Summary
Shehaaz Saif is an experienced product and engineering leader with 13 years building platform-scale systems and AI products, currently driving Expedia Group’s AI Evaluation Framework and trip personalization initiatives. He led the Trips Platform from 0→30 internal API clients, scaling personalized travel experiences and trip collaboration that boosted conversion and repeat rates, and more recently built an LLM-as-a-Judge system to standardize GenAI quality. As an angel investor and founder-operator, he helps grow API.Market (6M monthly API calls, 2,000+ developers) and backs startups in AI, APIs, and infrastructure including Noveum’s model A/B testing and auto-optimization tools. Grounded in software engineering with a BSc from McGill and a background in wearable hackathons and clinical research tooling, he blends hands-on backend experience with product strategy and a knack for operationalizing AI quality at scale.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering (B.Sc), Minor Psychology (B.Sc), Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering (B.Sc), Minor Psychology (B.Sc) at McGill University
French