2025 -
Kive - Gen AI
Head of Engineering. Building the AI brand engine. Making sure hypergrowth doesn't kill us.
Islahul
bio
I help ambitious teams build products and engineering organizations from early/zero traction to scale. I currently lead engineering and ship at Kive in Stockholm, Sweden.
timeline
2018 - 2025
Mavenoid - AI Customer Support
Joined as the second employee and helped reach product-market fit. Later led a remote cross-functional team focused on customer support automation using AI.
2015 - 2017
Vy Capital - VC
Analyst Programmer. Built the data analytics platform to analyze public companies and startups, and helped spin off Synaptic.com
2014 - 2015
TinyOwl - Food tech
Engineer. Built TinyOwl Homemade iOS and Android apps.
2013 - 2014
Fynd - Retail tech
Engineer. Built large in-store touchscreen apps aimed at improving product discovery, customer engagement, and sales.
2013
LurnQ.com - Edtech
Engineer. Built an assessment app.
2009 - 2013
IIT Bombay
BTech in Civil Engineering. This is where software engineering and product work started to pull harder than the degree itself.
principles
- [pending your principles]