Uzair Aftab
Founder And Partner at Polymath
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolUzair Aftab is a founder and software engineer based in Oslo with 7 years of experience building AI-first products, developer tooling, and backend systems. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing to popular open-source projects like LunarVim—with startup leadership, founding ventures such as Polymath, StormWater.AI and co-founding RegnskapGPT where he built the V1 agent layer and applied decomposition prompting to improve RAG accuracy. While completing a Master’s in Data Science at NMBU he mentored students at Eik Lab, ran workshops and maintained compute infrastructure, reflecting a strong educator mindset alongside product delivery. Comfortable across TypeScript, Rust, and LLM-backed backends, he bridges research-minded algorithmic work with pragmatic system integration.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
NanoDegree, AWS Machine Learning Foundation 2022, Pass, NanoDegree, AWS Machine Learning Foundation 2022, Pass at UdacityMaster of Technology - MTech, Data Science, Master of Technology - MTech, Data Science at NMBU - Norwegian University of Life SciencesStudiespesialisering, Studiespesialisering at Sørumsand Secondary School
Github Skills (5)
vi10
neovim10
vim10
lua10
rust7
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
LunarVim/LunarVim
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
🌙 LunarVim is an IDE layer for Neovim. Completely free and community driven.
Role in this project:
Developer
DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Uzair primarily focused on enhancing the Neovim configuration of LunarVim by addressing issues and improving the setup. They fixed formatting issues within Lua configuration files, and rewrote parameter values for better functionality. Further contributions include correcting typos, adding parameters for Rust formatting, and addressing edition-related issues, showcasing their understanding of the tooling. The user also updated various telescope plugins.
lintersneovim-luavimneovim-configneovim
AstroNvim/astrocommunity-cli
Jun 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:6 releases, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 1 year 1 month
astrocommunityastronvimastrovimclilazynvim
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