Mohammed Ridwan
Co-Founder & CEO at Angel Investor
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMohammed Ridwan is a product-led founder and CEO with a decade of experience building data-driven consumer products and platforms, currently scaling Pluto from San Francisco while based in Toronto. He blends engineering roots—from software and platform roles at Shopify and Cash App—to strategic product leadership and early-stage investing as an active angel investor. His background spans hardware research and applied engineering at BlackBerry and the University of Waterloo, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary fluency between physical systems and cloud-native software. At Cash App he focused on product and strategy, and at Shopify he helped build data infrastructure and platform capabilities that informed his approach to scalable product design. Known for turning research-grade curiosity into practical product outcomes, he combines technical depth with a founder’s appetite for risk and experimentation.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate with Distinction Electrical and Computer Engineering, Graduate with Distinction Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic
Github Skills (100)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mohammedri/ant_colony_java_TSP
Aug 2016 - Jul 2018
Bays29 Travelling Salesman Problem (with 29 cities) solution using Java and Ant Colony Optimization methods. This is using adaptive algorithms. If you want to learn more about it read the following paper: M. Dorigo & T. Stützle, Ant Colony Optimization, MIT Press, 2004 https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ant-colony-optimization
Contributions:7 PRs, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 10 months
optimization-methodsadaptivepresstravellinglogistics
mohammedri/personal-site
Dec 2019 - Jul 2021
www.mohammedri.com
Contributions:1 PR, 44 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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