Faizan khan
Chief Firefighter at slashML
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolFaizan Khan is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience building infrastructure, analytics, and production ML systems from startups to research labs. He was the third engineer at YC-backed SafetyWing and later contributed to Dash Enterprise at Plotly, where he implemented shared memory, custom operators and optimized pandas/vaex query backends across Kubernetes clusters. Faizan blends research and product instincts—his McGill thesis work on program synthesis and TensorFlow attention layers complements practical projects like fcomplexity.com, a language-agnostic coding platform he built and gamified. He now leads SlashML as “Chief Firefighter,” shipping privacy-preserving AI deployments that keep customer data inside their VPCs, and runs DocsAlot while continuing to explore software analytics. Comfortable across Python, Go, TypeScript, C/C++ and cloud-native tooling, he has a knack for turning complex distributed problems into pragmatic, automatable solutions. An uncommon thread through his career is shipping developer-facing tooling and platforms that reduce operational load while exposing powerful capabilities to teams.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at GIKIMaster's degree (thesis) Software Engineering, Master's degree (thesis) Software Engineering at McGill University
Github Skills (171)
plotly-dash10
dashboard10
python10
charting10
self-attention10
no-javascript10
linter10
flask10
representation-learning10
javascript10
sdk10
azure10
data-visualization10
gpt10
julia10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
eff-kay/solidity-nicad
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
Nicad clone detector with support for solidty smart contracts I.e. file-extraction, function-extraction, contract-extraction and block-extraction.
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 17 commits in 9 months
extractionethereumcontractdetectorsolidity
david-istvan/ethereum-cloning-tse-replication-package
May 2022 - Aug 2024
Replication package for the paper "Code Cloning in Smart Contracts on the Ethereum Platform: An Extended Replication Study".
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 3 months
paper-codeextendedethereumanalysisdata-package
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