# Sarim Abbas

> Software Engineer at Snowflake

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sarim

My interests lie at the intersection of engineering and design. I am interested in building products that bring others utility and joy.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Jan 2023 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States
Projects:
- Universal Search UI 
- Inline Copilot
- Chat API and UI demo at Snowflake Summit 2024
- Cortex Guard streaming mode 
- OpenAI compatible Chat Completions API
- Model RBAC
- Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) projects 

Technologies:
- React, TypeScript, Go, Java, Python, Snowflake SQL, CodeMirror

### Fellow @ Interact
Jan 2020 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Neeva
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States
Projects:
- Spaces / bookmarking
- NeevaAI - EOA (exactly one answer) citations
- Frontend performance: from webpack -> vite, pnpm, esbuild 
- Hard benefit redemptions (e.g. vpn, password manager)
- Marketing site homepage redesign
- Neeva Premium for i18n markets 
- Bias Buster - news slider from left to right leaning (framer motion)
- Generative images with stable diffusion 

Things i've spent time on: React, Figma, Go, TypeScript, Scylla, Python, prompt engineering

### Design Fellow @ Yale Center for Engineering, Innovation and Design (CEID)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Recruited as one of two design fellows to lead software innovation at Yale’s central makerspace
- Provided ML and web development expertise to affiliated CEID startups with workshops and office hours
- Built interactive dashboard for the Yale COVID Wastewater Project, featured on several news outlets
- Streamlined the CEID’s logistical processes, such as 3D printing queues and expense tracking with bespoke software

### Software Engineer @ Built
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New Haven, Connecticut, United States

### Co-Founder @ Thinkspaces
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | New Haven, Connecticut
- Led team of six engineers to a build a web platform (React, Firebase) for community of student entrepreneurs and their projects
- One of 11 teams accepted into Yale’s Accelerator, mentored by partners from Facebook, A16Z
- Sourced 50+ projects, and 300+ monthly users

### Student Ambassador @ Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Modernized CITY’s website and digital presence by enforcing accessibility and UX principles
- Streamlined scheduling by building a Zapier alternative for two-way sync of CITY’s Airtable with Google Calendar. The resulting work was open-sourced
- Prototyped interactive dashboard for CITY's new building, slated to open in 2020

### Research Assistant, Interactive Machines Group @ Yale University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New Haven, Connecticut
- Conducted research on safety and communication strategies for human-robot interaction in public spaces
- Prototyped no-code interface with projection mapping, Kinect and Unity to make robot surface reactive to user touch
- Tested and proposed a new servo controller to sense excessive force in cases of robot abuse, written in C++ (ROS)

### Frontend Engineer @ Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
- Developed new digital identity for Peabody Museum that reimagines visitor experience
- Introduced novel UX and accessibility, such as variable width CSS fonts, interactive SVG map

### Teaching Assistant @ CS50
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Yale University
Taught section of ~ 20 students about computing concepts. Mentored one-on-one, and at office hours, hackathon and project fair.

### Latitude Fellow @ The D. E. Shaw Group
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York
Part of the inaugural cohort of fellows. Explored the intersection of finance and technology. Met with and learned from leading academics and analysts.

### Student Tech at Student Technology Collaborative @ Yale University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- Diagnosed and repaired clients' computer software and hardware
- Exposed to diagnostics, networking, storage and displays
- Collaborated with other techs to ensure timely resolution of problems

### Software Engineering Intern at Social Robotics Lab @ Yale University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- Devised unit and integration tests for the Baxter Research Robot by Rethink Robotics
- Improved safety-critical part of codebase that controls the robot's electric and suction grippers 
- Acquired proficiency with the C++ language, Git, Robot Operating System (ROS) and computing concepts such as multithreading and object-oriented programming


## Education
### B.S in Computer Science
Yale University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Cyber Security in Development Economics and Literature
University of Cambridge
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018

### Sustainable Urban Management and Japanese Language
The University of Tokyo
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sarimabbas
- Website: https://sarimabbas.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/sarimabbas

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Last updated: 2026-03-22