Syed Baligh
Senior Staff Software Engineer Technical Lead AI Team at IT Verticals Inc
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSyed Baligh is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and AI technical lead based in San Francisco with over a decade of experience designing and shipping scalable web, real-time, and AI-driven systems. He combines deep hands-on expertise in data engineering, LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and MLOps—deploying models and inference pipelines on AWS SageMaker—while also shaping engineering culture and mentoring teams. His career at Kiddom spans building real-time backends, migrating monoliths to Go microservices, and instrumenting observability for production-scale services. As a founder and CTO he built a multimodal AI meeting assistant, showing a strong product-oriented approach to AI, and he consults on cloud-native architectures using Terraform, Kubernetes, and modern stacks. Known for bridging practical engineering with research curiosity, he pursues data science through competitions and applies that learning to deliver impactful, production-ready AI products.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Matriculation Computer Science, Matriculation Computer Science at Bahria Cadet CollegeMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Institute of Business AdministrationUniversity of Karachi
Urdu, English
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Github Skills (17)
resque8
android6
facebook6
cordova6
go5
twilio4
google3
webrtc3
javascript2
asynchronous2
data-extraction2
ai2
llama1
large-language-models1
llm1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jazibjohar/go-resque
Aug 2016 - May 2023
Simple Resque queue client for Go
Contributions:1 release, 7 PRs, 13 pushes in 6 years 9 months
goresque
jazibjohar/intercom-go
Jun 2017 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 6 months
golangintercom
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