Summary
Atif Mahmud is a Deep Learning Research Engineer and University of Waterloo software engineering student with a decade of industry and entrepreneurial experience spanning Huawei, Thomson Reuters, IBM, and a startup that reached the MIT LaunchX finals. He blends hands-on research in learned discovery of data constraints, model compression, and on-device inference with applied work in NLP, recurrent models for geoscience, and financial modeling. A founder and research group administrator (gaggle.tech), he is passionate about using information-era tools to solve infrastructural and financial challenges in developing nations. Comfortable bridging academic research and production systems, he advocates for democratized cybersecurity and peer-to-peer approaches while pursuing scalable, low-resource ML solutions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Waterloo Collegiate Institute
Middle School, Middle School at Centennial Public School
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of Waterloo
Arabic, Bengali, French, English