Belal Taher
Software Engineer III at GitHub
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBelal Taher is a Software Engineer III based in New York with nine years of experience building production systems at major tech companies including GitHub, Microsoft, and Google. He focuses on machine learning applications—particularly NLP and image processing—with a special interest in using ML to improve education and mental health. At Google he improved a Deep Neural Network's precision-recall performance and built tested data pipelines, and at GitHub he has advanced through multiple engineering roles to his current position. Academically grounded with degrees from Duke and UCL, he also has a background in curriculum development and peer tutoring, reflecting a long-standing commitment to teaching and mentorship. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who blends research curiosity with reliable, test-driven delivery.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) & Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical/Computer Engineering & Computer Science, 3.4/4.0, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) & Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical/Computer Engineering & Computer Science, 3.4/4.0 at Duke University3.8/4.0, 3.8/4.0 at Herricks High SchoolUniversity College London
English, French, Urdu
Github Skills (18)
github-issues9
github8
backup8
google-chrome-extension6
duolingo6
hero5
classify5
github-enterprise5
chrome-extension4
google-chrome4
copilot4
marketplace3
vscode3
chrome3
jetbrains2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
belaltaher8/Republi-can-t-fool-me
Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
Creating a Google Chrome extension that uses a neural net to classify political articles.
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
politicalgoogle-chrome-extensionchromeduolingogoogle-chrome
belaltaher8/Space-Inv-Add-ers
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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