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Taimoor Hassan

Proven founder and Software Engineer, First entrepreneurial venture at age 12, with 15+ successful ventures, $200K+ in combined revenue, and 13x profitable exits. Co-Founded 6 figure development agency/product Studio. Pursuing MS in Computer Science at Auburn University while mentoring startups.
Python Laravel Java C++ C Flutter Rust PHP Javascript HTML/CSS Wordpress Shopify Product Management GTM Technical Manager Growth Hacker Developer Relations English Urdu Hindi Punjabi

// Experience

2025

Startup Studio @ Auburn Uni Present
Software Engineer & App Developer
Auburn University
Feb. 2025 - Present

I worked as a Software Engineer & App Developer at Auburn University's Startup Studio, building MVPs and scalable prototypes for student-led ventures using modern web technologies, from "idea, building to growth".

  • My Friend Hazel
    An advanced AI-powered telephony companion for elderly individuals, providing empathetic, real-time conversational support. Leveraged vector databases for personalized knowledge retrieval, telephony integration, LLM model fine-tuning for empathetic dialogue. Implemented RAG pipelines, real-time speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and serverless functions for low-latency responses.
  • GrowIdeas.ai
    AI agents with vast rag based knowledge-base to help startups with law, business, marketing, etc efforts & AI generated highly fine-tuned, one-page pitch deck style landing pages for students & early startups.
  • Ride Sharing Project
    Develop Flutter application with an automated system that helps NGO to provide low waged workers with quick and easy access to free ride hailing services.
  • Lowder Center (University's Official Website)
    Built full-fledged University's official website for Lowder Center (Business College), with polished UI/UX and multiple pages and functionalities.

2024

SHIPCREW Paused
Founder
$120K+ revenue
2024 - Paused

We build & ship enterprise applications in 30-40 days. Crossed $120,000 in all-time agency revenue in 8 months. Helping clients generate $60,000+ in revenue overall, 3,000+ signups, and attract nearly $100K in angel investment overall (e.g one of the client brandjet.ai)

MOOSEMAIL.IO Acquired
Founder
2024-2025

A B2B lead-gen platform that delivers 40% more verified niche leads via AI-powered filtering across LinkedIn, Instagram & TikTok. Scaled to $40K+ in revenue in 3 months with 100% inbox rate and 80% open rates through domain warmups, 3x lead vetting, and precision cold email automation.

SHORTREEL.CC Acquired
Founder
2024-2025

AI-powered User-Generated Content (UGC) video creation platform enabling brands to generate high-quality video ads in minutes instead of days. Built with 100+ AI avatars, multi-language support (29 languages), and automated script generation.

EDDE.AI Acquired
Founder
2024-2025

Built an AI writing/research tool that generates essays/outlines/citations ~3× faster, with real-time grammar, structured outlining, APA/MLA/Chicago formatting, and a Homework Helper to improve productivity and accuracy.

2023

BOILERBAY Acquired
Founder
2023-2024

Premium Next.js SaaS starter kit enabling developers to launch full-featured apps. Including Auth, Payments, AI, and SEO, in hours, not weeks. Generated $30,000 in revenue within just 2 months, outpacing many competitors by delivering a 10× faster build-to-launch workflow. Included in ProductHunt top 7 performers of the day.

TROLLY.AI Acquired
Founder
2023-2024

AI-powered SEO platform for analysis, research, and content generation, scaled to $50,000 revenue and 6,000 users in 3 months by collaborating with 10+ SEO experts to craft high-performing backend prompts and most efficient auto-ranking outputs. Included in ProductHunt top 5 performers of the day.

CHATTY AI Acquired
Founder
2023-2024

Enabling businesses to create customizable AI chatbots for 24/7 automated support, resolving up to 70% of incoming inquiries instantly, reducing ticket volume, and freeing human agents for complex cases.

Securely embedded on company's data (FAQs, Docs, Pages, etc) to get instant, updated and efficient answers to the user's queries.

DOCER AI Acquired
Founder
2023-2024

AI-powered chat engine for interactive document conversations, leveraging vector databases and per-user agents with large context windows, integrated with a PDF viewer for real-time section highlighting. Included in ProductHunt top 10 performers of the day.

2022

MAGICPIC.AI Acquired
Founder
2022-2023

An AI-powered avatar and profile‑picture generator that produces 300+ unique, "crispy" avatars in a single batch, one single API for all avatar generation needs. Launched before Lensa came hype came into the market. Grown to 1000 users and $3000+ in 1 week. Included in ProductHunt top 7 performers of the day.

EARLYACQUIRE Acquired
Founder
2022-2023

Buy & Sell Early-Stage Startups with early traction, opportunity for investors to get ready made businesses. Included in ProductHunt top 5 performers of the day.

PRESET BUCKET Acquired
Founder
2023-2023

Resource marketplace for photographers, get hundreds of presets in just one click.

PASTRYSWAP Died
Founder
2022 - Died

Web3 Defi App PastrySwap for midcap coins. Providing ease to buy, sell, and swap coins.

2021

VOCALLY.AI Acquired
Founder
2021-2022

AI-powered platform that enables users to create, host, and distribute professional voiceovers in seconds, leveraging 400+ natural-sounding voices to accelerate content production compared to manual recording, for several different user personas (e.g voice for blogs, voice for e-newspaper, voice for youtube videos, voice for podcasts)

UNTAPPED | LETS POST Acquired
Founder
2021-2022

Huge bundle of resources related to untapped/under-represented websites with outstanding features & access to special offers only for untapped members, along with 10,000+ automated guest posting opportunities.

LACOS Loved
Founder
Cosmetics Startup
2021-2022

LACOS is a cosmetics startup that produces organic & natural skincare products.

2019

QUERYCITY AI Paused
Founder
Microsoft Imagine Cup Winner
2019 - Paused

AI‑powered student search engine that provides instant access to 400,000+ A‑Level and O‑Level exam solutions from all the exam zones, with auto fetching youtube videos related to questions and answers, cutting educational cost by 90% across South and Southeast Asia.

Launched a content marketplace connecting students, parents, and teachers to buy and sell student-written resources, expanding educational access and affordability in targeted regions.

  • Gained 1000+ downloads in the first week. Viral locally in district schools, academies, etc.
  • WON Microsoft Imagine Cup 2021 Nationals & Become World Finalise on this startup.
9BINARY Died
Founder
2019 - Died

Provides transformational digital technology solutions and services.

  • Web Development - E-commerce Development - No-Code Development
  • Marketing - Growth Hacking

2014-2016

SP PUBLISHERS Loved
Founder
2M+ monthly traffic
2014-2016

One of the biggest AdTech startups in Pakistan. Grown to 2 million per month in website traffic and a network of 1000+ traffic providers, brokering the traffic from providers to big adtech companies (Adsense, Revcontent, Taboola)

// Education

AUBURN UNIVERSITY

Master of Computer Science & Software Engineering

Auburn, AL | 2025 - Ongoing

  • Startups Mentor @ Startup Builders Bash by Auburn Business School.
  • Member of "Entrepreneurs at Auburn" Society
  • Director Media @ Pakistan Student's Association (elected)
  • Graduate Mentor

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES

Bachelor of Computer Science

Peshawar, Pakistan | 2020-2024

  • President of Province's biggest Olympiad (2024)
  • Vice President of Province's biggest Olympiad (2023)
  • Vice President of Google Developers Students Club (2023-24)
  • President of all extra-curricular's parent society "Takhleeq" (2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24)
  • President of "Welcome & Farewell Society" (2021-22)
  • Member Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador

BEACONHOUSE SCHOOL SYSTEM

Alevels

Gujranwala, Pakistan | 2018-2020

  • Appointed as event head to "Punjab Judo Federation" by state approval.
  • 2x Director Media & Marketing "Beaconfest" - biggest regional olympiad.
  • Board Member of Beaconhouse Media Team.

THE LEARNING HUB

Olevels

Gujranwala, Pakistan | 2016-2018

  • 2x Elected President of School's Student Council (75% votes - Majority)
  • Intra-School Tedex Speaker.
  • Debates, Speeches, SpellingBee, etc etc

// Research Papers

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QALB: Largest State-of-the-Art Urdu Large Language Model for 230M Speakers

Despite remarkable progress in large language models, Urdu—a language spoken by over 230 million people—remains critically underrepresented in modern NLP systems. We introduce Qalb, an Urdu language model developed through a two-stage approach: continued pre-training followed by supervised fine-tuning. Starting from LLaMA 3.1 8B, we perform continued pre-training on a dataset of 1.97 billion tokens, achieving state-of-the-art performance with a weighted average score of 90.34, outperforming the previous best model by 3.24 points and demonstrating a 44.64-point improvement over the base model.

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ScopeTags: Self-Knowledge Tokens for Reliable Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Multimodal Systems

ScopeTags is a retrieval-augmented generation framework using three token types, retrieval gating ([Ret]/[NoRet]), relevance scoring ([Rel]/[NoRel]), and consistency filtering ([Cst]). To enable multimodal models to autonomously decide when to retrieve external knowledge, filter irrelevant documents, and resolve contradictions. It achieves up to +8.2% improvements on knowledge-intensive VQA benchmarks by leveraging the model's self-knowledge as a governance signal for knowledge integration, eliminating the need for external annotations.

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Small Models, Large Impact: An SLM-Centric Playbook for Practical Agents

SLM-first (Small Language Model) agent architectures over LLM-centric designs, showing that compact models (<10B parameters) achieve superior latency (45ms vs 320ms), cost efficiency (10-30x cheaper), and schema compliance (94% vs 87%) for specialized agent tasks while maintaining comparable performance. It provides a 6-phase migration framework and identifies adoption barriers, demonstrating that SLMs enable economically sustainable, edge-deployable agent systems for enterprise applications.

// Bachelor's Final Year Project

FYP

Jaaoo — AI Travel Companion (Mobile App)

Built a Flutter/Firebase app that generates personalized itineraries via chat, recommending flights/hotels/activities with booking links; powered by a CrewAI + LangChain multi-agent planner, Falcon LLM, Pinecone semantic search, and Flask APIs aggregating real-time data from 30+ travel sources (Airbnb/Booking/TripAdvisor).

// Speaker Sessions

// Notable Mentions

REAL-TIME
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worldwide
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Countries
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🇲🇾 Malaysia (3)
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🇸🇬 Singapore (1)
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