Director of Engineering – AI Factory Lead, Telus

Saeed is an Executive Leader and AI Infrastructure pioneer with over 20 years experiences, where he served as head of Engineering and AI Factory, architecting and delivering one of the most consequential technology initiatives in Canadian history: Canada’s first and most advanced sovereign AI Factory.

From a blank page, he conceived, designed, and operationalized a full-stack AI Factory capable of supporting every type of AI workload: training, post-training, and inferencing, at hyperscaler-grade scale. Drawing on the NVIDIA five-layer AI Factory framework, he led the end-to-end architecture across Power, Infrastructure, Platform, Models, and Agentic Applications, and personally selected every OEM and technology partner across the stack.

Beyond infrastructure, he built a world-class AI ecosystem of strategic partnerships, with leading AI Labs and model providers including Cohere, Mistral, Moonshot, Google, and Anthropic; enterprise agentic platform providers including Palantir, Amdocs, ServiceNow, and Dataiku; confidential computing and AI Studio partners; positioning the TELUS AI Factory as Canada’s sovereign, one-stop AI platform for enterprises, AI-native startups, researchers, and government workloads.

Principal Engineer, Thinkific

Timothy is a Principal Engineer, Web Architect, and Generative AI technologist focused on the future of software development. His work spans online learning, medical research, high-performance web applications, and distributed systems, with a growing focus on agentic engineering. He designs harnesses that integrate AI throughout the software journey, from intent to production, exploring how AI can fundamentally change how software is conceived, built, and maintained.

Staff Software Engineer, Gusto

Staff Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience, specializing in leading high-impact projects that drive business growth and operational efficiency. At Gusto, he led the stabilization and maturation of the new headless CMS infrastructure, powering over 5,000 live pages and reducing content deployment times from hours to under a minute. He led initiatives that boosted visit-to-lead conversion rates by 15.5% and increased experiment completion velocity by 250%. Passionate about mentoring engineers and simplifying complex systems, he thrives in challenging environments where he can implement scalable solutions and make a lasting impact.

Fractional CTO, AI Platform, Top Floor Contracting

Engineering Leader | AI Solutions Architect | Scaling Expert

Focused on scaling engineering organizations from 0 to 25+ members and platforms from 0 to 2M+ users. Expertise in driving revenue-focused engineering and pioneering AI-first development workflows that reduce production bugs and accelerate release velocity.

Performance Highlights:

Scaled platform reach to 2M+ users via custom Web, iOS, and Android SDKs.

Reduced production bugs by 15% via AI-first workflows (Claude/Copilot/MCP).

Engineered Data Collection Services processing 12M+ daily events.

Optimized deployment frequency by 70% through automated CI/CD and cloud-native architecture.

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