Laith Hasanian
Co-founder & CTO at TUFANY.ai
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLaith Hasanian is a founder and senior engineering leader with nine years of experience building production AI and privacy-first messaging systems in the San Francisco Bay Area. As Co-founder & CTO of TUFANY.ai he’s focused on applying large-language models to help independent journalists navigate and synthesize long-form content, drawing on hands-on work launching meta.ai and internal AutoML platforms at Meta. His engineering career spans product-critical systems—from Instagram Ads used by over a billion users to end-to-end encryption across Messenger, Instagram Direct, and WhatsApp—and includes measurable impact like a 72% reduction in ML training failures. He also brings teaching experience as a Visiting Professor, helping bridge industry practice and computer science curricula. Known for shipping across mobile, backend, and ML infra, he combines product instincts with low-level technical chops gained from early internships in systems and simulation. Laith balances startup grit with enterprise-scale reliability, making him adept at turning ambitious AI research into practical, deployable products.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Virginia
English, Arabic, Spanish
Github Skills (25)
python10
acceleration10
machine-learning10
numpy10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
gpu10
autograd10
neural-network10
tensor10
gpu-acceleration10
pytorch7
chrome-extension7
firefox-addon6
chrome5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
laithhas/adventOfCode
Dec 2021 - Sep 2024
My solutions to the AdventOfCode — an annual, fun, holiday-themed set of coding challenges which started in 2015.
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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laithhas/fly_db_demo
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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