Ayman Nadeem
Co-Founder at Nuanced, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAyman Nadeem is a founder and engineer with a decade of experience building developer-facing infrastructure and productized AI systems from the GitHub platform to startups in San Francisco. As Co-Founder and CEO of Nuanced (YC W24) he leads efforts to detect AI-generated imagery for marketplaces, dating apps, and publishers, drawing on his prior work building spam, abuse and MLOps tooling on GitHub’s Platform Health team. He was a core contributor to GitHub’s Semantic project, implementing language-aware parsing and AST work in Haskell/Rust/Python that powers cross-language code analysis. Comfortable shipping full-stack features earlier in his career, he blends product intuition from roles at Khan Academy and Microsoft with deep systems and backend engineering chops. Colleagues would note he pairs academic rigor (MSc, Oxford) with pragmatic open-source contributions that quietly underpin large-scale developer tools.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of OxfordBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Systems Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (8)
javas10
code-analysis10
tree-sitter10
text-parsing10
parsing10
java10
abstract-syntax-tree10
python3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
github/semantic
Oct 2017 - Jun 2020
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 1218 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ayman primarily worked on implementing core functionality related to parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code, particularly within the context of the semantic project. Their contributions involved adding new language-specific features, such as implementing instances for Java and modifying the AST, specifically around class and method declarations. The user also made adjustments to the project's core parsing methodologies, including refinements to the table of contents and improvements to the handling of code comments.
analyzingcomparingpythonparsinglanguages
woke-shopper/woke-shopper.github.io
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
Helping users support ethical companies.
Contributions:37 commits, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
ethical
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