Summary
Salman Maqbool is a software development and AI consultant with a decade of experience building production-grade machine learning systems, mobile ML pipelines, and backend architectures. He has led end-to-end ML lifecycles at PackageX—optimizing on-device inference, improving model accuracy through targeted annotation, and shipping multimodal transformer and vision models across iOS and Android. As founder of psychiatrai he combined engineering and clinical evidence to deliver a WhatsApp-based CBT service for low-resource settings, and has a track record translating research into deployable digital mental health interventions. His background spans robotics research (MSc from NUST), publications in IEEE, and hands-on systems work from C++ simulation at CERN to cloud-native APIs using FastAPI, AWS Lambda, and GCP. A pragmatic engineering leader and former Scrum Master, he balances maintainable architecture with product-minded agility while mentoring teams and prioritizing user-centered solutions. He’s equally at home squeezing latency out of edge models as he is designing scalable, low-cost health tech for underserved populations.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School A-Levels, High School A-Levels at Beaconhouse School
Master’s Degree Robotics and Intelligent Machines Engineering, Master’s Degree Robotics and Intelligent Machines Engineering at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
English, Urdu, Punjabi, French