Summary
Zaki Rangwala is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building AI-driven products and scalable web systems, currently developing climate-smart risk analytics to reduce natural disaster exposure for insurers and homeowners. He has a track record of shipping end-to-end products—from engineering an acquired startup (PokerGPT) as CTO and co-founder to building LLM-powered growth agents and payment/verification systems. Comfortable across backend, cloud ops, and ML, Zaki blends practical engineering with product-minded design and a keen interest in AI/ML applied to real-world problems. His background spans health wearables, biotech analytics, and large-scale hackathon platforms, reflecting an ability to translate research and data into user-facing value. Notably, he pairs technical depth with entrepreneurial grit, repeatedly taking prototypes to acquisition or production.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science - BSc, Bachelor of Computer Science - BSc at Wilfrid Laurier University
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at Lazaridis School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at University of Waterloo
English, French, Hindi, Urdu