Rashid Khan
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at UNESCO
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolRashid Khan is a product-focused technologist and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building AI-driven conversational platforms as Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Yellow.ai, helping enterprises automate customer, employee, and vendor communications across chat, email, voice and apps. He blends hands-on engineering roots—contributions to open-source projects like astropy improving file handling—with product leadership that has driven measurable gains in NPS and cost-to-serve for customers. An author of practical developer books on chatbots and IoT, Rashid pairs technical depth in backend systems and IoT prototypes with a strong UX and monetization sensibility. Based in Abu Dhabi, he also engages in global AI policy through UNESCO’s Coalition for Linguistic Diversity in AI, underscoring his interest in inclusive, multilingual conversational experiences.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
dy/dx 2023 Organizational Leadership, dy/dx 2023 Organizational Leadership at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessSchool, School at International Indian School, RiyadhBachelor’s Degree Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science & Engineering at National Institute of Technology WarangalCBSE Grade 10, CBSE Grade 10 at Delhi Public School
Hindi, Urdu, Arabic
Github Skills (4)
file-handling10
astronomy10
astropy10
python10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
astropy/astropy
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Astronomy and astrophysics core library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Rashid primarily contributed to the `astropy/astropy` repository by updating and integrating the `configobj` library. Their work included updating the manifest, adding a new version of `configobj`, and deleting old files. They also added a download_file() method and a cached option for fits.open(), improving file handling and download functionality within the project.
astrologypythonscienceastrophysicsastrodynamics
rashoodkhan/personal-site
May 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 6 months
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