Elham Islam
Chief Technology Officer at synnaxlabs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElham Islam is a technology leader and CTO with eight years of engineering experience building real-time, mission-critical systems from startup mission control software to flight software for Mars Sample Return. She co-founded Synnax to deliver modern operations tooling for advanced hardware and has applied that systems-thinking at JPL, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and in research-focused roles. Comfortable across embedded and cloud stacks, she brings hands-on development experience in flight and lasercom systems while guiding product and platform strategy. Based in San Francisco and a Y Combinator S24 alum, she blends deep academic training (B.S.E. in Computer Engineering, University of Michigan) with startup velocity. Colleagues describe her as equally at home debugging embedded avionics and shaping long-term technical roadmaps. An early chapter president and SHAD Fellow, she pairs technical rigor with a track record of leadership and community-building.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
S24, S24 at Y CombinatorB.S.E, Computer Engineering, B.S.E, Computer Engineering at University of Michigan12, 12 at Victoria Park Collegiate Institute
English, Bengali
Github Skills (16)
lit10
time-series10
distributed-systems10
visualization10
data-acquisition10
jstor10
hardware10
database10
large-scale9
scale9
lit-html9
go9
lit-element9
web-components9
embedded9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Lham42/Physics-EM-Vpython
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
HEPL-SmartGlasses/HEPL-FootBoard
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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