# Tazik Shahjahan

> Software Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Ideaflow Inc.
Jan 2025 – Present

### F25 Fellow @ StartX
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Palo Alto

### Founder-in-Residence @ Ambitious Impact
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | London
Founding to Give
- Selected as 1 of 18 from 3000 applicants (<1% acceptance rate)

### Fellow @ ODF
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
On Deck '23

### Founding Engineer @ Womp Labs
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
Web dev and evals
- Backed by AI Grant (Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross) and Entrepreneur First

### Founding Engineer @ Bronco AI
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
AI agents for finance
- Backed by 8VC and YCombinator (W23)
- Second engineer

### Research Engineer @ Alljoined
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Co-authored world's largest EEG-to-ML decoding dataset (CVPR 2024)
- Backed by Khosla Ventures, Conviction, and Jeff Dean

### Software Engineer @ nference
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
AI tools for pathologists
- TIME's Top 100 HealthTech companies
- Series C health startup working with hospital systems including Mayo Clinic and Duke Health

### Software Developer @ Arctic Wolf
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
ETL pipelines and threat intelligence optimization
- Raised $500M+ from Lightspeed, Blue Owl, and Viking Global

### Research Staff @ Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Workflow automations
- Worked under Professor Sebastian Fischmeister (NSERC/Magna Industrial Research Chair)

### Software Engineer @ Dropbase (YC W20)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Backend and performance
- YCombinator (W2020)

### Software Developer @ Unyte Health Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Web dev

### Director of Editorial Board @ The Reckoner of MGCI
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Led editorial board of 10+ staff writers. Facilitated discussions, supervised articles, and edited style and copy.

### Staff Writer @ The Reckoner of MGCI
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
Edited and wrote opinion pieces (Toronto Star award-winning newspaper)
- Ontario’s Best High School Volunteer Newspaper
- Past: News Writer, Creative Writer


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo

### TOPS Program
Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute

### Manarat Dhaka International School & College

### S4
buildspace

### AI Startup School
Y Combinator


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tazik-shahjahan-539477195
- Website: https://github.com/taziksh

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JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tazik/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-05