Saif Abid
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSaif Abid is a serial entrepreneur and technology leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling AI-first products and teams. As CTO of Bitstrapped (acquired by TELUS) he architected production AI solutions across IoT, fintech, and healthcare while growing engineering from 5 to 100 and speaking at Google NEXT on agentic systems. He also served as Chief Architect at Lemonaide (acquired by BeatStars), designing scalable, responsible AI for artist communities, and co-founded multiple startups including Inkrement and Goodapi. Saif blends hands-on machine learning and systems design from roles at ecobee and Wattpad with academic roots in computer engineering from the University of Toronto. Beyond tech, he runs a social enterprise that has planted over 3.5 million mangroves and funded large-scale ocean-bound plastic removal across Southeast Asia. He’s known for moving cutting-edge ML research into production-grade, ethically-minded services that serve diverse industries.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
English
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Github Skills (52)
bigtable9
vault9
apache-beam8
service-discovery8
google-cloud-spanner8
google-cloud-storage8
api-gateway8
google-cloud-dataflow8
bigquery8
dataflow7
data-center7
kubernetes7
service-mesh7
consul7
strongly-typed7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
saifabid/saifabid
Jul 2020 - Jan 2026
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
bitstrapped/airbyte
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Airbyte is the go-sdk/cdk to help build connectors quickly in go. This package abstracts away much of the "protocol" away from the user and lets them focus on biz logic. It focuses on developer efficiency and tries to be strongly typed as much as possible to help dev's move fast without mistakes
Contributions:1 release, 10 reviews, 11 commits in 1 month
airbytegostrongly-typed
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