. He combines technical depth with entrepreneurial leadership as co-founder of Tackle (CEO 2021-2024) and AXAR AI, while continuing to guide strategy as a Tackle board member. His career spans roles from founding engineer at Sphuron to leading AI-powered infrastructure across large organizations, delivering scalable systems for decision support. He earned an MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois (4.0) and a BS from NSU, and is an alumnus of Y Combinator.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
W21, W21 at Y Combinator
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at University of Illinois
Contributions:1 release, 14 pushes, 1 tag in 2 days
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