FAIZAN
AHMED
Founder, Engineer, Educator
Favorite Moments
NYC Tour Meetup
Sajjaad and Farzy
NYC Meetup
My LinkedIn pic lol
NYC Office Meetup
NYC Office Meetup
Aidan Partnership
Meeting Tariq (our first investor) for the first time
St. Johns University Hackathon
SJU Graduation Day
EdTech Conference Setup
SJU Hackathon
Queens College Meetup
NYC Office Meetup
Visiting Headstarter's NYC Office for the first time
Pre Alif Demo Day
Alif Demo Day
Mt. Rainier Hike
Diablo Lake
Ferrari & McLaren Showcase
Robotics Outreach Event
Venture University Meetup
NYC Meetup with Ryan Russell
SJU Economics & Finance Club Meeting
Check out my Podcast
Listen to my conversation about building Headstarter, the early struggles, and advice for aspiring founders
Highlights
Grew Headstarter community to over 100k engineers from 130+ countries
Built multimodal AI agent to conduct software engineering interviews - over 60k completed sessions
Taught AI to over 1,000 students, hosted and judged 5+ hackathons
Built RAG framework to find the top candidates for startups from a pool of 100k+ engineers
Get to Know Me
Work
CURRENT
Co-Founder & Head of Machine Learning
Headstarter
Oct 2022 - Present
Lead all technical development & operations for the Headstarter platform and Residency program. Develop and refine the curriculum to help students break into tech through mentorship and project-based learning.
Business Intelligence Engineer Intern
Amazon
2022
Developed and deployed a two-fold machine learning model in AWS SageMaker using Python and Spark to identify the optimal customers for a marketing initiative, projected to increase profit by $80M - $100M.
Global Data Analyst Intern
Bloomberg
2021
Developed an interactive data visualization tool using Python to efficiently compare sets of equities and automate manual research.
