Hi, I'm Ibrahim 👋
Software Engineer turned Entrepreneur. I love building things and helping people. Very active on Twitter.
About
At the end of 2022, I quit my job as a software engineer to go fulltime into building and scaling my own SaaS businesses. In the past, I pursued a double degree in computer science and business, interned at big tech companies in Silicon Valley, and competed in over 21 hackathons for fun. I also had the pleasure of being a part of the first ever in-person cohort of buildspace called buildspace sf1.
Work Experience
Atomic Finance
May 2021 - Oct 2022Bitcoin Protocol Engineer
Implemented the Bitcoin discreet log contract (DLC) protocol specifications as an open source Typescript SDK. Dockerized all microservices and setup production kubernetes cluster. Architected a data lake using AWS S3 and Athena for historical backtesting of bitcoin trading strategies. Built a mobile app using react native and typescript.
Shopify
January 2021 - April 2021Software Engineer
Implemented a custom Kubernetes controller in Go to automate the deployment of MySQL and ProxySQL custom resources in order to enable 2,000+ internal developers to instantly deploy their app databases to production. Wrote several scripts in Go to automate MySQL database failovers while maintaining master-slave replication topologies and keeping Zookeeper nodes consistent with changes.
Nvidia
January 2020 - April 2020Software Engineer
Architected and wrote the entire MVP of the GeForce Now Cloud Gaming internal admin and A/B testing dashboard using React, Redux, TypeScript, and Python.
Splunk
January 2019 - April 2019Software Engineer
Co-developed a prototype iOS app with another intern in Swift for the new Splunk Phantom security orchestration product (later publicly demoed and launched at .conf annual conference in Las Vegas). Implemented a realtime service for the iOS app in Django (Python) and C++; serialized data using protobufs transmitted over gRPC resulting in an approximate 500% increase in data throughput.
Lime
January 2018 - April 2018Software Engineer
Proposed and implemented an internal ruby API for sending/receiving commands to scooters over LTE networks. Developed a fully automated bike firmware update system to handle asynchronous firmware updates of over 100,000+ scooters worldwide, and provide progress reports in real-time using React, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL and AWS EC2 saving hundreds of developer hours.
Education
Buildspace
2023 - 2024s3, s4, sf1, s5
University of Waterloo
2016 - 2021Bachelor's Degree of Computer Science (BCS)
Wilfrid Laurier University
2016 - 2021Bachelor's Degree of Business Administration (BBA)
Skills
Projects
I've worked on a variety of projects, from simple websites to complex web applications. Here are a few of my favorites.
Chat Collect
Jan 2024 - Feb 2024
With the release of the OpenAI GPT Store, I decided to build a SaaS which allows users to collect email addresses from their GPT users. This is a great way to build an audience and monetize your GPT API usage.
Magic UI
June 2023 - Present
Designed, developed and sold animated UI components for developers.
llm.report
April 2023 - September 2023
Developed an open-source logging and analytics platform for OpenAI: Log your ChatGPT API requests, analyze costs, and improve your prompts.
Automatic Chat
April 2023 - March 2024
Developed an AI Customer Support Chatbot which automatically responds to customer support tickets using the latest GPT models.
Hackathons
During my time in university, I attended 21+ hackathons. People from around the country would come together and build incredible things in 2-3 days. It was eye-opening to see the endless possibilities brought to life by a group of motivated and passionate individuals.
Hack Western 5
November 23rd - 25th, 2018
London, Ontario
Developed a mobile application which delivered bedtime stories to children using augmented reality.
Hack The North
September 14th - 16th, 2018
Waterloo, Ontario
Developed a mobile application which delivers university campus wide events in real time to all students.
FirstNet Public Safety Hackathon
March 23rd - 24th, 2018
San Francisco, California
Developed a mobile application which communicates a victim's medical data from inside an ambulance to doctors at hospital.
DeveloperWeek Hackathon
February 3rd - 4th, 2018
San Francisco, California
Developed a web application which aggregates social media data regarding cryptocurrencies and predicts future prices.
Get in Touch
Want to chat? Just shoot me a dm with a direct question on twitter and I'll respond whenever I can. I will ignore all soliciting.