New York, NY
Email GitHub LinkedIn Basic version

Abdul Samad
Zaheer Khan

Founding Engineer · MS Computer Engineering, NYU

01About

I'm a founding engineer with an MS in Computer Engineering from NYU, specializing in AI systems, multi-agent architectures, and applied machine learning. I build production-grade AI — from fine-tuning LLMs to deploying autonomous agent systems that handle real-world logistics and data-processing problems.

Away from the keyboard: competitive contract bridge and poker, and an interest in strategy games.

02Education
New York University · MS, Computer Engineering

Coursework — Quantum Computing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer System Architecture, Network Security, Mathematics, Physics, Finance.

2023 – 2025
GPA 3.8 / 4.00
The National Institute of Engineering · BE, Computer Science

Coursework — Advanced Mathematics & Statistics, Advanced Algorithms, Parallel Programming, Formal Language & Automata Theory, Computer Networks.

2017 – 2021
GPA 9.00 / 10.00
03Experience
Founding Engineer · Starboard

Multi-agent systems with tool use that autonomously process shipment tracking, monitor carrier portals, and reconcile data across logistics platforms. Fine-tuned open-source LLMs for document parsing.

View details →
Oct 2025 – Present
Remote · New York
Research Intern · NYU, Center for Quantum Information Physics

Hybrid classical–quantum neural network estimating six-year lung-cancer risk from a single low-dose CT scan.

View details →
Jan – May 2025
New York
Software Development Intern · Tiny Archives

Built and scaled backend archival systems for organizations and individuals with Python, Django, and PostgreSQL.

View details →
Sept – Dec 2024
New York
Software Development Engineer I · Finflux

Built ELMS, an exposure and limit-management engine covering 35M+ customers, and resolved production issues in the core Loan Management System.

View details →
Nov 2022 – July 2023
Bangalore
04Projects
OpenSigmoidPersonal · 2025 –

Decentralized, end-to-end encrypted Web3 messaging with token-gated communities and in-chat crypto payments.

Go · React · PostgreSQL · WebSockets
View details →
chromeControlHackathon · 2025

MCP-compliant Chrome sidebar extension delivering real-time page analysis and contextual AI assistance across tabs.

TypeScript · React · MCP
View details →
Quantum-Classical NNNYU · 2025

Hybrid quantum-classical network predicting six-year lung-cancer risk from a single low-dose CT scan.

Qiskit · PyTorch · CT Imaging
View details →
SquarisReddit Devvit · 2025

Three procedurally-generated polycube packing puzzles spanning 2D tiling and 3D lattice modes.

React · TypeScript · Three.js
View details →
QubitQueryPersonal · 2025

Self-contained RAG assistant over lecture notes to make professors' office hours more productive.

LangChain · FAISS · OpenAI
View details →
ELMSFinflux · 2023

Enterprise exposure and limit management aggregating personal and transaction data for 35M+ customers.

Java 17 · Spring Boot · MySQL
View details →
Stock Direction PredictionNYU · 2024

Fine-tuned FinBERT and LLMs feeding a Random Forest to forecast GameStop's price direction.

FinBERT · Llama · Random Forest
View details →
05Writing
2026 · Independent

Coin-Flip Pricing in a Tournament-Winner Market

A paired-contract trade on the 2026 IPL champion.

The market priced the two finalists like a coin flip (0.75 combined) while the base rate for a top-two seed winning sat at 93.3%. A paired RCB + GT position on Kalshi captured the gap — positive expected value, returning ~27.7%.

Prediction Markets · Probability · Bayesian Inference · Expected Value
Read the paper (PDF)
View abstract →
06Hackathons
HackNYU

An Acorns alternative with far more control over risk appetite and investment types.

Kiro Hackathon

chromeControl, an MCP-compliant Chrome AI assistant (see Projects).

Reddit · Devvit

Squaris, a spatial packing puzzle game.

YQuantum

Attempted the BlueQubit problem of Peaked Circuits.

IMC Prosperity 3

Financial modelling for max profit — algorithmic and manual trading tracks.

Hackfinity

A RAG/LangChain chatbot helping students grasp hard-to-find topics.

07Beyond work

Bridge  Represented NYU in contract bridge — intercollege tournaments, scrimmages, and the North American Bridge Championships (Philadelphia, 2025).

Poker  Represented NYU at the Intercollegiate Poker Association annual tournament, 2025.

Clubs  Bridge & Spades, SASE, IEEE, soccer intramurals (5v5, 9v9).