Shehzad Akbar
AI Program Lead at Wellcome Leap
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolShehzad Akbar is an AI Program Lead and product-focused technical leader with nearly a decade of experience helping brands like Bose, Mozilla and Ford bring customer-facing products to market and scale teams around activation, engagement and retention metrics. He blends hands-on technical product management—API/SDK design, analytics instrumentation and hypothesis-driven A/B testing—with strategic roadmapping to align product, design and engineering for measurable growth. His background spans startups and consultancy (Thoughtworks, Connected/Fusebit, Clerk) where he shipped paid consumer products and in-vehicle platforms, and led cross-functional teams to rapid prototyping and global launches. Based in Toronto, he pairs a data-driven mindset (economics/statistics grounding) with an entrepreneurial streak from early roles running national programs and building payments-enabled platforms. Notably, he moves between deep technical implementation and product marketing, owning post-launch activation through email, in-product and social channels to close the loop on outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
CTEMaster of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Master of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Stephen J. R. Smith Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Queen's UniversityAl KhubairatBachelor of Science - BS, Double Major in Economics and Political Science, Minor in Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Double Major in Economics and Political Science, Minor in Statistics at University of TorontoMaster of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Master of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Smith School of Business at Queen's University
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Github Skills (30)
remix-run10
authentication10
jwt-authentication10
remix10
redwoodjs10
jwt10
gatsbyjs10
nodejs10
clerk10
tanstack10
auth10
hasura9
javascript9
nextjs9
nuxt9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
msakbar/msakbar.github.io
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:50 pushes in 8 months
fusebit/marketplace
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Fusebit Marketplace components
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 months
marketplacedefi
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