Kahtaf Alam
Head Of Engineering at OpenDataLabs
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKahtaf Alam is a Toronto-based software engineering leader with 9 years of experience, currently Head of Engineering at OpenDataLabs. He is passionate about security, data privacy, generative AI, and decentralization, and is the inventor of a patented non-custodial encryption/decryption technique. At Vana, he led cross-functional teams to build an API for personalized AI experiences and implemented an OAuth server to securely access user data for third-party apps. He also designed and deployed production-grade ML pipelines and APIs at ApplyBoard, and as Technical Lead at Vana led the rapid development of an AI image generation app that attracted over a million users. His career includes roles at IBM and AppCentrica, where he built scalable cloud, DevOps, and security-focused architectures. He earned a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto and collaborates with senior leadership to align product direction with privacy and security at scale.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
English, Bengali
Stackoverflow
463reputation
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Github Skills (82)
sailfishos10
openstreetmap9
api9
mapbox-navigation9
mapbox-gl9
null-safety9
tiles9
geojson9
in-scope9
geopackage9
opengl-es9
java9
vector-tiles9
nodejs9
swift8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vana-com/vana-satya-proof-template
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Template for creating proof tasks using Python and Gramine for secure computation
Contributions:1 review, 11 PRs, 10 pushes in 6 months
Kahtaf/playbook-deskclock
Dec 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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