Summary
Mehmood Zaf is a founder and engineering leader who builds AI systems and infrastructure that operate reliably at internet scale, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO at Daysaver and Engineering Manager at Snap. He led My AI to 150M+ users and billions of LLM-backed messages, drove AR Spectacles platform infrastructure, and built ML ranking and serving systems that increased ads revenue tenfold. His work spans backend messaging, memory, RAG, compliance, and computer vision infrastructure, and is supported by multiple patents in automation and AR optimization. A 12-year veteran of high-scale systems, he cut his teeth on ads and distributed services at Quantcast and recommendation platforms at Digitas. Now focused on applying proven internet-scale ML and agent patterns to proptech, he’s comfortable moving from research concepts to production-grade services. Based in San Francisco, he’s open to connections on infrastructure-heavy AI, applied agent systems, and next-gen proptech opportunities.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering at Bharathiar University
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Harvard Extension School