# Emmanuel Ahishakiye

> Software Engineer (OSS) @MemVerge | Prev Salesforce AI SWE Intern @Cendance | CS (AI) & Business @URochester

Location: Rochester, New York Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/emmanuelahishakiye

Emmanuel Ahishakiye is a junior at the University of Rochester studying Computer Science (AI Concentration) and Business Information Systems. He has built and contributed to platforms used by schools, teams, and organizations, including Foundly, a system that helps institutions manage and recover lost items through clear tools and organized workflows.

He also works on product and system engineering at MemVerge, focusing on improving the speed and reliability of large-scale data workflows. Emmanuel has experience across software engineering, data systems, and product development, working closely with teams in New York and other locations.

As a founder of Jackal Tech, Emmanuel has led small teams and grown them into structured groups of engineers, designers, and project contributors across different time zones. Over the past three years, he has worked with hundreds of people on tools that support operations, hiring, campus logistics, and everyday problems that need simple solutions.

He is comfortable writing code, planning product flows, and communicating direction across teams. His approach is straightforward: build with clarity, keep the user in mind, and move with purpose.

Emmanuel is focused on using technology to improve how institutions work, create opportunities, and support students and communities.

Motto: fast and happy teams = better products = happy users.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer (OSS) @ MemVerge
Jan 2025 – Present | Milpitas, California, United States
 Contribute to a production-level AI memory system, MemMachine, that improves contextual retrieval across long documents
and large-scale inference tasks by 30%.
 Build and maintain hybrid cache synchronization and persistence layers, reducing model latency by 25% and improving
throughput on distributed GPUs.
 Benchmark and optimize token recall efficiency, achieving 30% faster sequence reconstruction in evaluation pipelines.
 Resolve 12+ GitHub issues addressing caching, model alignment, and inference stability, and improve scalability through
collaborative PRs and AWS deployment automation.

### Founder @ Foundly, Inc.
Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
We are building Foundly, a centralized AI powered SaaS platform that modernizes how organizations manage and recover lost property. The platform is designed for institutional scale, built on a recurring revenue model, and targeting $4M+ across seed funding and ARR by 2027, positioning Foundly as a leading solution in this market.

### Founder & Managing Director @ Jackal Tech Ltd
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York

### Founder & CTO @ Jackal Tech Ltd
Jan 2019 – Jan 2025 | San Luis Obispo, California, United States

### Student Supervisor @ University of Rochester
Jan 2024 – Present | Rochester, New York, United States
Supervise daily operations at the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries service point, managing workflows across service desks and student teams. Train and mentor student assistants, oversee information systems for accuracy, and support IT service and database management to enhance the experience for students and faculty.

### Salesforce AI Software Engineer Intern @ Cendance Systems Inc
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York City Metropolitan Area
•	Designed AI-driven microservices that enhanced sales forecasting pipelines, improving accuracy by 35%.
•	Integrated third-party APIs and data workflows that supported multi-team sales insights in real time.
•	Rebuilt React-based dashboards, boosting user engagement by 25%.
•	Collaborated with data engineers to optimize query performance and model deployment within AWS.

### Code2040 Fellow @ Code2040
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States

### Fellow @ ColorStack
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States

### Software Engineering Fellow @ Headstarter AI
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
•	Built user management and chat systems in Python and React with optimized session storage.
•	Increased model reliability by 25% and deployment performance by 30% through workflow refactoring.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Piyata
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States
• Built cross-platform web and mobile app with Flutter/Dart, integrating Python backend and Node.js APIs, increasing data
handling efficiency by 20%.
• Implemented caching techniques, reducing app loading times by 15%, improving user experience and retention
• Key Technologies: Flutter, Dart, Python, Node.js, REST APIs, AWS, Version Control Systems,


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science (AI Concentration) and Business Information Systems
University of Rochester
Jan 2023 – Jan 2027

### CS Academy – Advanced Track in Computer Science and Programming
Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/eahishak
- Website: https://eahishakiye.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-01