Summary
Haleeq Usman is a senior software engineer and founder with 14+ years building high-performance, cloud-native systems for startups and enterprises. He specializes in full-stack development, event-driven architectures, data streaming, and real-time AI/ML applications, and is currently building Live Pixie, a privacy-first AI analytics platform for eCommerce that combines a Big Data stack (Spark, Iceberg, Trino, Kafka) with advanced ML like LLMs and GNNs. Haleeq has repeatedly driven measurable impact—5× performance gains on an e-commerce platform, 20% higher engagement via frontend optimizations, and a 75% latency reduction on landing pages—while delivering HIPAA- and PCI-compliant solutions. He blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, mentoring teams and automating CI/CD and testing pipelines to improve developer productivity. Based in New York, he brings a builder’s mindset and a pragmatic focus on product impact, often delivering no-code experimentation and analytics tooling that empowers non-technical teams.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry at City University of New York City College
English, Polish