Sarmad Qadri is a product-focused engineering leader and founder with eight years of experience building developer and AI infrastructure across Microsoft, Meta, and his startup LastMile AI. He led teams at Facebook building ML model/feature authoring, lifecycle management, privacy and monitoring tools, and previously shipped large-scale developer experiences at Microsoft including a next-generation distributed build system and IntelliSense for massive repos. As Co-Founder and CEO of LastMile AI, he combines hands-on technical depth with product and operational leadership to move research-grade ML tooling toward production. His background in developer experience and build systems gives him a unique lens on developer productivity and scalable ML workflows. Based in New York with a Waterloo Computer Science degree, he’s known for turning complex infrastructure challenges into usable platforms that accelerate engineering teams. He also has a hacker’s instinct for “building cool things,” signaling an appetite for rapid prototyping alongside strategic product work.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BMath Computer Science, BMath Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Contributions:5 reviews, 125 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 months
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