Qasim Wani
Member Of Technical Staff at Advex AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolQasim Wani is a pragmatic machine learning engineer and founder with 7 years of experience building high-impact AI products and infrastructure from Silicon Valley startups to research labs. He co-founded and scaled Advex AI as CTO—raising $4M, hiring cross-disciplinary teams, and delivering a data engine that drove seven-figure ARR and up to 150% model improvements for Fortune 500 clients. Qasim also created LeetHub, a top-5 trending JavaScript repo used tens of millions of times and powering a large public dataset of 2.3M prompt-to-code solutions, and has shipped open-source tools with 100K+ and 50M+ usages. His background blends hands-on research (self-supervised learning, diffusion, VLMs, RL) with product and engineering leadership, and he’s known for rapid prototyping—launching an MVP in eight hours and turning research into production wins. Based in San Francisco, he currently works on interpretability, multimodal systems, and agents at xAI while advising and investing in early-stage AI ventures.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
google-chrome-extension10
javascript10
chrome-extension10
oauth8
chrome8
android-studio6
networkx6
fragment6
android6
android-fragments6
loops6
python6
numpy6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
QasimWani/LeetHub
Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
Automatically sync your leetcode solutions to your github account - top 5 trending GitHub repository
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 190 commits, 76 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Qasim primarily contributed to the front-end development of the LeetHub Chrome extension. They focused on the initial design and layout of the popup interface, including the authentication, hook, and commit modes. The commits demonstrate the implementation of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create the user interface and integrate it with semantic-ui, alongside initial OAuth2 implementation.
leetcodesyncjavascriptaccountleetcode-solutions
QasimWani/off-policy-evaluation
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:113 commits, 41 pushes in 2 months
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