Shahir Daya
Chief Product & Technology Officer at Zafin
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolShahir Daya is a seasoned technology and product executive with over three decades of experience in engineering and architecture, currently serving as Chief Product & Technology Officer at Zafin. He progressed through a long IBM career from software engineer to Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect, leading cloud, financial services, and business transformation initiatives at global scale. Shahir blends deep technical fluency in cloud and enterprise architecture with product leadership, translating complex regulatory and banking requirements into pragmatic platforms. Based in Toronto, he is known for guiding large transformation programs while keeping a hands-on perspective on engineering trade-offs. A University of Toronto-trained computer engineer, he brings rare continuity of perspective—having seen technologies evolve from legacy systems to modern cloud-native stacks—making him adept at bridging legacy innovations with future-facing product strategy.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering at University of TorontoO-level and A-level, O-level and A-level at Aga Khan Academy
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Github Skills (26)
backend10
keras9
metadata-management8
governance8
cloudant8
java8
data-governance7
onnx7
tensorflow7
deep-learning7
iot6
ibm-cloud6
mongodb5
data-engineering4
cassandra4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shahirdaya/onnx-tensorflow
May 2020 - Nov 2020
Tensorflow Backend for ONNX
Contributions:49 pushes, 26 branches in 6 months
deep-learningonnxbackendtensorflowkeras
shahirdaya/IBMCloudTrainingResources
Feb 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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