Ishtiyaque Ahmad
Co-founder CTO at DataUnite, Inc.
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIshtiyaque Ahmad is a Co-founder and CTO with a decade of software and research experience, currently finishing a PhD in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara and serving as an Assistant Professor at UC Santa Cruz. His work focuses on building scalable systems that provide strong user privacy, blending academic rigor with practical engineering from internships at Microsoft to founding a startup, DataUnite. He brings hands-on expertise across research, teaching, and product development—having transitioned from lecturing and consulting roles in Bangladesh to leading research projects in the U.S. As an academic-founder he uniquely bridges theory and production, turning privacy-preserving system designs into deployable solutions. Colleagues describe him as someone who reliably translates complex distributed-systems research into actionable architecture and code.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary Certificate, Higher Secondary Certificate at Mirzapur Cadet CollegePhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of California, Santa BarbaraBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science and Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Bengali, English
Github Skills (12)
sdk7
tee7
sgx6
enclave6
confidential-computing5
trusted-execution-environment4
dfinity4
python3
cryptography3
scaling2
inference2
rust1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ishtiyaque/Coeus_artifact
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:42 commits, 36 pushes in 28 days
ishtiyaque/Addra
May 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 comment in 11 months
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