Summary
Mahbod Sabbaghi is a founder and product-minded software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building scalable platforms, growth functions, and ML-driven products across startups and government. As Co-Founder of The Intelligent Search Company he’s focused on building foundational models that turn catalogs and web signals into domain experts powering search, and is actively hiring founding ML engineers. He’s shipped full-stack systems for thousands of users—from an RCAF platform at Canada’s Department of National Defence to real-time infrastructure tools at Wish—while driving test, UX, and performance improvements that delivered measurable user growth. Comfortable at the intersection of product, growth, and engineering, he has led GTM strategy, SEO, and top-of-funnel programs in addition to technical leadership roles. Early organizer and technical lead of large youth hackathons and contributor to multiple product teams, he combines practical systems design with strong stakeholder and team-building skills. Based in Toronto with a dual background in computer science and business, he pairs startup grit with multidisciplinary leadership.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Port Credit Secondary School
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Business Administration and Management General at Lazaridis School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University
Bachelor of Computer Science - BCS Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science - BCS Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Persian, English