Khalid Bashir Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Myant Inc. develops solutions that revolutionize the way we go about our daily lives. Myant’s smart textiles enable capturing body vitals which are streamed over BLE to Skiin Mobile app and processed for useful health metrics (https://myant.ca) • Mentor and lead software development team working on the Skiin Mobile App. Responsible for the team’s technical direction and software architecture• Collaboration with other departments at Myant including firmware, hardware, product management,… Show more Myant Inc. develops solutions that revolutionize the way we go about our daily lives. Myant’s smart textiles enable capturing body vitals which are streamed over BLE to Skiin Mobile app and processed for useful health metrics (https://myant.ca) • Mentor and lead software development team working on the Skiin Mobile App. Responsible for the team’s technical direction and software architecture• Collaboration with other departments at Myant including firmware, hardware, product management, UX, Data Science to create a refined product• Translation of product requirements and user stories into detailed technical specification • Provide expertise in technical analysis and solving technical issues during project delivery• Write skeleton code for the features to ensure developer’s implementation are as per best practices and design patterns. Also, actively involved in writing code for complex features• Implement and improve health algorithm in AWS backend in conjunction with Data Science Show less

AuditXPRT is an established UK based tech startup offering Artificial Intelligence solutions to transform regulatory compliance and audit. (https://www.ai-xprt.com)• AuditXPRT won Barclays Techstars award 2017, secured seed funding of 1 Million GBP in 2019 against market valuation of 10 Million GBP and today serves customer from leading global financial institutions including Barclays, KPMG and Cashback World• One of the key driving members of the startup team; also served as a board… Show more AuditXPRT is an established UK based tech startup offering Artificial Intelligence solutions to transform regulatory compliance and audit. (https://www.ai-xprt.com)• AuditXPRT won Barclays Techstars award 2017, secured seed funding of 1 Million GBP in 2019 against market valuation of 10 Million GBP and today serves customer from leading global financial institutions including Barclays, KPMG and Cashback World• One of the key driving members of the startup team; also served as a board member• Head of technology division responsible for the overall solution strategy and development• Design and execution of Machine and Deep Learning methods around Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing using Object Detection Networks, GANs, Seq2Seq and Transformer• Implementation of deep vision techniques for intelligent document parsing• Conceptualized and led the development of a system spanning Laravel PHP/MySQL web back end, HTML/JS/CSS front end and Python processing backbone (spacy, pytorch, fastai, sklearn) with MongoDB object storage Show less

Islamabad, Pakistan

UTS was a global provider of technology solutions ranging from Embedded software packages, iOS & android apps, mobility solutions and IT outsourcing partnerships• Co-Founded the technology startup in 2011 realizing the potential of talented IT human resource in Pakistan to serve customers across the globe• Technology lead for the Embedded Software development of a custom Voice Switching System hardware board with Audio switching components and Micro controllers• Developed strategic… Show more UTS was a global provider of technology solutions ranging from Embedded software packages, iOS & android apps, mobility solutions and IT outsourcing partnerships• Co-Founded the technology startup in 2011 realizing the potential of talented IT human resource in Pakistan to serve customers across the globe• Technology lead for the Embedded Software development of a custom Voice Switching System hardware board with Audio switching components and Micro controllers• Developed strategic partnership with a technology startup in UK (Paysay: https://paysay.co/) and delivered an overall Fintech solution stack including frontend (Javascript, HTML, CSS) and backend with REST APIs (Apache, MySQL, Laravel PHP) • Technology lead for the IT team with complete accountability of strategic direction and management of a team of up-to 20 software developers to deliver projects within budget and time• Contributed within Start-up community in Pakistan to provide mentoring and support• Additional technologies: JAVA, Android and iOS Application Development (ObjectiveC) Show less

London, United Kingdom

Instructor for courses including,- High Performance Computing- Image Processing- Further Networks and Operating systems- Logic and Discrete Structures- Computer Architecture Responsible for laboratory supervisionDeveloped supplementary course material and developed course web pageGuest Lecturer for High Performance Computing course on MPI and OpenMP

Pakistan

Embedded Software Engineer – AERO Isb, PK July 2002—Aug 2006• Design and Implementation of a system in C++ for doing real time image processing operations on video sequences to extract important events happening in the field of view• Embedded software development in C to meet real-time high throughput video transmission needs on the Texas Instrument DM642 digital media hardware board. Implemented the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) stack on DM642… Show more Embedded Software Engineer – AERO Isb, PK July 2002—Aug 2006• Design and Implementation of a system in C++ for doing real time image processing operations on video sequences to extract important events happening in the field of view• Embedded software development in C to meet real-time high throughput video transmission needs on the Texas Instrument DM642 digital media hardware board. Implemented the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) stack on DM642 • Developed an FPGA implementation for the Viterbi decoder in Verilog HDL Show less

Pakistan

Worked on the G.723 voice codec• Optimized the G.723 for proprietary 4 core processor (Media Engine 2(ME2)) using the ME2 assembly language.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Vision

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Engineering