Tariq Islam
Chief Pilot at SLT Aeronautics
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolTariq Islam is a technology leader and founder with 14 years of experience building scalable, high-throughput systems and leading cross-functional engineering teams. As CEO and Chief Pilot of SLT Aeronautics, he combines deep software expertise—spanning generative AI, distributed systems, low-latency backends and cloud infrastructure—with precision drone services like LiDAR mapping and photogrammetry. His background includes senior engineering and management roles at Intuit and SAP where he architected fault-tolerant data platforms, real-time event ingestion at scale, and platform migrations to Kubernetes and AWS. Tariq’s career blends hands-on system design (including ad exchanges and CDP infrastructures) with people leadership that drove multiple promotions and contractor-to-FTE conversions. A dual degree in Computer Science and Economics underpins his product-minded approach to technical strategy and business operations. Less obvious: he deliberately bridges physical and digital domains—turning drone-derived spatial data into software products that amplify both technical rigor and practical field outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of MinnesotaBA, Computer Science, Economics, BA, Computer Science, Economics at Macalester CollegeO-Levels, O-Levels at Oshwal High School
Spanish, English, Bengali, Swahili
Github Skills (54)
markdown10
speech-to-text10
user-friendly10
static-site-generator10
automatic-speech-recognition10
photogrammetry10
webservice10
openai-whisper10
transcription10
api-documentation10
api10
speech10
slate10
imagery10
maps10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sltaeronautics/WebODM
Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
User-friendly, commercial-grade software for processing aerial imagery. 🛩
Contributions:1 review, 10 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 months
tariqislam/Autumn
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 3 days
rapid-developmentautumninfrastructuredockerrapid
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