Taq Karim
Sr. Director, Engineering at Peloton Interactive
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaq Karim is a senior engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling high-traffic API platforms, currently overseeing Leaderboard, Metrics+Messaging, API Internal and Workout Journey teams at Peloton. He leads services that handle over 90% of Peloton API traffic, prioritizing performance, availability, and operational excellence across distributed systems. His career blends hands-on engineering and management—from frontline frontend roles to principal and director positions—across startups and large firms like Oracle and Place Exchange. Based in New York, he also teaches as an adjunct professor and Distinguished Faculty member, bringing classroom rigor to team mentorship and hiring. Collected experience across product, platform, and demand teams gives him a practical knack for turning ambitious product experiences into reliable, scalable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtStuyvesant High School
Github Skills (74)
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programming-language9
python9
duplicates9
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literals8
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ttk8
bootstrap8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mottaquikarim/PrayerApp
May 2018 - Apr 2020
Simple app that returns times to pray based on lat, lng and timestamp.
Contributions:33 PRs, 49 pushes, 33 branches in 1 year 11 months
returnslattimestimestampsimple-app
mottaquikarim/dev
Jan 2021 - Jul 2024
devblog
Contributions:4 PRs, 230 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 6 months
reactdevblog
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