Saif Abid
Chief Technology Officer at Lemonaide Music
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.
11 years of coding experience
3 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 (61)
google-cloud-platform9
spanner9
bigtable9
vault9
google-cloud9
api-gateway9
google-cloud-storage9
google-cloud-spanner9
apache-beam8
service-discovery8
google-cloud-dataflow8
infrastructure8
gcp8
bigquery8
kubernetes8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lemonaid-ai/lemonaide-desktop
Jul 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:23 releases in 1 year 4 months
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