# Belal Taher

> Software Engineer III at GitHub

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/belal

I'm currently a full-time engineer looking to broaden my professional network in the fields of Computer Science and Data Science. I am primarily interested in machine learning and how it can be used to improve education and mental health. I'm currently focusing on learning more about natural-language processing and image processing but aim to reach a stronger understanding of machine learning as a whole.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer III @ GitHub
Jan 2022 – Present | New York, New York, United States
GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

### Software Engineer II @ GitHub
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ GitHub
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, California
• Worked as a Software Engineering Intern for Google's Publisher Quality Team
• Engineered and integrated signals from manual URL reviews & flagging rules into a deep neural network
• The deep neural network was one that attempted to predict if a certain site was safe to host ads on based on Google AdSense policies
• Through experimentation and data analysis, I was able to increase the area under the Precision-Recall curve (used as a metric for performance) from 0.285 - 0.354
• Constructed, unit-tested, and integration-tested a pipeline to reformat manual URL reviews such that they could be easily joined to one of Google Ads' central data structures; this data structure in particular is used for monitoring publisher behavior and content

### Curriculum Developer @ The Coding School
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• codeConnects - an initiative by The Coding School - is an online platform that offers one-on-one computer science instruction to underrepresented middle and high school students by pairing each student with a professional software engineer or university student majoring in computer science
• Created lesson plans for git usage, arithmetic & logical operations, conditions & control flow, loops & iterative thinking (including basic recursion), and function types & use cases

### Engineering Intern @ 1Huddle
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Newark, New Jersey
• 1HUDDLE is a B2B SaaS company, funded by 500 Startups and Newark Venture Partners, that gamifies employee training
• Offers an enterprise-based mobile training platform that allows employees to conveniently train anytime, anywhere
• Communicated with 1HUDDLE's back-end development team regarding drawing up extensive wire-frames for future features, deployed cold outreach ad campaigns that utilized growth marketing techniques to add leads to the sales pipeline, and developed landing pages to capture new leads

### Peer Tutor @ Duke University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
• Chosen as a peer tutor for Computer Science 201: Data Structures & Algorithms (CS 201) through university's peer tutoring program because I displayed proficiency while enrolled in the class
• Assigned 3 students to help develop a proficiency in Java
• All assigned students improved by at least a letter grade by the end of the semester

### Teaching Assistant @ Duke University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
• Chosen as a teaching assistant for Intro to Engineering: Computational Methods (EGR 103) because I displayed proficiency when enrolled in the class
• Assigned a group of students to help develop a proficiency in MATLAB and LaTeX
• All assigned students finished the class with at least a 93/100
• Held office hours for any of the 200+ students enrolled in the class to come to


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) & Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical/Computer Engineering & Computer Science
Duke University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
UCL
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017

### Herricks High School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/belal-taher8

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Last updated: 2026-03-23