Zaid Qureshi
Co-Founder at Uplift AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolZaid Qureshi is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 9 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across AI, cloud, and fintech. Currently co-founding Uplift AI in San Francisco, he focuses on making voice AI accessible for underserved languages while previously launching AWS Bedrock Guardrails and re-architecting Bedrock for parallel team development at Amazon. His background blends product-driven engineering—driving cost-saving proposals, microservice migrations, and UX metrics platforms—with hands-on startups like Learnly, a serverless learning platform that auto-generates courses using LLMs. He has repeatedly turned complex domain requirements into configurable platforms (notably at Paymentus) and built accessible healthcare and mobile money solutions earlier in his career. Zaid pairs formal AI study at the University of Toronto with practical delivery and mentorship, and brings a knack for translating ML research into customer-focused, cost-efficient production features.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma Engineering, Ontario Secondary School Diploma Engineering at Stephen Lewis Secondary SchoolArtificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at University of TorontoBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Software Engineering with Engineering Management, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Software Engineering with Engineering Management at University of Ottawa
English, Urdu, Punjabi
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Github Skills (40)
stock-data9
financial-data9
yahoo-finance9
yahoo9
yahoo-finance-api9
csv9
fen9
python8
api8
chess8
data-set8
vba7
finance7
pandas7
admob6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zq99/data-access-layer-vba-sql-server
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:33 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
zq99/mvc-design-pattern-in-excel-vba
Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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