Shariq Mobin
Forward Deployed Engineer at Modal
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolShariq Mobin is a Forward Deployed Engineer and founder with 12 years of experience building real-world ML and audio systems that bridge neuroscience, acoustics, and embedded firmware. He founded AudioFocus (YC-backed and NIA‑funded) to tackle hearing-aid adherence, inventing a patented approach to the cocktail party problem and building an acoustic ray-tracing pipeline that produced massive synthetic BRIR datasets for training models. At Modal he now applies that expertise to LLM inference, TTS, diffusion, protein folding, and synthetic-data generation, while retaining hands-on firmware and C++ real-time audio experience from deploying models on embedded hearing-aid hardware. Trained as a PhD neuroscientist at UC Berkeley, he combines rigorous theory-driven research with product-focused engineering and clinical collaboration across Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and UoP. Notably, he has scaled GPU-driven data generation and on-device pipelines—an uncommon blend of large-scale cloud ML and low-latency embedded systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Neuroscience at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (28)
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
audio9
music9
oboe9
c-library8
serverless8
android8
gpu8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ShariqM/Learning
Feb 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:159 commits in 4 months
ShariqM/nnbird
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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