Yasser Elsayed
Founding Engineer at 1001 AI
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYasser Elsayed is a Carnegie Mellon–trained founding engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack, production-grade systems from backend services to intuitive front-end dashboards. He has led engineering and CTO roles at fast-growing startups, shipping scalable features such as high-throughput notification systems, geofencing and timesheet engines, and a game CMS with gRPC integrations and anti-cheat telemetry. Comfortable across Python, TypeScript/React/Next.js, .NET and cloud infrastructure, he focuses on measurable performance improvements—e.g., cutting response times from 600ms to 200ms and achieving consistent 100ms dashboard responses. Now based in New York, he combines product-oriented thinking with hands-on delivery as a founding engineer at AI-focused startups, and writes regularly about technology.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Arabic
Github Skills (37)
translation9
json9
react-component9
django9
django-models9
media-keys8
react8
styled-components8
forms8
json-schema8
data-validation8
css7
python7
sliders7
nodejs6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
meddyco/duck-themes
Jul 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 months
yelsayed/yelsayed.github.io
Nov 2015 - Jun 2022
My personal website.
Contributions:10 commits, 51 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 8 months
reactnextjs
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