Taha Abbasi
Founder And CEO at Ask Florence
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolTaha Abbasi is a technical founder and CEO with two decades of experience building large-scale, secure software platforms for clients including Microsoft, Apple, National Geographic and NASA JPL. He combines hands-on engineering and executive leadership—previously as CTO/CSO at Ferrum Network where he authored the technical whitepaper and invented OmniChain Liquidity and OmniSwaps—to solve hard interoperability and capital-efficiency problems across heterogeneous environments. Motivated by personal experience navigating broken healthcare coverage, he founded AskFlorence to surface real ACA-subsidized prices in seconds and is scaling the product across 30 states. He has a proven track record of shipping high-impact systems quickly (from JPL mission tooling to a 6M-user beta) and saving millions through operational and vendor optimizations. Comfortable at the intersection of product, security, and strategy, he pairs design-thinking training from MIT Sloan with deep systems expertise. An avid explorer off-duty—33 countries and counting—he brings a readiness to tackle complex, human-centered problems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Design Thinking, Industrial and Product Design, Masters in Design Thinking, Industrial and Product Design at MIT Sloan Executive EducationBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Delaware Technical Community CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology at Community College of PhiladelphiaiOS and Web Development, Computer Science, iOS and Web Development, Computer Science at UdemyGraduate Certificate, Strategic Management, Graduate Certificate, Strategic Management at Harvard Extension SchooliOS, Android, and Web Development, Computer Science, iOS, Android, and Web Development, Computer Science at Treehouse
English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Spanish
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Github Skills (31)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ferrumnet/linear-release-engine
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:12 releases, 15 reviews, 55 commits in 4 months
ferrumnet/snap-hodl
Apr 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:10 releases, 3 reviews, 27 PRs in 11 months
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