Suhail Idrees
Founder at FireCut AI
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSuhail Idrees is an entrepreneur and engineer with 10 years' experience blending product design and strategy, currently building FireCut, an AI video-editing startup partnered with creator Ali Abdaal to automate captions, B-roll, chaptering and raw footage cleanup. He began his career at Apple learning hands-on product design for MacBook hardware, then sharpened strategic and operational expertise at Bain & Company in London, delivering growth, cost transformation and operating-model work for large clients. Suhail combines deep technical curiosity from a Cambridge/MIT engineering background with practical delivery skills across prototyping, manufacturing and strategy execution. Comfortable switching between code, design and business, he’s focused on speeding creators’ workflows—an unusual founder profile that bridges hardware-grade engineering discipline with boutique consulting rigor. Often nomading, he remains London-based and open to conversations about product-led AI tooling and creator workflows.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Cambridge-MIT Exchange, Mechanical Engineering, Cambridge-MIT Exchange, Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of CambridgeHigh School, Pre-Engineering, High School, Pre-Engineering at Aitchison College
Github Skills (4)
scraper6
uploader4
youtube4
javascript2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
suhail93/bloodbank
Nov 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:353 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
suhailidrees/bullets_to_table
Jun 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 11 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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