• Supercal (Jan 2025 to present)
• Xiangqi (Jan2020 to present)
• Taleemabad (Sep 2023 to present)
• Power IT Company (Jul 2021 to Aug 2023)
• Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs, Lahore Chapter (Jan 2015 to Jan 2023)
• Jabberwock Ventures (Jan 2016 to Jul 2020)
• SastaTicket (Jun 2017 to Jun 2020)
• Punjab IT Board (Jan 2013 to Jan 2016)
• Environment Protection Fund (Jan 2015 to Jan 2018)

We started and grew Arbisoft from 0 to the highest watermark of 1000+ people over the last 18+ years. Along the way, we earned the respect of A-list customers who are market leaders in their respective verticals. This led to long term stable technology partnerships with the likes oF KAYAK, edX, MIT, Harvard, Insurify, Amazon, Indeed and many others. I believe we were able to do this because we built a culture that is widely respected as one of the best in the industry and one where people are heard, respected and encouraged. This gives us first dibs on top-tier talent in a country of nearly 250 million people. The culture is largely a result of us staying true to our core values of trust, effort, excellence, value-creation and collaboration.

Orthoclear completely reinvented how clear plastic braces are manufactured. Align’s process relied on stereo-lithography for the final step whereas orthoclear created a unique process to precisely mill base plates for position and orientation of teeth with posts, poured in epoxy. I joined as the Director of Engineering. Later on named the Person Most Knowledgeable for software side of OrthoClear.

At Stanford, I needed work so I could pay my way through grad school. Got really fortunate to find a gig as a Research Associate at the Stanford Medical Informatics. They needed a strong C++ programmer with background in Computer Graphics and fortunately I was a good match. Had an amazing two years working on the Virtual Soldier Project - a DARPA funded research to automatically triage bullet injuries. Our group was responsible for the geometric moedling of the tissue after a bullet wound. Working with dense tetrahedral meshes for approximation of the human tissue was not easy because computers had limited memory by today’s standards. We’d often end up loading parts of the mesh in memory to process and simulate the bullet wound. It was a lot of fun!

We eventually spun off our Align team into a new company named AlgoTrek and continued working for another year before I took off for Stanford.

Align was a truly groundbreaking company. It really disrupted the world of adult orthodontics by introducing custom designed invisible braces for tooth misalignment. The problem was so new that it required writing a custom CADD application from scratch just for dental models. I had an amazing 3 years working at Align. Was promoted to be the engineering manager of the team that eventually grew to nearly 20 people.