Where does Zaid Qureshi work?

Zaid Qureshi is Founder of Uplift AI.

What companies did Zaid Qureshi found?

Zaid Qureshi founded Uplift AI.

Where did Zaid Qureshi go to school?

Zaid Qureshi studied at University of Ottawa (Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Software Engineering with Engineering Management); University of Toronto (Artificial Intelligence); University of Toronto (Certification, Enterprise Architecture).

Zaid Qureshi

Founder

Founder at Uplift AI

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedUplift AI · YC

About

Zaid Qureshi is the CTO at Uplift AI, where he works on voice models for regional languages. Previously, he designed guardrails features for AWS Bedrock.

Founder at Uplift AI YC S25

Intro paths

Zaid went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, Backing expeditions into the future — the partner who ran Uplift AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, Zaid can intro founders to Uplift AI's investors below.

Uplift AI's investors · 3

Indus Valley CapitalKarachi · $750K – $30M checks · since 2026 Moment Ventures, LlcPalo Alto · since 2026 Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Uplift AI

Hammad MalikFounder

Experience

Uplift AICo-Founder & CTOcurrent2024 — present
AmazonSenior Software Engineer2020 — 2024Seattle, Washington, United States
LearnlyFounder2021 — 2023Toronto, Canada Area
PaymentusSenior Software Engineer2016 — 2020Toronto, Canada Area
iQonsultingLead Technical Consultant (Contract)2018Toronto, Canada Area
Clearwater Clinical LimitedCloud Developer2015 — 2016Ottawa, Canada Area
Telepin SoftwareMobile Application Developer2015411 Legget Drive Suite 100 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Agile Governance ServicesTechnical Consultant & Full Stack Developer (Contract)2012 — 2015Toronto, Canada Area
WiConnect Corp.IT Specialist Intern2013100 King st west, Toronto

Skills & more

AnalyticsTechnical DesignSoftware Design PatternsMulti-Tenant ManagementTechnical VisionTechnical RequirementsProject TeamsData StructuresComputer ScienceMobile Application DevelopmentBusiness Process ImprovementStart-up Leadership

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User Experience (UX)User JourneysData ModelingData ArchitectureTechnical LeadershipScalabilityReinforcement LearningDistributed SystemsReliabilityLong-term VisionProblem SolvingOperational Excellence

Languages English · Punjabi · Urdu

Machine Learning — Coursera
Web Security and the OWASP Top 10: The Big Picture — Pluralsight
Web Security and the OWASP Top 10: The Big Picture — Pluralsight

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Zaid Qureshi?: Zaid Qureshi is the CTO at Uplift AI, where he works on voice models for regional languages. Previously, he designed guardrails features for AWS Bedrock.
Where does Zaid Qureshi work?: Zaid Qureshi is Founder of Uplift AI.
What companies did Zaid Qureshi found?: Zaid Qureshi founded Uplift AI.
Where did Zaid Qureshi go to school?: Zaid Qureshi studied at University of Ottawa (Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Software Engineering with Engineering Management); University of Toronto (Artificial Intelligence); University of Toronto (Certification, Enterprise Architecture).