Raiyan Sayeed
Founder at Cordage
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRaiyan Sayeed is a Forward Deployed AI Engineer and University of Waterloo computer science student with nine years of hands-on experience building backend, distributed, and embedded systems across industries from FinTech and cloud services to defense and hardware. He has launched production tooling at Amazon and Relay Financial, optimized APIs and integrated LLMs at Uncountable, and shipped firmware and Wi‑Fi/back-end features for hardware products at Formlabs. As a founder and co‑founder of early startups, he pairs product-first thinking with low-level engineering, moving quickly from prototype to deployed microservices. Beyond core engineering, Raiyan has led large student hackathons and mentored youth sports teams, reflecting a knack for organizing cross-functional teams and communicating complex ideas to diverse audiences. An atypical strength is his blend of mission-critical embedded work and modern LLM integrations, enabling him to bridge physical products and AI-enabled cloud systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Westdale Secondary SchoolBachelor's degree Honours Computer Science Coop, Bachelor's degree Honours Computer Science Coop at University of Waterloo
English, Bengali
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (140)
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webkit9
safari9
javascript9
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rpg9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DoctaRay/CompSci12
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 105 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
raiyansayeed/WSS_Zombies
Jan 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:12 pushes in 2 years
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