Saad Khalid
CS @ McMasterU
SWE @ Scotiabank
Previously
Technology Consulting @ EY
Infrastructure Engineering @ Shopify
Backend dev @ Aviato
Core dev @ PadawanDAO
North American finalist in Microsoft's Imagine Cup
Re-implemented the U-Net paper
Shipped an anonymized chat app at Buildspace Nights and Weekends
Developed CNNs from first-principles. Work can be found here.
Current Projects
ultracontext.co
A workspace to scale human thinking — agents handle the busywork, you just make decisions
Agents
Documenting my self-directed learning journey into AI agents
Simple Autodiff
Autodiff implementation from first-principles
npager.com
Generate and share variable length briefing docs from a single prompt
aws-tui
Terminal UI for browsing AWS EC2, S3, and more
Links
Tool Shaped Objects12/02/2026
Signaling as a Service04/01/2026
Is thinking about stuff out of fashion?25/12/2025
Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds24/12/2025
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