# Muqsit Nawaz

> Founder @ Stealth | ex-TikTok | The Agentic Future

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/muqsit

I make AI do things

## Work Experience
### Founder @ Stealth AI Startup
Jan 2026 – Present | Palo Alto, CA

### Software Engineer (Applied AI Lead) @ TikTok
Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
- Leading the vision and execution of optimizing development and operational workflows across a suite of internal and external cloud products
- Building an industry leading high-throughput real-time data platform that ensure regional privacy compliance for business applications

### Software Engineer (Global Compliance) @ TikTok
Jan 2022 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
- Led R&D for privacy-preserving data-access solutions in Project Clover (https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-ie/project-clover-ireland)

### Software Engineer (US Privacy) @ TikTok
Jan 2021 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
- Core technical contributor and cross-functional collaboration leader for Pillar 2 and Pillar 5 of Project Texas (https://usds.tiktok.com/usds-about/)

### Research Assistant @ UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Santa Barbara, California
- Designed and developed a private machine learning service that employs lattice cryptography and secure enclaves.
- Reduced inference cost up to 385x by optimizing complex crytographic protocols for wide-area network transfers.
- Improved latency of prediction 16x by identifying bottlenecks via benchmarking and parallelizing across all cores.
- Automated distributed testing, collection and processing of experimental data by leveraging scripting in Python.

### Intern @ Cisco ThousandEyes
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Increased availability of the platform by devising an out-of-band replication strategy for handling terabytes of data.
- Designed and deployed microservices for real-time replication of SQL/NoSQL databases across different datacenters.
- Provided visibility into replication by integrating JMX metrics with Prometheus and creating Grafana dashboards.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
UC Santa Barbara

### Bootcamp in Theory of Computing
University of California, Berkeley

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Lahore University of Management Sciences


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31