Summary
Samrah Syed is a product-minded software engineer with nine years of experience building and launching customer-centric products across salon, edtech, and retail verticals. She co-founded Pakistan.AI, growing an AI community that bridged academia and industry and led initiatives from workshops to research collaborations, which seeded her interest in product discovery and community-driven solutions. At Systems Limited and Get Licensed she combined hands-on engineering (Flask, Spring Boot, Postgres, Azure) with customer interviews, UX prototyping, and stakeholder management to onboard clients and iterate features based on usage metrics. More recently she completed a Product Management fellowship and is building a homeowner maintenance app that reflects her knack for turning grassroots user research into tangible products. Colleagues describe her as curious and pragmatic—equally comfortable debugging integrations as she is running customer visits or shaping go-to-market strategy. Based in Houston, she brings a rare blend of community leadership, technical execution, and product empathy to early-stage and enterprise initiatives.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
UScholars, UScholars at University of Houston
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering, A, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering, A at NED University of Engineering and Technology
G.P.A: 3.67, G.P.A: 3.67 at Cinco Ranch High School
English, Urdu, Spanish