Faisal Abid
Innovator In Residence
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFaisal Abid is an AI-native entrepreneur and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling machine learning-driven products and companies from Toronto. Currently Innovator in Residence at a venture studio and Head of Artificial Intelligence at TELUS Digital, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic company building, having founded startups, led AI teams, and served on boards. He has a track record of growing teams and revenue—scaling Bitstrapped from 3 to 20 people and unlocking six-figure sales—and has led complex cloud migrations and ML infrastructure efforts in production. A Google Developer Expert and long-time contractor for Google, he contributes to prominent open-source projects such as the Flutter website where he implemented CI/CD and front-end improvements. His background spans mobile platform internals to full-stack ML systems, and he quietly combines product intuition with deployment-grade DevOps skills that keep ambitious AI products running in production.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering at McMaster UniversityEmily Carr Public SchoolHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at West Hill Collegiate Institute
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
website-development10
flutter-apps10
travis-ci10
cicd10
flutter-game10
dart10
website-design10
firebase10
flutter10
google-cloud-functions9
firebase-cloud-functions9
azure-functions9
ibm-cloud-functions9
css8
database6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
flutter/website
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Flutter documentation web site
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Front-end Developer
DevOps Engineer & Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 21 PRs, 117 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Faisal was heavily involved in setting up and maintaining the deployment pipeline for the Flutter website, primarily focused on integrating Firebase and cloud functions. They modified the Travis CI configuration and the Dart-based deployment scripts to support staging environments and continuous deployment. Additionally, they contributed to the front-end development by creating the widget catalog page and modifying the layout using CSS.
flutterdartweb-site
FaisalAbid/segment-analytics-flutter
May 2017 - May 2019
Segment.com wrapper for Flutter
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years
analyticsdartmixpanelflutter-pluginflutter-widget
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